CPVS: at least 500 terrorists transferred from Idlib to Latakia

The department said that significant militants are immigrants from foreign countries.

“To date, more than 3.5 thousand members of illegal armed groups from the terrorist organization“ Hayat Tahrir Ash-Sham ”* have already been concentrated in this area,” said Major General Alexei Bakin, head of the Central Military Command.

Earlier, the Central Command and Control Council said that a number of settlements in the provinces of Aleppo, Rakka and Hasek in Syria announced the restoration of the sovereignty of the ATS in their territory.

* “Jabhat al-Nusra” (“Jabhat Fath al-Sham”, “Front al-Nusra”, “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham”) - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated December 29, 2014.