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Refugee Center Destroyed in Terrorist Mortar Attack in Homs - Syrian Army

© AFP 2023 / MAHMOUD TAHAA picture taken on September 30, 2015 shows damaged buildings and a minaret in the central Syrian town of Talbisseh in the Homs province. Russian warplanes carried out air strikes in three Syrian provinces, including Homs, along with regime aircraft on September 30, according to a Syrian security source
A picture taken on September 30, 2015 shows damaged buildings and a minaret in the central Syrian town of Talbisseh in the Homs province. Russian warplanes carried out air strikes in three Syrian provinces, including Homs, along with regime aircraft on September 30, according to a Syrian security source - Sputnik International
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The Syrian Armed Forces Chief of the General Staff said that a refugee center was destroyed in a terrorist mortar attack on the outskirts of Homs.

The number of casualties is unknown yet, Lt. General Ali Abdullah Ayyoub said Wednesday.

According to him, the Ahrar ash-Sham terrorist group carried out the attack.

"A refugee center was destroyed during the intense mortar fire carried out by Ahrar ash-Sham terrorist group's militants on the Ter Maela suburb on the outskirts of Homs. There are casualties, but their number is yet to be confirmed. At least 6 home-made high-explosive mines fired from mortars were registered," the senior Syrian military commander said.

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Earlier in October, the leader of the Ahrar ash-Sham, Chechen-born Abu Bakr al-Shishani, was reportedly killed by a Russian airstrike in the Syrian province of Homs.

Ahrar ash-Sham is the second largest terrorist group within the Jaish al-Fatah movement after the Nusra Front (Jabhat al-Nusra). In the spring of 2015, it was one of the militant groups which took over Ariha, Idlib, and Jisr al-Shughur in Syria's northwest, carrying out mass executions of locals.

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