The Russian the defense ministry said Russia's air force had struck Syrian rebels in support of the Syrian army, Russian news agencies reported, amid the offensive of the forces opposing Syrian President Bashar Assad, reported Reuters, quoted by BTA.
The Russian state-run Center for Reconciliation of Warring Parties in Syria said the missile and bomb strikes were aimed at “concentrations of fighters, command posts, warehouses and artillery positions” in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib.
He added that around 300 rebel fighters were killed in the attacks.
The strikes in support of Assad, who is a close ally of Moscow, followed the rebels' most audacious attack in years. The frontline of the civil war has been largely frozen since 2020, Reuters points out.
The US administration has denied that the US was complicit in the attack by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham formations. in Syria. This was said in a statement by the spokesman for the National Security Council of the White House, Sean Savett.
The United States is “monitoring closely” events in Syria and “have been in contact with capitals in the region for the past 48 hours”. The White House spokesman claimed that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government's refusal to “participate in the political process”, as well as its “dependence on Russia and Iran, created the conditions” about the current crisis.
„At the same time, the United States is in no way involved in this offensive carried out by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which is designated as a terrorist organization,” the statement said.
Meanwhile, the League of Arab States stated the need to respect the unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria, in the northern part of which extremist formations carried out a large-scale, large-scale attack on a wide front.
„We are following the events in Syria with great concern and emphasize the need to respect the unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria,”, the pan-Arab organization said in a statement broadcast from Beirut on the Al Mayadeen TV channel.
„The events in Syria open up many possible scenarios, including chaos, which terrorist groups will use to resume their activities,”, the Arab League stressed.
On November 28, the command of the Syrian Armed Forces reported that on the morning of November 27, the formations of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham /Jabhat al-Nusra/ carried out a large-scale attack in the northern part of the Arab Republic.
According to the Syrian military, "terrorists tried to attack populated areas and military facilities in Syria and attacked positions of government forces". The President of Syria Bashar Assad in a conversation with the President of the UAE Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan stated that Syria is capable of defeating terrorists with the help of allies and friends.