Russian forces strike drone warehouse in Syria's Idlib: report

Russian military forces struck a drone warehouse in Syria's Idlib province, the Russian Interfax news agency reported, citing Rear Admiral Vadim Kulit, deputy head of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria, on Sunday.

"The Russian Aerospace Forces launched an air strike… against a warehouse of unmanned aerial vehicles of militants involved in shelling the positions of Syrian government troops," Kulit was quoted as saying.

No information about the scale of the damage or potential casualties was available.

The Syrian regime's army has blamed rebels, who it says are jihadists, for attacks on regime-held areas in Idlib and Aleppo provinces and denies indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas in territory under rebel control.

Opposition officials say both Russia and the regime are taking advantage of the world's preoccupation with the Gaza war to escalate pounding of a region where over three million inhabitants refuse to live under the authoritarian rule of President Bashar al-Assad.

(Reuters)