The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

October 2020 | Russian jets kill nearly 100 members of ISIS, al-Sham Corps and HTS, and missiles kill seven civilians

The Russian forces completed their 61th month of military operations in Syria. During the 1st month of the 6th year of Russia’s intervention in Syria, SOHR activists have documented civilian casualties by Russian airstrikes

On October 23, the Syrian Observatory documented the death of seven civilians and the injury of about 20 others, as a result of rockets fired by Russian forces stationed in Hmeimim base on a market and primitive refineries in the village of Al-Kusa near the city of Jarabulus within the areas held by Turkish-backed factions north-east of Aleppo.

During the 61th month of Russia’s military operations in Syria, SOHR activists have documented the killing of 89 ISIS members in Russian airstrikes on their positions in the Syrian desert, most of them were killed within the Aleppo-Hama-Raqqa triangle.

While 78 members of Al-Sham Corps, which is close to Turkey, were killed in Russian airstrikes on the Corps camp in Jabal al-Dawila area, northwest of Idlib, on October 26. Furthermore, Russian raids on HTS camp in al-Hamama area the northern countryside of Jisr al-Shughour killed for HTS members.

Between the 30th of September 2015 and the 30th of October 2020, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 20,464 persons. The breakdown of fatalities is as follows:

  • 8,661 civilians: 2,098 children under the age of eighteen, 1,317 females over the age of eighteen, 5,246 men and young people
  • 5,593 ISIS members
  • 6,210 fighters of rebel and Islamic Factions, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamic Turkestani Party, and fighters of Arab and foreign nationalities.

SOHR sources have reported that Russia used the “Thermite-type explosives” in their airstrikes, a substance composed of aluminium powder and iron oxide which causes burns as it continues to ignite for about 180 seconds; some of the bombs used by Russian jets on the Syrian territory were loaded with this substance.

It has been discovered that they are “RBK-500 ZAB 2.5 SM” cluster incendiary bombs each weighed about 500 kg (about 1100 pounds) and they were dropped by military aircraft. They carried anti-individuals and anti-vehicles small sized bombs of the type (AO 2.5 RTM), loaded with 50 to 110 small-sized bombs stuffed with “Thermite”, which outpour out of it when they explode; the range of this anti-individuals and anti-vehicles bombs reaches 20 to 30 meters.

HD Infographic: Human casualties of the Russian airstrikes over 60 months of the Russian involvement in Syria

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