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Agence France-Presse: Moscow says Russian strikes kill 120 ISIS fighters, over 60 foreign mercenaries in Syria

By Agence France-Presse.

Published Oct. 7, 2017 at 5:13 pm

Smoke rises from buildings following a reported strike on a rebel-held area of the Jobar district, east of the Syrian capital on Oct. 6.

Photo by AFP

MOSCOW – Some 120 ISIS fighters and 60 foreign mercenaries were killed in a series of Russian air strikes in Syria over the past 24 hours, the defence ministry in Moscow said on Saturday (Oct 7).

Puzzlingly, the ministry also said three senior ISIS – Islamic State in Iraq and Syria – commanders including Omar al-Shishani had been confirmed dead as a result of an earlier Russian strike.