{"id":83206,"date":"2016-07-21T17:49:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T14:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=83206"},"modified":"2016-07-27T09:48:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T06:48:13","slug":"russian-long-range-bombers-hit-isis-targets-east-of-palmyra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=83206","title":{"rendered":"Russian long-range bombers hit ISIS targets east of Palmyra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, SANA &#8211; Six Russian Tu-22M3 long-range strategic bombers hit ISIS targets in Syria, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday, the Ministry said Russian bombers hit ISIS targets in al-Sukhnah, Arak and al-Tiba to the east of Tadmur (Palmyra) city in Homs countryside.<\/p>\n<p>Two command centers and camouflaged military equipment were destroyed and terrorists were killed in the airstrikes, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To improve the efficiency of the disclosure of terrorist group targets and the accuracy of determining their origin, reconnaissance was intensified in the area, including space-based reconnaissance. Due to intensified intelligence, new terrorist targets were detected and destroyed,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>It confirmed that the aircrafts returned safely to airfields in Russia after carrying out airstrikes, pointing out that Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets that took off from the Hmeimim airbase provided fighter cover to the long-range bombers.<\/p>\n<p>M. al-Frieh\/H. Said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, SANA &#8211; Six Russian Tu-22M3 long-range strategic bombers hit ISIS targets in Syria, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. In a statement on Thursday, the Ministry said Russian bombers hit ISIS targets in al-Sukhnah, Arak and al-Tiba to the east of Tadmur (Palmyra) city in Homs countryside. Two command centers and camouflaged military equipment &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987],"tags":[723,5582,10511,7158,3410],"class_list":["post-83206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news","tag-isis","tag-palmyra","tag-russian-bombers","tag-russian-defense-ministry","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}