Syrian Students Take Exams as Terrorists’ Mortar Attacks Continue
DAMASCUS (Tasnim) – Syrian high school students in the besieged twin Shiite towns of Fouaa and Kefraya took their year-end examinations as terrorists continue rocket attacks targeting civilians in the two towns.
According to Tasnim dispatches, Syrian authorities held another day of the high school examinations in Fouaa and Kefraya on the outskirts of the northern city of Idlib on Saturday.
Due to the blockade of the cities by terrorist groups, Syrian Army fighter jets dropped the packages of test sheets over the cities to be handed to students by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC).
Local sources told Tasnim that Jaish al-Fatah terror group on Saturday fired several rockets near a clinic in Fouaa, killing a child and injuring a number of civilians.
Russian media reports on Sunday quoted the country’s defense ministry as saying that terrorist shelling of Syrian cities took the lives of over 270 civilians within the last 24 hours.
The Al-Nusra Front, an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, has managed to recuperate “its forces” and “launched active warfare,” reads a June 4 bulletin by the Russian center for reconciliation of the opposing sides.
According to Russia’s Defense Ministry, the offensive was made possible due to the fact that Al-Nusra fighters share territory with the so-called “moderate opposition” and therefore have not been targeted by airstrikes.
Exploiting the opportunity, Al-Nusra together with Ahrar al-Sham carried out attacks in the Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood of Aleppo, which is controlled by Kurdish militia, destroying police headquarters, killing more than 40 people and injuring over 100 in the heavy fighting.