MOSCOW, April 5. /TASS/. Russia’s Aerospace Forces have carried out a strike on strongholds of militants who had exited the Al-Tanf area in Syria, Major General Yury Popov, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria, said.

"The Russian Aerospace Forces’ strikes have taken out two bases of militants who had left the Al-Tanf area and were holed up in hard-to-reach mountainous areas of the Amour Range in Homs province and al-Bishri in Deir ez-Zor province," Popov said during the briefing.

Drones belonging to the US-led counterterrorism coalition have violated the deconfliction protocols of December 9, 2019 seven times and made nine unauthorized incursions into Syria’s airspace by F-15 fighter jets, A-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft and an MC-12W intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft.

In addition, over the past 24 hours, five shelling attacks by the Jabhat al-Nusra and Turkistan Islamic Party terrorist groups (both are banned in Russia) against the Syrian government forces’ positions had been recorded in the Idlib de-escalation zone. A Syrian soldier was killed and three more were wounded in Latakia and Idlib provinces as a result of sniper fire opened by terrorists.