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The Russian Air Force carried out a significant number of airstrikes in the southern countryside of Aleppo on Monday, targeting Jabhat Al-Nusra's (Syrian Al-Qaeda group) primary hideouts inside the villages of Khan Touman, Tal Al-'Eiss, Al-Zorba, and Saraqib (northeast Idlib).

According to a source at the Hama Military Airport, the Russian Air Force conducted over 25 airstrikes in southern Aleppo on Monday, killing a large number of extremist rebels in the process.

Recently, the Russian Air Force has intensified their air raids in the southern Aleppo countryside in order to combat the large presence of extremist rebels occupying the abandoned villages on the Idlib-Aleppo border.