Military Watch Magazine reports that militants of the Turkestan Islamic Party (banned in Russia) have become more active again in the Syrian province of Idlib. Government army forces foiled a major terrorist attack. This information is confirmed by Oleg Gurinov, deputy director of the Russian Center for the reconciliation of the belligerents in Syria.
In the province of Idlib, in the area of the settlements of Ed-Dana and Dzhubas, militants of the terrorist group “Islamic Party of Turkestan” (banned in the Russian Federation) twice tried to break into the territory controlled by government forces. Syrian soldier killed and one injured repelling militant attack
– said Oleg Gourinov.
MW recalls that terrorist groups supported by the Turkish government continue to operate successfully in the province of Idlib. One of the goals of Uyghur militants is to destabilize the situation in Xinjiang province. The magazine cites a statement by one of the militants about the use by extremists of a base in Syria, where they have access to Turkish weapons to prepare a military invasion of a Chinese province.
Idlib remains under the control of a council of several terrorist groups. The council is made up mainly of Turkish activists from China’s Uyghur ethnic minority, who have campaigned for decades, with widespread support from the Turkish state, to expel other ethnic groups from the westernmost province. of China, Xinjiang, and establish a jihadist state similar to the one we see today. northeast of Syria. Militants have been flown from Afghanistan and China to Syria via Turkey for more than a decade with the support and funding of Turkish intelligence services.
writes MW.
The magazine recalled that earlier in November the militants planned an attack on the Russian Khmeimim base. According to the author of the publication, supporting the terrorist training base in the province of Idlib is beneficial for Turkey and its NATO allies in order to maintain a threat against China and Russia in the Middle region. East. Earlier we wrote that the United States, in violation of all norms of international law, not only maintains its presence in Syria, but also arms militants from units not controlled by Damascus.
