BEIRUT, December 2. /TASS/. The Syrian army, in coordination with Russia's Aerospace Forces, has eliminated over 400 terrorists, some of them foreign, in strikes on the Aleppo and Idlib provinces in recent hours, the Arab republic’s army command reported.

"Precision strikes carried out by our armed forces in coordination with allied Russian forces eliminated more than 400 terrorists in the past few hours, with foreign citizens among them," the statement published on the Facebook (banned in Russia; owned by Meta Corporation, recognized as extremist in Russia) account of the Syrian Defense Ministry reads.

The command reiterated that rumors of militants taking Syrian territory under control were untrue, saying that the terrorists have already "started to abandon" their positions due to casualties suffered.

On the morning of November 27, the Jabhat al-Nusra extremist group (banned in Russia) carried out a large-scale attack in northern Syria. According to a statement by the Syrian Armed Forces’ Command, the terrorists attempted to attack villages and towns under the protection of the Syrian army and military facilities, continuing to target the positions of government forces. The Syrian army launched an operation to repel the raid. On November 30, the country’s armed forces’ command stated that the army was conducting strikes on the positions of terrorists who had managed to infiltrate many neighborhoods of the city of Aleppo. According to the Syrian Defense Ministry’s statement, the army was forced to reorganize its forces to protect the lives of civilians and troops and prepare for a counterattack.