Geolocation
Airwars assessment
The White Helmets reported that three children were killed in the countryside near Damascus following a ‘Russian airstrike.’ Al Etihad said the aircraft was a Russian Air Force Su-24. VDC named the children without specifying which nation’s aircraft were responsible. .
However Shaam News described the attack as having been the work of the Syrian regime aircraft.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Child
male
killed
Child
male
killed
Child
male
killed
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Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
According to the Kremlin “Russian aviation performed 36 combat sorties from the Hmeymim airbase engaging 49 ISIS facilities in the Hama, Idlib, Lattakia, Damascus and Aleppo provinces” on October 16th-17th 2015.