Breaking news, November 3th, 2017

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack in New York. This is stated by the militants’ media resource. Let’s recall that on October 31, a citizen of Uzbekistan Sayfullo Saipov hit pedestrians in the central New York area of Manhattan, killing 8 people and injuring 12 others. The terrorist left a note in the car saying that he was attacking on behalf of ISIS. Also according to the FBI, about 90 videos and 4 thousand photos related to the Islamic State were found in Saipov’s mobile phone.

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According to the Russian Centre for the Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in the Syrian Arab Republic, dozens of thousands of refugees in the south of the country are deprived of humanitarian aid due to the fact that American military base in at-Tanfa has 55 kilometers restricted zone radius. At the same time, according to the local sources, there is no medical and humanitarian aid from the US in the area. The Center for the Reconciliation classified such actions as a gross violation of international law and a war crime. The representatives of Russia are planning to bring to the UN Security Council the issue of considering the situation with the Rukban camp.

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The Syrian army announced the complete release of Deir-ez-Zor from the ISIS militants. Today, the last districts of the city have passed under the control of the government. Previously, terrorists held positions in the areas of Rashidiya and al-Ardi, and also resisted in al-Badjana and Abu-Aded. Now all these areas are cleaned by the units of the «Tiger Force» and the 4th Mechanized Division of the Syrian Arab Army.

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The Western experts were confused by the fact that Russia already has a number of instant impact systems that are designed to solve the same tasks as nuclear weapons. If the United States only speculates about the prospect of creating such systems, Russia already has them and effectively uses them in Syria. We are talking about «Buratino», a Heavy Flamethrower System, which is mounted on the chassis of the T-72 tank. It has 24 barrels for 220-mm rockets with incendiary or thermobaric warheads. One round covers an area of 4 hectares, «burning» the territory with excessive pressure and fire, suffocating the opponents. Drones are used as «navigators» of these systems. «Buratino» is not a long-range weapon, its range of fire is from 3.5 to 6 km.

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According to the Ministry of Defense of Russia the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed over 950 terrorist sites in Syria last week. The aircrafts of Russian VKS conducted more than 390 sorties. This morning 6 long-range bombers Tu-22M3 Backfire delivered a group of air strike against the objects of the ISIS terrorists in the Syrian city of Abu-Kemal (Deir ez-Zor province). According to the Syrian media, the Syrian army completely freed the city of Deir ez-Zor from the ISIS militants. ANNA NEWS correspondents are in the combat formations of government troops and regularly report on air.

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According to the deputy commander of the operational command of the Republic Eduard Bazurin, the AFU have violated the ceasefire regime 272 times in the DPR over the past week and fired 1,743 artillery shells and mines. He specified that the areas of 22 front-line settlements of the Republic fell under the fire of the Ukrainian units. As a result of shelling by the AFU, one civilian and two DPR servicemen died.