Brussels - Damascus: Europe and the Arabs - Agencies
The situation in Syria occupied the forefront of the news during the past few hours due to the developments taking place in the country due to the occurrence of a terrorist act, the penetration of airspace, and the monitoring of a number of earthquakes at almost the same time.
The Syrian Center for Earthquakes announced the registration of 9 weak and medium-intensity earthquakes during the past 24 hours.
The center stated - in a statement reported by the Syrian News Agency, SANA - that the network's seismic monitoring stations recorded 9 earthquakes, including an earthquake 22 km southwest of Tartous with a magnitude of 1.7 on the Richter scale, an earthquake 112 km west of Tartous with a magnitude of 2.0, and an earthquake 112 km west of Tartous with a magnitude of 2.0. Eastern Turkey with a magnitude of 3.3, and an earthquake in eastern Turkey north of Al-Hasakah with a magnitude of 187 km with a magnitude of 4.1, and a severe tremor in eastern Turkey northeastern Aleppo with a magnitude of 280 km with a magnitude of 5.2. According to what the Middle East News Agency reported on Friday.
The center added that an earthquake measuring 237 km northwest of Cyprus with a magnitude of 4.1 was recorded, an earthquake measuring 21 km southwest of Palmyra with a magnitude of 2.4, an earthquake measuring 109 km west-southwest of Latakia with a magnitude of 2.1, and an earthquake measuring 54 km northwest of Idlib. It has a magnitude of 2.2 on the Richter scale.
This comes while a number of Syrian soldiers were killed and others were injured, as a result of a terrorist attack targeting their bus southeast of the city of "Deir Ezzor".
The Syrian News Agency, SANA, quoted a military source as saying, "A terrorist group targeted a military bus yesterday evening in the Badia on the second station road, southeast of Deir Ezzor, which led to the death and injury of a number of soldiers."
For his part, Admiral Vadim Colette said that fighters and drones belonging to the so-called international coalition led by the United States violated Syrian airspace 18 times in one day.
General Collett, deputy head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation between the Warring Parties in Syria, said that the Al-Tanf region recorded 18 violations of Syrian airspace in one day, with three pairs of F-16 fighters, followed by four pairs of F-35 fighters, and one pair of Typhoon fighters. Two MQ-1C multi-purpose drones.
Earlier, two MQ-9 and LEAP drones belonging to the international "coalition" led by the United States, approached dangerously close to the Su-35 of the Russian Air Force in the skies of Syria.