Moscow, SANA – Russian Defense Ministry announced that it has received information that terrorists from Jabhat al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham organizations are training teenage suicide bombers to carry out terrorist attacks in Damascus, Homs and Lattakia.
“According to our data from sources in Idleb, militants from among the terrorist groups Jabhat al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham formed a group of teenagers who underwent special training courses,” Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Thursday.
“They plan to use them for terrorist attacks against civilians in the governorates of Damascus, Homs and Lattakia,” he told journalists.
Konashenkov said the youngest of the suicide bombers is 14 years old and the eldest is 16.
Reem/H.Said