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Russia drops Father of all Bombs on ISIS militants – killing dozens including top jihadi commanders

By FnF Desk | PUBLISHED: 12, Sep 2017, 14:41 pm IST | UPDATED: 13, Sep 2017, 7:47 am IST

Russia drops Father of all Bombs on ISIS militants – killing dozens including top jihadi commanders New Delhi: Russian military are believed to have dropped the 'father of all bombs' on top ISIS commanders.

Reports claim Vladimir Putin's armed forces have dropped the biggest ever non-nuclear bomb on ISIS leaders in Deir ez-Zor in Syria.

The Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power (ATBIP) is believed to have been deployed on September 7.

This is the same day the Russian Defence Ministry claimed in a Facebook post to have killed several top ISIS leaders.

The post said: "As a result of a precision air strike of the Russian air forces in the vicinity of Deir Ezzor city, a command post, communication centre and some 40 ISIS fighters have been killed."

Those said to have died in the air strike include Gulmurod Khalimov, who was trained in the US and is known as the 'minister of war'.

Leading commander Abu-Muhammad al-Shimali is also said to have been killed, reports.

The devastating device, known as the 'father of all bombs' release a huge smog of flammable gas over its target.

When it detonates it creates a deadly pressure wave that can easily crush hidden bunkers.

According to Alarabiya news network, Russian and US-led coalition air strikes on Tuesday killed 28 civilians in Syria’s eastern Deir al-Zor province, where rival offensives against the ISIS group are under way, a monitor said.

The province lies along Syria’s border with Iraq and is seen as a strategic prize by both Russian-backed Syrian troops and an alliance of Arab and Kurdish forces supported by the US-led air coalition.

On Tuesday, deadly coalition raids struck the village of Al-Shahabat, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

“Coalition air strikes killed 12 members of a single family, among them five children, in a village on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River,” said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.

He said fierce fighting between jihadists and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces was raging around IS-held Al-Shahabat, which lies around seven kilometres (four miles) away from the river.

The Euphrates slices across Deir al-Zor province diagonally.

Syrian government troops are fighting across the river on its western side as part of a separate assault that is backed by Moscow.

Russian air strikes on Tuesday hit a cluster of tents on the western banks of the Euphrates, killing “16 civilians including five children,” according to Abdel Rahman.

He said civilians had set up the tents on the edge of the Zaghir Shamiyah village after fleeing their homes fearing clashes.

The strikes follow three days of deadly suspected Russian raids in Deir al-Zor province that have killed dozens of civilians, according to the Observatory.

The US dropped the 'mother of all bombs' on ISIS tunnels in Afghanistan and it blasted a 1,000 foot hole in the ground with anyone nearby destroyed.
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