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\nA Russian general was killed and two other servicemen were wounded by a landmine explosion in Syria, the Russian defence ministry said.
\nIt said the attack took place in the southeast province of Deir Ezzor when a Russian military convoy was returning to the base after a \u201chumanitarian\u201d mission.
\nThe statement confirmed the three servicemen were wounded in the blast and that a \u201csenior military adviser with the rank of major general\u201d died during an evacuation while receiving medical treatment.
\nThousands of Russian troops are stationed across Syria in support of its army. Moscow\u2019s military intervention in 2015, four years into the Syrian conflict, helped keep President Bashar Al Assad in power and started a long, bloody reconquest of territory lost to rebels in the early stages of the war.
\nA joint Turkish-Russian patrol in northwest Syria\u2019s Idlib region was hit by a blast on Monday, but no troops were injured.
\nIn July, three Russian and several Turkish soldiers were wounded in Idlib when a joint military patrol was hit by an improvised explosive device. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2018attack\u2019 TLTP MOSCOW A Russian general was killed and two other servicemen were wounded by a landmine explosion in Syria, the Russian defence ministry said. It said the attack took place in the southeast province of Deir Ezzor when a Russian military convoy was returning to the base after a \u201chumanitarian\u201d mission. The statement confirmed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n