MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A group of about 100 heavily-armed al-Nusra Front militants have arrived in the past 24 hours in a Syria-Turkey border area in Latakia province, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday citing local witnesses.
"According to residents of the Kbana settlement in Latakia province, about 100 al-Nusra Front terrorists with heavy weaponry have arrived in an area near the Syrian-Turkish border," the ministry said in a daily bulletin posted on its website.