Militants of terrorist groups carried out four attacks in the Idlib de-escalation zone in the SAR. This was announced at a briefing by the deputy head of the Russian Center for the Reconciliation of the Warring Parties in the Arab Republic, Rear Oleg Oleg Gurinov.

In February, it was reported that the Syrian army repelled an attack by terrorists from the Jabhat al-Nusra group. The organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of theRussian Federation of 14.02.2003.