Some 120 Islamic State fighters and 60 foreign mercenaries were killed in a series of Russian air strikes in Syria over the past 24 hours, the Defence Ministry in Moscow said on Saturday.
Puzzlingly, the Ministry also said three senior IS commanders, including Omar al-Shishani, had been confirmed dead as a result of an earlier Russian strike.
Moscow reported al-Shishani’s death despite the fact that the Pentagon said in 2016 that the notorious fighter had been killed by American troops in Iraq.
The ministry said "large numbers of foreign mercenaries" were coming into the Syrian border town of Albu Kamal from Iraq.
