MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Militants from Jaysh al-Islam Islamist group have opened fire on a UN humanitarian convoy in Syria's Damacus province, seriously injuring a truck driver, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday.
"Militants of Jaysh al-Islam grouping, which had claimed to belong to the opposition, carried out shellings of the UN humanitarian convoy in Eastern Harasta (Damascus province). Driver of a vehicle, which had been rented for delivering humanitarian aid, has been seriously wounded," the ministry said in a daily bulletin posted on its website.
