(AFP) Strike on Syria air base kills 14, including Iranian forces: monitor

[TomSea]

Strike on Syria air base kills 14, including Iranian forces: monitor
AFP
April 09, 2018 08:31

BEIRUT: An early-morning strike on a Syrian government air base in the country's centre killed 14 fighters, including Iranian forces allied to the regime, a monitoring group said on Monday.

"At least 14 fighters were killed in the strike on the T-4 airport, among them Iranian forces," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor.

Syrian state media had earlier reported dead and wounded in the strike, without giving casualty figures.

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[TomSea]

So, we probably did not do this, I assume no.. but at this point, if we strike, let's not forget, our troops in that Kurd area could come under attack. That's why this is somewhat of a precarious situation. I mean, that might be the logical response from a Syrian-Iranian-Russian alliance.  Still, we will see.

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Syria, Russia accuse Israel over air strike, deny chemical attack
Reuters, Apr 9, 2018

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria and its main ally Russia blamed Israel for carrying out an attack on a Syrian air base near Homs on Monday which followed reports of a poison gas attack by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces on a rebel-held town.

Israel, which has struck Syrian army locations many times in the course of its neighbour’s seven-year-old civil war, has neither confirmed nor denied mounting the raid.  But Israeli officials said the Tiyas, or T-4, air base was being used by troops from Iran and that Israel would not accept such a presence in Syria by its arch foe.

The strike took place after a suspected chemical weapons attack on the rebel-held town of Douma which, according to one Syrian aid organisation, killed at least 60 people.


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