s on T4 airbase in the Syrian province of Homs."According to a statement carried by Fars News, two Israeli fighter jets attacked the Syrian army’s T4 military base in Homs province from the Lebanese airspace on Sunday night, killing and wounding over a dozen personnel, including 4 Iranian military advisers.
The Iranian casualties have been identified as Seyed Ammar Moussavi, Medi Lotfi Niyasar, Akbar Zawwar Jannati, Mehdi Dehqan Yazdeli. The Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday that Israeli F-15 fighter jets targeted Syria’s airbase.
| Y’all are certain they’re F-15s? |
F-15 war planes
Syrian state media, citing a military source, said on Monday that Israeli F-15 war planes
| Definitely F-15s, then. |
"The Israeli aggression on the T4 airport was carried out with F-15 planes that fired several missiles from above Lebanese land," state news agency SANA said. Russian military sources also said that two Israeli F-15 war planes had carried out strikes on a Syrian air base on Sunday.
Interfax cited the Russian Defence Ministry as saying the Israeli war planes had carried out the strikes from Lebanese air space, and that Syrian air defence systems had shot down five of eight missiles fired. Asked about the Russian statement, an Israeli military front man said he had no immediate comment.
Syrian state TV said on Monday the United States was suspected of striking an air base hours after US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
warned of a "big price to pay" as aid groups said dozens of people were killed by poison gas in Douma, a rebel-held town.
The US denied it was conducting air strikes in Syria. "At this time, the Department of Defense is not conducting air strikes in Syria," a Pentagon front man said.
"However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
we continue to closely watch the situation and support the ongoing diplomatic efforts to hold those who use chemical weapons, in Syria and otherwise, accountable."
Iranians killed
The strike killed 14 fighters, including allied Iranian forces, 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 Britannia-based war monitor.
Target of Syria base strike was likely Iranian drone base
[Ynet] Iranian drone shot down two months ago by Israel came out of the T-4 airbase, which was attacked overnight, while one of Iranian 'military advisers' killed in the attack was reportedly a member of a division that operates drones.
The target of an
early Monday at the T-4 airbase in Syria was apparently an Iranian drone base.While Russia, the United States, Syria and Iran have all attributed the strike to Israel, Jerusalem has neither confirmed nor denied it.
The T-4 complex in the eastern Homs province, 60km east of Palmyra, has recently been used by Iranian-backed militias fighting in Syria. It was built at a strategic location, close to Syrian gas fields, and was under ISIS control until the Syrian army, with backing from Russian forces, reclaimed it.
Two months ago, an Iranian drone coming out of the T-4 base was shot down by Israel. During a retaliatory IAF strike on the drone's point of origin in Syria, one Israeli F-16
| ... not an F-15... |
Mehdi Dehqan Yazdeli was reportedly a member of the Revolutionary Guards Aerospace Force, a division that operates drones, which further strengthen the assertion Iran's drones array in Syria was the target.
Syria initially accused the US of carrying out the strike in retaliation for an alleged chemical weapons attack Saturday in Douma, which was attributed to the Syrian regime. Washington denied the charges, and later confirmed Israel was behind the attack, and that the IDF informed the Americans of its intentions beforehand.
Russia too accused Israel of carrying out the airstrike, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying the air strike "was a dangerous development."
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"It was not us," armed forces front man Colonel Patrik Steiger told AFP.
| A nice report on this incident at the Long War Journal |
| And to wrap it up neatly with a bow, who better than the UN: |
[Ynet] The United Nation's special envoy to Syria said Monday the international body was unable to determine who was behind the strike on the T-4 base in Syria.
"The United States and La Belle France had specifically denied responsibility for that attack, while the Russian Federation and Syria had suggested that Israel was responsible. The United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
was unable to independently verify or assign responsibility for that attack, but it urged all parties to show restraint," Staffan de Mistura said.
