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Several drones were intercepted early on May 21 over Russia’s Khmeimim Air Base on the Syrian coast, with no losses being reported.
The drone attack came just a day after a group of militants attempted to infiltrate the air base. Four to five attackers, allegedly all Uzbek nationals, attempted to storm Khmeimim in the morning of May 20. The attack began after several drones were shot down over the air base a few hours earlier.
The attackers managed to breach the fence surrounding the base before being gunned down by Russian forces. One was reportedly able to retreat. However, he was targeted with a rocket-propelled grenade. Also during the attack, Russian forces came under sniper fire, with unconfirmed reports of casualties.
The bodies of two of the attackers were recovered by Russian forces. Later, they were reportedly handed over to the forces of the Syrian Interim Government, who denied any advance knowledge or involvement in the attack.
Following the attack, Syrian government forces deployed large reinforcements around the air base, which resumed regular operations with aircraft taking off and landing.
Khmeimim is one of two facilities the Russian military maintains in areas controlled by the Syrian government, with the other being Tartus naval base further down along the coast. Moscow continues to engage with the Syrian government, but an agreement on the future of bases is yet to be reached.
Thousands of refugees have been taking shelter in Khmeimim and its outskirts since last March, when a government crackdown claimed the lives of more than 1,600 people, mostly members of the Alawite religious minority which makes up the majority of the coast’s population.
Since the deadly crackdown, the Russian bases in Khmeimim and Tartus have been attacked with drones more than once with no group claiming responsibility. The attack on May 21 was, however, the first time Russian forces have reportedly taken losses since the fall of the regime of former president Bashar al-Assad last December.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has not yet addressed the recent attacks, or confirmed the reports of any casualties in Khmeimim.
It is unclear how foreign militants managed to reach the air base without the knowledge of Syrian government forces. Damascus will have to answer many questions. As for Moscow, the demand for more strict security measures around Khmeimim and Tartus, and maybe on the wider coast, will become more essential.
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these are crazy wahhabi hordes and i pray to god every day that ghassan alian of the idf takes sweida and damascus from them. russia and iran are just plain traitorous ladies anyway. or maybe the idf just annexes sweida and damascus to israel and these hordes from a thousand years ago are left without a capital like germany had bonn as its capital.
the khazars in “israel” are just hordes from a thousand years ago. in russia ! understand your stupidity, when you want cannibalistic occupants out of russia to act against russia ! as long they have white skin, they cling to their fake jews, like glued.
i’m interested in what putler would do if one big, fat rocket fell on the base?
if russia hadn’t betrayed syria, assad’s army wouldn’t be behaving like a bunch of hello kitties. therefore, it would be right for the idf to take sweida and the entire golan heights for israel. then a beautiful canton should be created in israel in which all druze would be together and, just as in switzerland, individual cantons have different educational and linguistic characteristics.
more zio shit talk. all the atrocities in syria are 100% kosher.
do israeli druze and indian mercenaries eat bacon?
the swiss guard protects the pope, israel should grow a little as russia grew a little, ukraine was left without a piece of territory. then it would be interesting to watch hts and its allies, including russia, when syria is left without a piece of territory because all the druze join israel.
i would prefer if rami makhlouf annexed part of syria to hezbollah, but if that is not possible, it is also good israel and the israeli druze to annex part of syria.
it would definitely be nice if someone could tear damascus away from syria, i would prefer rami makhlouf, but if that can’t be done, i would also like the idf.
i hope rami makhlouf will be able to seize an even larger part of syria from hts than ghassan alian previously did.
the iranian and russian traitorous bullies would probably be thrilled if ghassan alian did something nice for the druze.
there is merchandise in the base and hts wants to sell human organs and prostitutes. htt ps:// http://www.zer ohedge.com /ge opolitic al/glo bal-sile nc e-a mid-hts- all ies -ta ke-alaw ite-wo men-se x-sla ves-sy ria
stop talking about aliens. ghasshole cannot save israel, how is he going to save druze
look, the israeli druze were burning tires and a garbage can and then alian came and told them the idf would take care of everything. because turkish alawites (i mean men who are weaker than women) are poor girls, we really can’t expect israeli druze to be poor girls either. teh druze had a protest in israel and ghassan alian attended the protest and promised to protect the druze in syria.
do not rely on jewish promises or promissary notes, son
yes, the butchers of gaza really, really, really do care about poor moslems, especially if it gives them an excuse to steal more land.
if he puts everyone in one country, it would be easier to secure both.
yes, yazidi women and girls were sold before by jolani’s hordes, but now alawite girls and women are commodities.
israel must annex sweida to israel so that the criminal hts horde from the middle ages will be left without a part of the country.
would that be the same hts that israel supported you moron?
isis is mossad and cia, mi6 and some elements of turkish mit. netanyahu and likud were the biggest supporters of hamas at one point. jews have no shame.
it would be nice if idf comandante ghassan alian really united all the druze into one entity similar to republika srpska, which would be part of israel. traitorous russia and traitorous trump should explain their support for hts terrorists.
this is absolutely necessary.
ukrainian forces are in idlib…..this is most likely them. they even went to afrika to fight russians. brits and banderas dressed as “ukrainians” of course. you have to be a sour loser brit or bandera to go to the ends of the earth to fight a lost cause
then it doesn’t matter if putin bows down to such terrorists, if terrorist psychopaths take over everything and even sell those women and children who are hiding in this unfortunate base. putin betrayed syria and hoped that the terrorists would leave ukraine (he was right about the terrorist trump), but he was wrong about all the other terrorists. h t t p s:// the c radle.co/arti cles/sy rias-st olen-daugh ters-th e-ht s-cam paign-to-ensl ave-ala wite-wom en
syrians betrayed syria. you think russia or iran “own” syria you think like an american jewish weasel who think everybody should “own” everybody else.
its very tempting to ask all idiots which are “religious” to continue to kill each other, but i sympathy with the palestinian, and the houthis. the fake jews worship satan, and so does “us” with “nine eleven”, built on trick movie.
judaism is by definition satanism. a satanic cult, moloch, baal child sacrifice worhsipping cult. jewish cannanites worshipped moloch thousands of years ago. the child sacrifice continues today. it is their ritual to kill goyim children. they want to rebuild the turd temple and sacrifice red cows on it. these are barbaric vermin that should have been eliminated long ago
lol another 2 neurons brain
what’s wrong with satan and devil worship? why shouldn’t we worship the devil? are enki and lucifer really that much worse than allah and yahweh? what was right when catholics killed hypatia? is it true that in mesopotamia, god’s people persecuted people who worshipped sin and ishtar? monotheism is the main reason for genocides, whether it is the biblical moses or the quran, muhammad and his allah, not to mention the pedophile vatican and the crusades.
monotheism is a curse. the most extreme and fundamentalist monotheism is judaism because the jews killed jesus for trying to reform judaism and they denounce islam for being a reformation on both judaism and christianity. the jews do not want to reform from their pathetic death supremacist cult from 2000 years ago – that is extremism like no other
the americans turks and israeli do what ever they wish, only the russians simp thanks to the gentle one in moscow.
if the traitor putler is not overthrown, russia will only have moscow, because the buryats, chechens, and yakuts will sooner or later realize that moscow is playing with much money, but only a few pennies are left for them.
now idf general ghassan alian should unite all the druze into (in israel) something like the republika srpska in bosnia. or israel should get some kind of druze canton that would have its own educational and cultural system. inside, they would be like, say, switzerland, which has four different languages and different education systems: french, german, italian, and romansh. but there is one switzerland, and switzerland can still offer its guard to the pope.
the swiss guard protects the pope and it is more than obvious that the differences between the cantons did not destroy switzerland, so israel should increase for all the druze just as russia increased for all the russians and ukraine was left without a piece of territory
kick your boots out of everywhere
iran is next syria the russia allies lol
iran is a bunch of fools because it cooperates with russia and instead of shapour bakhtiar, it chose corrupt ayatollahs who were instilled in them by the big enemy of iran – jimmy carter.
ruzzia cannot defend itself against terrorists lmfao. that’s how weak they are. taliban dared attacking us troops during afghanistan withdrawal. yet, ruzzia is doing nothing against terrorists.
why did catholics have to kill the scientist hypatia? monotheism is the cause of all evil, all unnecessary violence, and all crimes committed in the name of god. everything from the inquisition to the armenian genocide stems from moses and the bible. the quran is just a poorly written version of the bible, and that’s why this is happening in syria now. i hope china takes on the role of world policeman and bans god, buddhism is better because it has no god.
ukrainian nazi regime are in syria and sahel meanwhile russia is wiping out frontlines without a major offensive… i really don´t understand why putin doesn´t push for the dnieper with a real offensive! russia has at least 300k, probably more, 500k reservists, without declaring war… with contracts, not conscripts like ukraine… a major offensive coming both from north and donbass/zaporozhye will break the 400k maximum ukrainian “army’…
only yesterday (!!!) shitfront reported that “russia liquidated all terrorists who attacked khmeimim air base”…heeeeheeeeheeeheeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!
you dumb orc bastads!!!!
i think you have a basic understanding impairment. you should consult.