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5 February – A drone attack against a U.S. military base in Deir ez-Zor Governorate kills seven Syrian Democratic Forces fighters and injures 18 others. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq claims responsibility. [ 5] 25 February – Two Hezbollah members are killed by an Israeli strike in al-Qusayr.
54–55 [ a] killed. On 2 February 2024, the United States Air Force launched a series of airstrikes targeting Iran 's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran-backed militia groups located in Iraq and Syria. The attack was launched in retaliation against a drone strike carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeting US troops in ...
Russian warplanes bombarded ISIS positions as retaliation. [20] On 2 February, U.S forces bombed Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria, killing at least 48 people. On the same day, five people were killed after ISIS militants attacked a Syrian military position near the 'third station' area of the Homs countryside.
Bashar al-Assad, Syrian President since 2000. The Syrian Civil War is an ongoing international armed conflict taking place in Syria. [24] The unrest began in the early spring of 2011 within the context of Arab Spring protests, with nationwide protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government, whose forces responded with violent crackdowns.
Il-76, An-24, An-26. The Syrian Air Force ( SyAF or SAF ), officially the Syrian Arab Air Force ( SyAAF or SAAF; Arabic: الْقُوَّاتُ الْجَوِّيَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ السُّورِيَّةُ, romanized : al-Quwwāt al-Jawwīyah al-ʿArabīyah as-Sūrīyah ), is the air force branch of the Syrian Armed Forces ...
Russian military police in Syria, September 2017. On 24 July, the Russian military announced that Russia had begun to deploy military police to Syria to monitor a cease-fire in two new safe (de-escalation) zones that had been envisaged in the plan on four safe zones, tentatively agreed upon by Russia, Iran, and Turkey in May, [351] [352] and ...
Russia expanding shadow fleet to evade Western oil sanctions – report. 05:30, Vishwam Sankaran. Russia is increasing the number of its secret fleet of oil ships to evade Western sanctions ...
The same day, Russian news agency Interfax reported that, as part of a surge in Russian military activity due to the intensification of the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, Russia deployed MiG-31K fighter jets with hypersonic Kinzhal missiles and long-range Tupolev Tu-22M strategic bombers to its Hmeimim air base on Syria'a Mediterranean coast.