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2023 Homs drone strike. On 5 October 2023, a Syrian military graduation ceremony at the Homs Military Academy was targeted by a drone strike, killing at least 89 people and injuring 277 others. [2][1] The attack followed increased clashes in the 'De-escalation Zone' located in northwestern Syria.
Russia has supported the administration of incumbent President Bashar al-Assad of Syria since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011: politically, with military aid, and (since September 2015) with direct military involvement. The 2015 deployment to Syria marked the first time since the end of the Cold War in 1991 that Russia entered an ...
Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war. Part of the foreign involvement in the Syrian civil war, and the war against the Islamic State. Top: Various military operations carried out via sea, air and land in Syria. Middle: Territorial map of the Syrian civil war in September 2015. Bottom: Current territorial map of the Syrian civil war.
The military official said a deconfliction phone line linking U.S. military personnel to Russian forces in Syria was used to let them know about the attack.
On 26 May, commander-in-chief of the Russian special forces in Syria, colonel Oleg Viktorovich Pitchvesti was killed by HTS artillery strikes on a government military post on the Al-Jeb Al-Ahmar frontline in the Latakia countryside. [4][5] Later in the day, Russian forces conducted their first airstrikes in Idlib Province since December ...
On 20 October 2021, multiple projectiles struck the Al-Tanf U.S. military base in Syrian opposition controlled territory, where members of the CJTF-OIR were training a Free Syrian Army unit known as Maghaweir al-Thowra. Although no injuries were sustained, the attack was unusually heavy—seemingly a mix of drone and rocket systems, with as ...
The Russian naval facility in Tartus is a leased military installation of the Russian Navy located on the northern edge of the sea port of the Syrian city of Tartus. Up until 2017, Russian official usage classified the installation as a Material-Technical Support Point (‹See Tfd› Russian: Пункт Mатериально ...
The Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war started on 30 September 2015, with 4,000 Russian military personnel being stationed in Syria. [1] The Russian forces also consisted of 25 strategic bombers, [2] 20 tactical bombers, [3] 12 attack bombers, [4] 8 fighter aircraft, [5][6] 16 attack helicopters [7][8] and various other aircraft. As of spring 2019, there have been 116 ...