Syria’s T-4 military base, known also as the Tiyas Air Base, reportedly came under attack late Sunday night, according to Arab sources.
Syrian regime forces claimed Israeli warplanes carried out the attack. There was no comment from the IDF.
“Our air defenses thwarted an Israeli aggression and destroyed two of the rockets that targeted the T-4 air base,” the SANA Syrian state news agency said in a statement, quoting a military source.
The other rockets in the strike “killed one soldier, critically wounded two others, and damaged an arms warehouse,” according to SANA.
If Israel was behind the attack, it would be the second such strike within 24 hours.
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“The Israeli missiles were able to cause several explosions in the eastern countryside of the Homs Governorate,” according to the Syrian Al-Masdar news outlet. “The Syrian air defense attempted to intercept the missiles, but some managed to hit their intended targets.”
Israeli Defense Forces attacked military targets in Syria in the wee hours of Sunday morning, killing 10 — three Syrian and seven Iranian and Hezbollah fighters — in retaliation for Syrian missile fire aimed at the Israeli Golan Heights on Saturday night.
Iranian forces and Hezbollah militia fighters are stationed at the T-4 air base in addition to Syria soldiers.
Last August, 14 people were killed in an air strike attributed by international sources to Israel’s Air Force targeting the T-4 air base in Homs, where the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps maintained a command and control center for military drone operations in the region, in addition to a weapons depot.
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According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, five were killed in this most recent attack, including one Syrian soldier.