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Syria blames Israel for airstrike on Homs province
On Tuesday evening, a missile strike hit military installations in the eastern part of Syrian Homs province, as reported by the Arab media, including the Syrian government’s news agency Sana.
According to Sana, the Syrian air defenses, deflecting "the Israeli aggression in eastern Homs, shot down some of the missiles before they reached their targets."
Translated from the veiled language of Syrian propaganda, this means that most, if not all, missiles hit the targets.
According to the …
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Syria: Israel was behind airstrike against military airport in Homs
Israel was behind the missile strike against the T-4 military airport situated in the eastern part of Syria’s Homs province, a source in the Syrian military command told the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on Wednesday.
“Israeli aircraft committed a new act of aggression against Syria, attacking the T-4 military airport from the Al-Tanf region bordering with Jordan and Iraq,” the report states. “Our anti-air defense systems repelled the missile strike, destroying several airborne enemy targets.” …
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US-led coalition planes strike Syrian positions in Homs
Two positions held by Syrian forces in the Homs Governorate were hit by missile strikes shortly before midnight on June 22, the Russian news outlet Daily Storm reports. The first strike targeted the village of Al-Halba, which lies south of Palmyra, and the second strike was directed further south, at Al-Qaryatayn, south-east of Homs. At least one Syrian soldier was killed and several were wounded. Sources report that the air strike was made by the US-led coalition in order to counter the Syrian …
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Israel strikes Syrian airbase in Homs province
According to the Syrian state agency SANA, Dabaa military airbase in the province of Homs was subjected to a missile attack. SANA does not report who carried out the missile strikes on the airbase.
At the same time, Syrian sources report that Israeli warplanes were seen crossing the Lebanese airspace in the direction of Homs. It is reported that Hezbollah and Iranian forces are stationed at the airbase.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), 6 missiles have been fired at …