Mezzeh Military Airport (also spelled ''Mazzeh'') is a
Syrian Air Force
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military air base
An air base (sometimes referred to as a military air base, military airfield, military airport, air station, naval air station, air force station, or air force base) is an aerodrome used as a military base by a military force for the operation ...
located in
Mezzeh
Mezzeh ( ar, ٱلْمَزَّة, al-Mazzah, also transcribed as al-Mazzah, el-Mezze, etc.) is a municipality in Damascus, Syria, due west of Kafr Sousa. It lies to the southwest of central Damascus, along the Mezzeh highway (also known as Fayez ...
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Damascus
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Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
, south-west of the old centre of Damascus. It has one runway of 8258 ft length, at elevation 2407 ft.
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Syrian Airfields
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reported in mid-2013 that it was "used by Syria's elite Republican Guards, Special Forces and Air Force Intelligence,