Taftanaz Air Base is an airbase located south of
Taftanaz
Taftanaz ( ar, تَفْتَنَاز, Taftanāz, also spelled Teftanaz) is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Idlib Governorate, located 17 kilometers northeast of Idlib. Nearby localities include Ta'um and Binnish to the sou ...
,
Idlib Governorate and east of
Ta'um
Ta'um ( ar, طَعُوم, Ṭaʿūm, also spelled Tu'um or Taoum) is a village in northern Syria, administratively part of the Idlib Governorate, located northeast of Idlib. Nearby localities include Binnish to the southwest, al-Fu'ah to the we ...
, Idlib Governorate,
Syria.
Taftanaz was home to two squadrons of
Mil-8/17 Hip helicopters until its capture by the
Syrian Opposition.
Led by jihadist fighters from the
Al-Nusra Front and an
Ahrar ash-Sham
Harakat Ahrar al-Sham al-Islamiyya ( ar-at, حركة أحرار الشام الإسلامية, Ḥarakat Aḥrāru š-Šām al-Islāmiyah, lit=Islamic Movement of the Freemen of the Levant), commonly referred to as Ahrar al-Sham, is a coalition ...
battalion, Syrian rebels overran Taftanaz during the second week of January 2013.
On 6 February 2020, the
Turkish Armed Forces
The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF; tr, Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri, TSK) are the military forces of the Republic of Turkey. Turkish Armed Forces consist of the General Staff, the Land Forces, the Naval Forces and the Air Forces. The current Chi ...
constructed a military installation on the premises of the airbase, as
Syrian Government forces advanced toward it during the
2020 Northwestern Syria offensive. It was targeted with
airstrikes by the
Syrian Air Force
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just hours after being constructed.
On 2 March 2020, the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported a Syrian Government attack on Taftanaz Airport leaving one Turkish soldier dead and three wounded.
Dead and wounded in the ranks of the Turkish forces with artillery shelling of the regime forces in Idlib countryside (''In Arabic'')
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See also
* List of Syrian Air Force bases
This article lists air bases currently operated or used by the Syrian Arab Air Force. During the Syrian Civil War some bases were captured by rebels forces.
Military airbases
See also
* List of airports in Syria
* Syrian Arab Air Force
* Mil ...
References
External links
Rebel fighters, mostly Islamists, seize key Syrian air base
- The Washington Post
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