Tensions escalate in Syria as Turkish military target Aleppo military airport

Turkey said Sunday it was continuing a military operation against the Russian-backed Syrian regime in Syria’s northwestern Idlib region but insisted it did not wish to clash with Moscow.

Turkish News Agency Anadolu reported that the Turkish Armed Forces targeted the Syrian regime’s military airport in Aleppo, according to local sources on Sunday. Al-Nayrab military airport, on the outskirts of Aleppo city center, was known as one of the bases that the Assad regime frequently used in the attacks against the Turkish Armed Forces and civilians in Idlib, northwestern Syria.

Syria’s official news agency said that two of its warplanes were downed by Turkey in the airspace over the Idlib region on Sunday. The announcement came just after Syria said it was closing its airspace for flights and drones in the northwest of the country.

The Turkish Armed Forces used armed drones and fire support vehicles to target the airport, making it out of service, the sources said. The regime army transported aircraft and equipment to Al-Nayrab from the Kuweires military airport in eastern Aleppo, which was targeted by Turkish forces the previous day, it added.

Local sources said the regime’s range of action has been further restricted as the Al-Nayrab military airport has been made unusable.

 

Via Anadolu / France 24 /