Rebels seized an air defence facility and attacked a military airport in eastern Syria on September 2, a monitoring group said, hitting back at an air force on which President Bashar Assad is increasingly relying to crush his opponents. The attacks in eastern oil-producing Deir Al-Zor province follow rebel strikes against military airports in the Aleppo and Idlib areas, close to the border with Turkey. Rebels in Deir Al-Zor overran an air defence building early yesterday, taking at least 16 captives and seizing an unknown number of anti-aircraft rockets, said Rami Abdulrahman of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Rebels also attacked the Hamdan military airbase at Albu Kamal, close to Syria’s eastern border with Iraq, but did not succeed in breaking into it.
Syria Rebels Target Assad Air Power
Rebels seized an air defence facility and attacked a military airport in eastern Syria on September 2, a monitoring group said, hitting back at an air force on which President Bashar Assad is increasingly relying to crush his opponents.
