Shayrat and Tiyas airbase ambush
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| Homs Province Ambush | |||||||
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| Part of the 2011 Syrian uprising | |||||||
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 Syrian Army | ||||||
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| 26 killed | 10 killed | ||||||
The Homs Province Ambush was an armed attack on a Syrian air force base in the Homs Province, between Homs and Palmyra[1] by the Free Syrian Army which killed 10 military personnel. Soldiers in the area managed to kill 26 of the the fleeing attackers.
The attack
On the morning of 25 November 2011 members of the Free Syrian army, (regular Syrian army defectors), attacked the air base. Scramble.nl indicates that possible locations of the attack are the Shayrat and Tiyas air bases. 10 Syrian military were killed, including "six elite military pilots" one technical officer and three other base personnel.[2] The Syrian military admitted the ambush, a spokesman on state television said that "An armed terrorist group undertook an evil assassination plot that martyred six pilots, a technical officer and three other personnel on an air force base between Homs and Palmyra," the spokesman vowed revenge and then he proceeded to claim that the "terrorist" attack was proof there was foreign involvement in the revolt against President Bashar al Assad's rule.[3]
The attack was claimed by the Free Syrian Army who said seven military pilots were killed in the ambush.[4]
