Abu z-Zuhur military airfield
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The Abu z-Zuhur military airfield is located east of Abu z-Zuhur , Idlib Province .
Syrian civil war
The airfield has been besieged in the Syrian civil war since September 2012 by an Islamist alliance consisting of the jihadist-Salafist terrorist organization al-Nusra Front , the jihadist Jaish al-Fatah and the jihadist Islamic Turkestan Party . At the end of August 2015, it initially occupied the entrance area and finally conquered the entire airfield on September 9, 2015. After the capture, captured Syrian army soldiers were murdered on the airfield. 56 people were killed.
On January 9, 2018, the Syrian army and its allies, coming from the south, reached the airfield as part of an offensive. On January 20, 2018, the Syrian army regained control of the airport grounds.
Individual evidence
- ↑ world-airport-codes.com ; accessed on January 9, 2018
- ↑ Militants execute 56 Syrian regime soldiers at captured airbase The Telegraph, accessed on January 11, 2018
- ↑ focus.de: Turkey flies air strikes on terrorist militia IS ; accessed on January 9, 2018
- ^ Zeit.de: Islamists conquer the military airport in the Syrian province of Idlib on September 9, 2015; accessed on January 9, 2018
- ↑ independent.co.uk: Syria civil war: Islamist rebels 'execute 56 government troops' following capture of air base on September 19, 2015; accessed on January 9, 2018
- ↑ The wave of refugees in north-west Syria is growing ever larger Westfalenpost from January 10, 2018; accessed on January 10, 2018
- ↑ Rebel groups unleash counter-offensive against wide-scale military campaign in Syria's Idlib xinhuanet.com of January 11, 2018; accessed on January 11, 2018
- ↑ Xinhuanet.com: Syrian army fully captures key air base in Idlib province of January 20, 2018; accessed on January 21, 2018