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Al-Dumayr Air Base  | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Syrian Armed Forces | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Syrian Arab Air Force | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Al-Dumayr, Rif Dimashq Governorate | ||||||||||||||
| In use | ?–present | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°36′35″N 36°44′56″E / 33.60972°N 36.74889°E | ||||||||||||||
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  Al-Dumayr Air Base Location in Syria | |||||||||||||||
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Al-Dumayr Air Base (Arabic: مطار الضمير العسكري) is a Syrian Arab Air Force installation located 40 kilometers north-east of Damascus, Syria.[1]
The airbase was used extensively by the Syrian Arab Air Forces and Iranian Armed Forces during the Syrian Civil War.
History
The base was used to support the army campaign on Eastern Ghouta. On February 22, 2018, Jaysh al-Islam bombed the airbase in an effort to weaken Syrian attacks on the rebel held enclave.[2]
On 21 June 2022, four Syrian soldiers were killed near the airbase following an ambush by Islamic State fighters.[3]
References
- ^ "Dumayr Air Base (OS61)". World Airport Codes.
- ^ "جيش الإسلام يستهدف مطار الضمير بقصف صاروخي" (in Arabic). نور سورية. 22 February 2018.
- ^ "After death of 26 soldiers and militiamen in separate attacks | Regime forces launch large-scale campaign targeting ISIS cells in southern Al-Raqqah". Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. 24 June 2022.
