Kuweires Military Airbase
Kuweires Air Base | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Owner | Syrian Armed Forces | ||||||||||
| Operator | Syrian Air Force | ||||||||||
| Location | Kuweires Sharqi, Aleppo Governorate | ||||||||||
| In use | Unknown-present | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°11′13″N 037°34′59″E / 36.18694°N 37.58306°ECoordinates: 36°11′13″N 037°34′59″E / 36.18694°N 37.58306°E | ||||||||||
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  Kuweires Air Base Location in Syria | |||||||||||
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The Kuweires Military Airbase is an airbase in Aleppo Governorate, Syria. It is situated to the northeast of Kuweires Sharqi, between As-Safira in the West and Dayr Hafir in the East. It was used for educational purposes mainly.
Siege of Kuweires Airbase
On 18 March 2014, it was reported that an effort entitled “Do Not Divide” [Wa La Tafaraqu] aimed to seize Kuweires Airbase. Rebel forces surrounded Kuweiris for more than a year but did not overrun it. However, as rebel infighting with ISIS intensified, ISIS apparently left (or was forced off) the battlefield and a new logo without its name was posted online by another brigade.[1] After being sieged by ISIS for more than two years it was freed by the Syrian army in November 2015 in the Kuweires offensive. Only 300 out of 1,100 soldiers survived the siege of the airbase.[2]
References
- ↑ Caris, Charlie (March 2014). The Siege of Aleppo?. Institute for the Study of War. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
- ↑ Inside the air base that held out against Isis for three years – and the death and destruction that was left behind