The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Hmeimim Military Airbase witnesses the 12th attack of kind by drones in July 2018

Latakia Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: explosions were heard in the area of Jableh city in Latakia countryside, caused by new targeting by drones during their attempts to target Hmeimim Military Airbase, which is taken by the Russian forces as their main base on the Syria territory, and this is the 12th attack of kind to target Hmeimim Military Airbase since the beginning of July 2018, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday, that explosions were heard in the countryside of Jableh city in Latakia countryside, caused by targeting by the air defenses to drones that carried out a new attack on the main Russian military base in Syria, which is located in Hmeimim Military Airbase, which caused further material damage, but no information was reported about human losses or about the amount of the material losses.

The Syrian Observatory also published on the 24th of July, that explosions rocked in the past few hours, the area of Jableh in Latakia countryside, they were caused by rocket targeting to flying bodies in the skies of the area, and intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, that the explosions were caused by targeting by the missiles of the Russian air defenses, to drones while they were heading to target Hmeimim Military Airbase, which is the main Russian military base in Syria, and which was subjected to repeated targeting and targeting attempts in the past days and weeks, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored on the 21st of July 2018, new attacks by warplanes on Hmeimim Military Airbase, which is Russia’s main military base in Syria, where the air defenses targeted the drones amid information about shooting down a number of them, without information about casualties so far, and the SOHR published on the 20th of July 2018, that several explosions rocked Jableh area in Latakia countryside today evening, Friday the 20th of July 2018, it turned out that they were caused by new attacks by drones on the main Russian military base in Syria – Hmeimim Military Airbase, where the Russian air defenses managed to intercept the attacks and shot down a number of drones, without information about causing casualties, and this is the 8th attack on the Russian Base in July 2018, where the Syrian Observatory published on the 15th of July 2018, that several explosions rocked Jableh area in Latakia countryside today evening, the 15th of July 2018, caused by targeting by the Russian air defenses to new attacks by drones which try to target Hmeimim Airbase – the main Russian military base in Syria, where the Russian air defenses managed to shoot down a number of them, while no information about casualties was reported yet, and the Syrian Observatory published on the 7th of July 2018, that sounds of explosions were heard in the countryside of Latakia city, they were caused by targeting by the antiaircraft to objects believed to be drones while they were trying to target Hmeimim Military Airbase, which is taken by the Russian forces as their main base in Syria, where intersected sources confirmed that flying objects were targeted in the skies of Jableh area and the skies of the area of the military airbase, as a part of repeated operations to target Hmeimim Airbase and attempts to target it in the same way, which caused a continuous state of alertness by the Russian forces and the regime forces in the area, and this is the 6th attack in a week, where 6 similar attacks have targeted Hmeimim Military Airbase since the 1st of July 2018.