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Russia has restarted military flights between its Hmeimim Air Base in Syria and Al-Khadim Air Base in eastern Libya after a five-month suspension, Italy’s Nova news agency has reported. A Russian Ilyushin Il-62M transport aircraft was seen departing from Al-Khadim for Hmeimim in Syria’s Latakia province, Moscow’s primary operational hub in the Middle East. The […]
Syrian authorities have said that their air forces have shot down what they described as “a hostile US surveillance aircraft in Latakia” province, the stronghold of Bachar al-Assad in north-west of Syria. The state-controlled Syrian news agency said “air defences brought down a hostile US surveillance plane in northern Latakia”, stressing that the hit aircraft […]