Menagh Military Airbase
Menagh Military Air Base (or Minnigh airport, Minakh Air Base) (Arabic: قَاعِدَة مَطَار مِنِّغ, romanized: Qāʿidat Maṭār Minniḡ) is a Syrian Air Force installation located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south of Azaz, Aleppo Governorate, Syria near the village of Manaq.
Menagh Air Base قاعدة مطار منغ | |
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Flags of the Army of Revolutionaries and the Syrian Democratic Forces hang on the wreckage of a Syrian Arab Air Force aircraft in Menagh Military Airbase. | |
| Summary | |
| Airport type | Military |
| Owner | Syrian Armed Forces |
| Operator | Syrian Air Force |
| Location | Menagh, Aleppo Governorate |
| In use | Unknown–present |
| Coordinates | 36°31′19″N 037°2′28″E / 36.52194°N 37.04111°E |
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Menagh Air Base Location in Syria | |
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Menagh Air Base was home to the 4th Flying Training Squadron, equipped with MBB 223 Flamingo trainer aircraft and Mil Mi-8 helicopters.[1]
Syrian Civil War edit
The air base became a major target of the armed opposition in the Syrian Civil War's Battle of Aleppo.[2] The air base was under siege by opposition forces from August 2012 until it fell to the rebels and Islamists (including ISIL, the Northern Storm Brigade and Tawhid Brigades) on 6 August 2013.[3][4] It subsequently fell under control of the Al Nusra Front.[5] On 10 February 2016, the Syrian Democratic Forces from nearby Afrin captured the airbase, aided by Russian airstrikes.[6]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Minakh". Global Security.org. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
- ^ "If Syria's rebels can't take The Fortress, how can they take the capital?". The Independent. 24 January 2013. Archived from the original on 2022-05-12. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
- ^ "Syrian rebels capture military airport near Turkey". Reuters. 5 August 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
- ^ Joanna Paraszczuk. "Syria Analysis: Which Insurgents Captured Menagh Airbase — & Who Led Them?". EAWorldview.com. August 7, 2013.
- ^ Cockburn, Patrick (2020-07-07). War in the Age of Trump: The Defeat of ISIS, the Fall of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran. Verso Books. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-83976-042-6.
- ^ "Syrian air base 'seized by Kurds and their allies'". The Telegraph. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2016.