Menagh Air Base
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 Air Force aircraft in Menagh Airbase. | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Syrian Armed Forces | ||||||||||||||
| Operator |  Syrian Interim Government[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Menagh, Aleppo Governorate | ||||||||||||||
| In use | Unknown–present | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°31′19″N 37°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 (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 was home to the 4th Flying Training Squadron, equipped with MBB 223 Flamingo trainer aircraft and Mil Mi-8 helicopters.[2]
Syrian Civil War
[edit]The air base became a major target of the armed opposition in the Syrian Civil War's Battle of Aleppo.[3] 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.[4][5] It subsequently fell under control of the Al Nusra Front.[6] On 10 February 2016, the Syrian Democratic Forces from nearby Afrin captured the airbase, aided by Russian airstrikes.[7] After the Kurdish YPG captured the Menagh Air Base, the organization renamed it "Serok Apo Air Base", meaning "Leader Apo", in reference to Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the PKK.[8]
On 1 December 2024, Syrian opposition armed groups under the Dawn of Freedom Operations Room announced that they had taken control of the air base.[9]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "More than 200,000 Syrians trapped in Operation "Dawn of Freedom"... Communications cut off in northern Aleppo countryside and fears of massacres against Kurdish citizens" (in Arabic). SOHR. 1 December 2024. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Paraszczuk, Joanna (2013-08-07). "Syria Analysis: Which Insurgents Captured Menagh Airbase - & Who Led Them?". EA WorldView. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "YPG rename captured Syrian airbase after PKK leader Ocalan". Rudaw Media Network. 18 February 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
- ^ "قوات عملية "فجر الحرية" تعلن السيطرة على مدينة تل رفعت ومطار "منغ" (فيديو)". الجزيرة مباشر (in Arabic). Retrieved 2024-12-01.
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