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Blast kills 31 regime fighters at Syria airbase: Monitor
[AlAhram] A munitions blast killed 31 regime and allied fighters at a military airport in central Syria on Saturday, a war monitor said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is based in Britannia and relies on a network of sources on the ground, said it was unclear what had caused the deadly explosion at the Shayrat airbase in Homs province.
The Times of Israel has a satellite photo of the base from 2016, for those interested.
But state news agency SANA reported that a "technical fault during the transport of expired ammunition" had killed an unspecified number of victims.
Quite possibly. Or perhaps the Israelis are making their feelings known about certain actions by Iran and its proxies at that site.
The Shayrat airbase is one of the regime's most significant installations in the centre of the country.

Iranian fighters -- who support the regime in Syria's ongoing civil war -- are based there, according to the Observatory.

Syria's war has killed more than 370,00 people since starting in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.

Report: About 20 Killed In Blast In Syrian Suburbs
They’ll have a better idea of casualties once all the dust clears, I s’pose.
[Jpost] About 20 Syrian soldiers, including officers, were killed in an explosion at Shirat airport in the eastern Homs suburbs. However, the Syrian Human Rights Monitoring Organization reported seven deaths at the site, including a militia affiliated with the Assad regime.

The Syrian News Agency claims the blast was caused by a technical malfunction. Syrian regime media also reported that "the blast was the result of an error in transferring an expired IED at the Shirat airport." It also claimed that the number of fatalities will likely increase.

Shirat Airport is considered one of the largest military airports in Syria. In April 2017, the site was attacked by the U.S. Air Force, which dispatched 59 tomahawk missiles towards the airport in an attempt to destroy aircraft allegedly used by the Syrian Army for chemical weapons in the Khan Sheikhun area.
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-08-04
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