Taftanaz Air Base is an airbase located south of Taftanaz,

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and east of Ta'um, Idlib Governorate,

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. Taftanaz was home to two squadrons of Mil-8/17 Hip helicopters until its capture by the

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. Led by fighters from the

Al-Nusra Front Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra or Jabhat Nusrat Ahl al-Sham, also known as Front for the Conquest of the Levant, and also later known as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham was a Salafi-jihadist organization that fought against Ba'athist Syria, Ba'athist ...

and an

Ahrar al-Sham Harakat Ahrar al-Sham al-Islamiyya (), commonly referred to as Ahrar al-Sham, was a coalition of multiple Sunni Islamist units that coalesced into a single brigade and later a division in order to fight against the Syrian Government led by Bas ...

battalion, Syrian rebels overran Taftanaz during the second week of January 2013. On 6 February 2020, the

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constructed a military installation on the premises of the airbase, as

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forces advanced toward it during the 2020 Northwestern Syria offensive. It was targeted with airstrikes by the

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just hours after being constructed. On 2 March 2020, the

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reported a Syrian Government attack on Taftanaz Airbase leaving one Turkish soldier dead and three wounded.Dead and wounded in the ranks of the Turkish forces with artillery shelling of the regime forces in Idlib countryside (''In Arabic'')
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Rebel fighters, mostly Islamists, seize key Syrian air base
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