AMMAN: The Syrian army has taken full control of a small airbase in the eastern Aleppo countryside that had been held by Daesh, helped by heavy aerial bombing by Russian and Syrian airforces, pro-state media and an army source said on Saturday.
The al-Jarrah airport is located in the hardline militants´ remaining enclave in eastern Aleppo countryside, a region where they have mostly lost control to competing forces ranging from the Syrian army, US-backed Kurdish-led forces to Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels.
The airport was briefly stormed by the army´s elite forces last March, but the militants repelled that attack on the base they had held since 2014.
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