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    The siege of Menagh Air Base (also spelled Menegh, Mannagh, or Minakh) was an armed confrontation between the Syrian Armed Forces and the Free Syrian Army...
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    RPG-29 (category Rocket-propelled grenade launchers of Russia)
    Iraqi insurgents (2003–11)  ISIL - At least one used during the Siege of Menagh Air Base Taliban (during 2013-2015) Syrian rebels Soviet Union M47 Dragon...
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    Menagh Military Air Base (or Minnigh airport, Minakh Air Base) (Arabic: قَاعِدَة مَطَار مِنِّغ, romanized: Qāʿidat Maṭār Minniḡ) is a Syrian Air Force...
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  • Roman Province of Syria. It was known as Minnica at this time. The Siege of Menagh Air Base took place here in 2013. The village was captured by the Syrian...
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  • Syrian Civil War Siege of Nubl and Al-Zahraa (2012–2016) – Syrian Civil War Siege of Menagh Air Base (2012–2013) – Syrian Civil War Siege of Bani Walid (2012)...
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    during the Siege of Menagh Air Base and Battle of Tabqa Airbase. According to his reasoning, the enemy would eventually be overwhelmed or run out of ammunition...
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  • Abu Omar al-Shishani (category Assassinated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant members)
    swarming and human wave tactics, most notably during the Siege of Menagh Air Base and Battle of Al-Tabqa airbase. He would use raw recruits for assaults...
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  • Kurdish Front (category Anti-government factions of the Syrian civil war)
    decline. In early 2013, the Kurdish Front participated in the Siege of Menagh Air Base along with other rebel groups. On 28 May 2013, when several thousand...
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  • Abu Usamah al-Maghrebi (category Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant members)
    Suleiman base, or Base 111, in western Aleppo. He commanded the capture of Menagh Military Airbase as part of the Siege of Menagh Air Base along with...
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  • severely wounded in the middle of January 2013, during the siege of Menagh Air Base, which resulted in him losing one of his legs and eventually his life...
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  • Saladin Ayubi Brigade (category Anti-government factions of the Syrian civil war)
    part in the Siege of Menagh Air Base, the Siege of Nubl and Al-Zahraa, and cooperated with the Azadî Battalion along the frontline south of Aleppo International...
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    support of Russian airstrikes. In response, rebel forces launched unsuccessful counteroffensives in September and October that failed to break the siege; in...
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    reported as taking part in the Siege of Menagh Air Base, near the Turkish border. On 9 November 2014, during the First Battle of Al-Shaykh Maskin, rebels captured...
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  • Al-Tawhid Brigade (category Organizations based in Asia designated as terrorist)
    rejected the authority of the Syrian National Coalition. On 14 November 2013, a Syrian Air Force airstrike bombarded an army base held by the al-Tawhid...
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    Liwa al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar (category Organizations based in Asia designated as terrorist)
    August 2013 capture of Menagh Air Base, which culminated in a SVBIED driven by two of their members killing and wounding many of the last remaining Syrian...
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  • Syrian Islamic Liberation Front (category Anti-government factions of the Syrian civil war)
    coalition of the Islamist rebel brigades that fought against the Syrian regime in the Syrian Civil War. At the end of 2012, it was one of the strongest...
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    Abdul Jabbar al-Oqaidi (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    2013. Retrieved 24 January 2013. "162 Dead in Syria as Army Claims Control of Aleppo Rebel Bastion". Naharnet. 8 August 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2013...
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  • the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), for example cooperating with ISIL's JAMWA sub-unit during the Siege of Menagh Air Base in rural Aleppo...
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  • Retrieved 14 January 2014. "'Terrorists have no passports,' French PM says of Syria air strikes". 12 October 2015. "The Tribal Factor in Syria's Rebellion"....
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    Northern Aleppo offensive (February 2016) (category Military operations of the Syrian civil war involving the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant)
    Heavy Russian air-strikes continued against Menagh throughout the following night. As of 8 February, a rebel handover of Menagh and its air base to the Kurdish...
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  • The siege of Deir ez-Zor was a large-scale siege imposed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against several districts in the city of Deir...
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  • least 150 people had died in this fighting. Rebel troops attacked Menagh air base. On 30 December, government planes bombed rebel positions after the...
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    The siege of Marawi (Filipino: Pagkubkob sa Marawi), also known as the Marawi crisis (Krisis sa Marawi) and the Battle of Marawi (Labanan sa Marawi),...
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    The siege of Fallujah was an offensive launched in February 2016 by the Iraqi government against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in al-Karmah...
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    The siege of Kobanî was launched by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on 13 September 2014, in order to capture the Kobanî Canton and its main city...
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  • near Menagh Air Base, close to the border with Turkey, using an FN-6 MANPADS. 4 March 2013 – Rebels shot down an Mil Mi-17 helicopter near Menagh airbase...
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    and ISIL captured Menagh Military Airbase after a 10-month siege. On 21 August a chemical attack took place in the Ghouta region of the Damascus countryside...
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    Kobani (redirect from History of Kobanî)
    the city was under siege by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Most of the eastern parts of the city were destroyed and most of the population fled...
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    Syrian forces break ISIS siege of Deir ez-Zor airfield after Russian air strike TASS, 9 September 2017. Syrian Army breaks ISIS’ siege on Deir Ezzor Airport...
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    drop grenades and other explosives. One ISIL drone base was struck and destroyed by two Royal Air Force Tornado using two Paveway IV guided bombs. ISIL...
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