Time.news – Two Israeli missiles they fell on the Syrian city of Tartus. I target an air radar base where Iranian militias were present. The city that hosts Syria’s second largest port had already been targeted by Israeli forces last November to eliminate weapons depots belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Israeli newspapers recall.
Tartus is the seat of a Russian naval base. The facility is of strategic importance to Moscow as it represents a repair and refueling point for the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean.
For the past few years, the base has been used during the Russian military intervention in Syria to transport armaments and other supplies.
The city of Tartus, the Jewish Press recalls, had already been targeted by Israeli forces last November to eliminate arms depots belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.