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CNN, 8 Sep. 2024
In April, Israel hit back at Iran with a limited strike on an air base in Isfahan that caused little damage.
—Henry Meyer and Marissa Newman / Bloomberg, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
After reports of the strike surfaced, Russian military bloggers criticized the military for not building hangars to protect the Su-57s, noting that protective hangars could be constructed at every air base for the price of one Su-57, according to the Institute for the Study of War.
—Brad Lendon, CNN, 10 June 2024
Yet rocket attacks resumed in July, and in August, five U.S. troops were wounded as two rockets slammed into the al-Asad air base.
—Daniel Depetris, TIME, 28 Sep. 2024
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His daughter was seen Sunday outside the Torrejon de Ardoz military air base in Madrid, after Gonzalez and his wife arrived on a Spanish military plane.
—CNN, 8 Sep. 2024
In April, Israel hit back at Iran with a limited strike on an air base in Isfahan that caused little damage.
—Henry Meyer and Marissa Newman / Bloomberg, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
After reports of the strike surfaced, Russian military bloggers criticized the military for not building hangars to protect the Su-57s, noting that protective hangars could be constructed at every air base for the price of one Su-57, according to the Institute for the Study of War.
—Brad Lendon, CNN, 10 June 2024
Yet rocket attacks resumed in July, and in August, five U.S. troops were wounded as two rockets slammed into the al-Asad air base.
—Daniel Depetris, TIME, 28 Sep. 2024
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