The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights revealed About the identity of the “unknown” drone that was intercepted by the Syrian air defenses two days ago, noting that it belonged to Iraqi factions, and was shot down in the western Damascus countryside .
Following the incident, the Syrian regime’s Military Intelligence Division arrested two members of the Signal Battalion of a military corps in the western Damascus countryside, and also searched the phones of a large number of members of the battalion, according to sources who spoke to the Observatory .
According to the observatory’s sources, the air defenses tried to intercept the drone while it was flying over the Shayrat airport in the eastern Homs countryside, before it was shot down in the western Damascus countryside .
On Tuesday, November 5, the Syrian Observatory indicated that the regime’s air defenses intercepted an unknown drone flying in the airspace northwest of Al-Shayrat Military Airport in the eastern countryside of Homs .
Israel repelled three drone attacks last October, launched by Iraqi armed factions, the first on the 18th, the second on the 20th, and the third attack on the 23rd.
