Armed Group adjacent to the de facto Syrian government attacked Russian air base yesterday Chimaimin the western part of the country, a non -governmental organization said.

The base, in the seaside province of Latakianturned to a shelter of thousands of people who were fled To be saved from the wave of violence with religious and national springs that left behind more than 1,700 dead in March – they were mainly members of the Alawite minority.

Former President Bashar al -Assad, who belongs to this minority and was overthrown in December by an alliance of radical Islamist rebels, resorted to Russiahis ally.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in Britain and is based on a network of sources in Syria, “Armed organization adjacent to the new authorities launched an attack on the base and some members (of it) managed to intrude it.”

The NGO, which gave no other clarification on the organization, spoke of “Heavy weapons clashes” and activation of “alarm sirens inside the base”.

He did not speak of victims.

There has been no responsibility.

‘The attack lasted an hour’he told the French eyewitness to an eyewitness who lives near the facility. ‘Heard of fire and shells’ while “They threw drones in the field.”According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, At least 2,500 Syrian citizens are inside the base.

Russia – the military support of which has partially allowed Mr Assad to remain in power for 14 years of civil war – does not want to lose its two bases of strategic importance in the Syrian territory. A Russian delegation went to Syria in January for contact with the new de facto authorities.

In February, the Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed, during his telephone conference with Syros a temporary president Ahmad al -Sarahhis support in ‘Unity and national sovereignty»Of Syria.

In December, Ahmad al -Sarah assured he didn’t want “Russia to leave Syria as some wish.”