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Türkiye strongly condemned Israel’s latest airstrikes on Syria on Tuesday, while Syria and the United States also criticized the attacks on the Abu al-Duhur military airbase in Idlib province.
The strikes targeted the airbase’s runway early Tuesday, causing material damage but no reported casualties, according to Al-Ikhbariyya TV.
The attacks drew condemnation from Ankara, Damascus, and the U.S. envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry said it "strongly condemns" the Israeli airstrikes carried out early Tuesday against the Abu al-Duhur Military Airbase in the countryside of Idlib.
"Israel is recklessly continuing its attacks targeting Syria’s infrastructure and capabilities and violating its territorial integrity and unity," the ministry said in a statement.
Ankara called on the international community to adopt a more determined stance to end what it described as Israel’s increasingly aggressive attacks against Syria.
Türkiye also called for accountability over actions it said disregarded international law.
Syria strongly condemned the Israeli strikes, describing them as an “unjustified act of aggression” and a “flagrant violation” of its sovereignty and territorial integrity.
"The continuation of these Israeli attacks since Dec. 8, 2024, at a time when Syria has exercised restraint and worked to consolidate stability and avoid escalation, once again demonstrates the Israeli occupation’s attempts to undermine these efforts and drag the region toward further tension and instability," Syria’s Foreign Ministry said.
The ministry described the attack as a dangerous escalation that threatens security and stability in the region.
U.S. envoy to Syria Tom Barrack said Washington was “deeply concerned” about the Israeli airstrikes and described them as an “unnecessary escalation.”
"We are deeply concerned that the confirmed Israeli airstrikes on Abu al-Duhur Airbase constitute an unnecessary escalation that does not advance regional stability," Barrack said on X.
Barrack said the government of Ahmad al-Sharaa had neither adopted a predatory posture nor maintained proxy forces and had repeatedly indicated a preference for de-escalation with Israel.
"The United States has in the past, and will continue in the future, to host discussions to encourage diplomatic cadence over kinetic frustration for both nations," said Barrack, who is also the U.S. ambassador to Türkiye.
Following the fall of the Assad regime, Israel expanded its attacks across Syria, targeting weapons and missile depots as well as strategic military sites.
Israel had previously carried out attacks in Syria.
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