Foreign intervention in behalf of Syrian rebels U.S.-led intervention against ISIL On 18 January 2015, an Antonov An-26 operated by the Syrian Air Force crashed with no survivors while attempting to land at the besieged Abu al-Duhur military airport in Idlib Governorate, Syria.

[1] There were 35 people on board,[2] 30 Syrian soldiers[3] and 5 Iranian military experts.

[4][5] Syrian state media and the SOHR said that the crash was due to heavy fog or "technical issues"[2][6][3] and that the plane hit an electricity pylon.

[7] However, Al-Qaeda affiliated group Al-Nusra Front claimed that they shot it down.

The commander of the Syrian army division, Colonel Hussein Al-Yousif, was among those listed killed.