FSA victory Syrian Arab Republic Foreign intervention in behalf of Syrian rebels U.S.-led intervention against ISIL The Shayrat and Tiyas airbase ambush was an armed attack on Shayrat Airbase and the Tiyas Military Airbase in the Homs Governorate by the Free Syrian Army on 25 November 2011, during the Syrian civil war.

As the Syrian government had banned foreign journalists from entering the country, the exact location of the attack is unknown, although it was believed to have been at a military airbase in Homs Governorate between Homs and Palmyra,[1] possibly at the military airfield at 34°31′30″N 37°37′22″E / 34.52500°N 37.62278°E / 34.52500; 37.62278.

A spokesman on state television said that "an armed terrorist group undertook an evil assassination plot that martyred six pilots, a technical officer and three other personnel on an air force base between Homs and Palmyra."

The spokesman vowed revenge and claimed the attack was proof of foreign involvement in the uprising.

[3] The Free Syrian Army claimed seven military pilots were killed in the ambush.