Drone strike near Syria’s Aleppo airport kills two: Security official

2025-09-04 08:21:21

A Syrian security official said a drone strike near Aleppo airport on Thursday killed two people, with state media reporting the attack but without saying who may be behind it.

An AFP correspondent saw a vaporized car near the airport in Syria’s north, with shrapnel scattered around it.

Official news agency SANA reported that “a drone targeted a civilian car on the road to Aleppo International Airport.”

Citing the health ministry, it added that at least one person was killed.

Ali al-Youssef, an official with the interior ministry’s security forces, told AFP that “two people who were in the car” were killed.

It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack.

Both Israel and a US-led anti-extremist coalition have carried out repeated drone strikes in Syria, but there was no immediate comment from either of them.

The coalition has often struck northern Syria targeting ISIS group members.

In August, Syrian state television said coalition forces killed a senior ISIS leader in Atme, northwest Syria.