Israel targeted a weapons depot close to Russia's largest airbase in the Middle East in a sharp escalation of the conflict in the MENA region.
![The Russian base at Hmeimim has been used to support Bashar al-Assad's regime in the Syrian conflict [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2022-07/GettyImages-1171376970.jpg?h=e27dfcf5&itok=2GO0F2em)
![Russia intervened in the Syrian conflict in 2015 [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/2022-04/GettyImages-1183207523.jpg?h=50844e28&itok=nDB1am4T)
![Hmeimim [TASS]](/sites/default/files/styles/image_156x88/public/media/images/87E352C9-B97E-418E-9955-F12FAB2F451E.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=ivZ_rzVb "Hmeimim [TASS]")
