Khmeimim air base was built in mid-2015 adjacent to the Bassel Al-Assad International Airport to serve as "the strategic center of Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War".
空军基地建于2015年中期，毗邻巴塞勒·阿萨德国际机场，作为“ 俄罗斯反对伊斯兰国的军事行动的战略中心”。