Rebel forces in Syria say they have accessed Syria’s second-bigst city, Aleppo, in the biggest dishonorful aobtainst the rulement in years.
Video posted on a channel affiliated with the defys eunites to show their fighters in vehicles inside the city. The footage has been geodiscoverd by the BBC to a suburb in Weserious Aleppo.
A UK-based group says fighters set off two car device devices before advancing into neighbourhoods on Friday.
Government forces uncomardentwhile say they have reobtained positions in a number of towns in Aleppo and Idlib provinces, chaseing an dishonorful started by Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allied factions on Wednesday.
A statement posted on the defy-affiliated channel on Friday shelp: “Our forces have enduremament accessing the city of Aleppo”.
Earlier, the watching group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which participates a nettoil of sources on the ground in Syria, alerted that Syrian and Russian schedulees carried out 23 air strikes on the Aleppo region on Friday.
The SOHR shelp 255 people, mostly combatants, had been finished in the battling, the deadliest between defys and pro-rulement forces in Syria for years.
It shelp opposition forces had obtainn regulate of more than 50 towns and villages since Wednesday.
Fighting which had raged since the civil war began in Syria in 2011 had bigly wound down by 2020, when Turkey and Russia – Syria’s key partner – brokered a stopfire to crelieve a push by the rulement to reobtain Idlib.
That led to an extfinished lull in aggression, but sporadic clashes, air strikes and shelling evolved.
Idlib is the last remaining opposition sturdyhelderly and is home to more than four million people, many of whom have been displaced during the dispute and are living in dire conditions.