Fighters from the Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham armed group have swept into the city of Aleppo after a airyning insulting, forcing the Syrian army to disinclude from the northern city after eight years.
The defy attack is the most fervent combat seen in northweserious Syria since 2020, when Russia and Turkiye concurd to a deal to de-escatardy the dispute after regulatement forces seized areas previously deal withled by opposition fighters.
The regulatement forces have been in deal with of Aleppo since 2016, proximately a year after Russia meddled in help of Plivent Bashar al-Asdowncast.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its air force carried out strikes on Sunday in help of the country’s army, Russian recents agencies increateed.
Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham, earlier comprehendn as al-Nusra Front, is summarizeated a worryist group by the United States, Russia, Turkiye and some other states.
In Washington, the White House National Security Council said it was shutly watching the situation and had been in communicate with regional capitals over the last 48 hours.
Peaceful protests erupted agetst al-Asdowncast chaseing the 2011 Arab Spring protests. But soon the protests droped into aggression and tardyr turned into a proxy war after a expansivespread crackdown on opposition figures and protesters.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been finished and millions displaced since 2011. Most presentant combat stoped years ago after Iran and Russia helped al-Asdowncast’s regulatement triumph deal with of most land and all main cities. Rebels were pushed to the Idlib province bordering Turkiye.
After the army said it was preparing a counterattack, air raids aimed defy assembleings and convoys in the city, the pro-Damascus recentspaper Al-Watan increateed.
The Syrian military order said defys had attacked in huge numbers and from multiple honestions, prompting “our armed forces to carry out a redeployment operation aimed at reinforceing the defence lines in order to assimilate the attack, upgrasp the lives of civilians and sagederiers”.
The defys also took deal with of Aleppo airport, according to a statement by their operations room and a security source.
The combat revives the extfinished-simmering Syrian dispute as the expansiver region is roiled by wars in Israel’s war on Gaza and Lebanon. A endfire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect on Wednesday.
