Summary

Syrian insurgents, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), breached Aleppo on Friday after detonating two car bombs, marking the first rebel siege of the city since 2016.

The attack is part of a broader offensive launched Wednesday, with rebels seizing towns and villages en route to Syria’s second-largest city.

Fierce clashes with regime forces have killed at least 121 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Residents are fleeing western Aleppo amid missile fire, while state media reported insurgent attacks on Aleppo University that killed four, including two students.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 month ago

    “Assad regime bolstered by arms from Russia”

    A lot of Russian military were in Syria propping up Assad too.

    A good time for the rebels to attack as a lot of the Russians have probably gone home to fight the Ukrainians.

  • @[email protected]
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    51 month ago

    From the sound of it, they have half the city. And Russia is MIA. A real sign of weakness.

    • Cyclohexane
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      21 month ago

      They have the entire city now, which never previously happened at the peak of the war

  • RubberDuck
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    21 month ago

    Maybe Assad can buy some north Korean troops too.

    • @Telodzrum
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      81 month ago

      cope and mald over another authoritarian regime toppled by domestic freedom fighters.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      How am I supposed to take this seriously when it leads with “followed the Israeli regime’s defeats against resistance in … the Palestinian territories”? The only Israeli defeats I’ve been hearing about in Gaza are against their PR department.