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Syria’s defense ministry said dozens of soldiers have been killed in the Aleppo offensive. Rebel fighters prepare to topple the equestrian statue of Bassel-al-Assad, the older brother of ...
Syrian opposition tanks in or near Aleppo, 29 November 2024. On 29 November 2024, rebel forces approached the outskirts of Aleppo. They took Khalsa, Al-Rashidin and Khan Tuman, where the army abandoned four T-55 tanks. [38] The Syrian government was overwhelmed by the rebel offensive's speed, and could not organize a coordinated defense of ...
This meeting, Nour said, would be aimed at finding a longer-term solution to Syria's 13-year-old simmering civil war – in particular its underpinning by non-state actors such as Hezbollah at a ...
Eight years ago, Syria’s civil war shifted in President Bashar Al-Assad’s favor after a Russian blitzkrieg on Aleppo helped him regain control over the country’s second biggest city.
The Battle of Aleppo (Arabic: مَعْرَكَةُ حَلَبَ, romanized: Maʿrakat Ḥalab) was a major military confrontation in Aleppo, the largest city in Syria, [78] between the Syrian opposition (including the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other largely-Sunni groups, such as the Levant Front and the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front) [79 ...
The East Aleppo offensive is an operation launched by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in December 2024 against the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) to regain control of territory that was lost during the Manbij offensive and to advance from Dayr Hafir into the Tishrin Dam area.
Here’s a look at a seismic two weeks for the Middle East. Wednesday, Nov. 27: Rebel offensive begins. Armed opposition groups launch a large-scale attack on areas controlled by government forces in northwestern Syria and claim to have wrested control of over 15 villages from government forces in northwestern Aleppo province. The government ...
It’s primarily a result of “a profoundly fragile [Syrian] regime & fragmented ‘military,’” argued Charles Lister, the director of the Syria program at the Middle East Institute.