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Notable reinforcements arrived from several affiliated groups, including Hezbollah Iraq, the Popular Mobilization Forces, and the Fatemiyoun militia, concentrating their presence in the Al-Thalathaat region near the Iraq-Syria border. The deployed forces conducted nocturnal training exercises, including live-fire drills directed toward desert ...
The Syrian Desert (Arabic: بادية الشام Bādiyat Ash-Shām), also known as the North Arabian Desert, [1] the Jordanian steppe, or the Badiya, [2] is a region of desert, semi-desert, and steppe, covering about 500,000 square kilometers (200,000 square miles) of West Asia, including parts of northern Saudi Arabia, eastern Jordan, southern Syria, and western Iraq.
Map of the Iraq-Syria border. The Iraqi–Syrian border is the border between Syria and Iraq and runs for a total length of 599 km (372 mi) across Upper Mesopotamia and the Syrian desert, from the tripoint with Jordan in the south-west to the tripoint with Turkey in the north-east.
Beginning on 29 November 2024, southern Syrian opposition groups began assaults on Daraa Governorate and As-Suwayda Governorate in Southern Syria, along the nation's border with Jordan. The offensive was publicly announced as a coordinated effort with the Northwestern Syria offensive to implement a multi-front advance toward Damascus .
On 27 November 2024, a coalition of Syrian opposition groups called the Military Operations Command [41] led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allied Turkish-backed groups [42] [43] [44] in the Syrian National Army (SNA) launched an offensive against the pro-government Syrian Arab Army (SAA) forces in Idlib, Aleppo and Hama Governorates in Syria.
The following is a timeline of the Syrian civil war from November 2024. Information about aggregated casualty counts is found in casualties of the Syrian civil war.. On 27 November 2024, a coalition of Syrian opposition groups called the Military Operations Command [1] led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched a lightning offensive [2] against the pro-government Syrian Arab Army (SAA) forces ...
Evacuating Iranians headed towards Lebanon and Iraq. [129] [130] On 7/8 December, it was confirmed that Syrian forces withdrew from Homs, with rebels afterwards shown to be celebrating in the city. [56] This effectively cut Assad's forces, including those based from Damascus, from Syria's west coast, which houses the country's Russian bases. [131]
The city is essential to a key route linking eastern Syria to Iraq. However, in the hours following IS launched a counteroffensive and retook al-Bukamal, with the Syrian Free Army suffering significant casualties. [8] As of 10 May 2017, IS has maintained control over al-Bukamal and the key route linking Syria and Iraq.