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[12] [19] The rebels had also sent sleeper cells to infliltrate Aleppo city. [16] In contrast to the rebels, pro-government forces in Aleppo suffered from poor organization, extensive corruption, and poor morale. [12] [19] Regular Syrian Army units lacked supplies, were regarded as unreliable, and included many "ghost soldiers" in their
After a lightning advance in just a few days, rebels captured almost all of Aleppo, which is Syria's second-largest city. However, Assad in a speech Saturday vowed to defend the country's ...
Syrian opposition forces have taken control of much of the country’s second-largest city Aleppo after a lightning advance that killed dozens of government soldiers in a major challenge to ...
A view shows a damaged poster of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo after the Syrian army said that dozens of its soldiers had been killed in a major attack by rebels who swept into the ...
The East Aleppo offensive is an operation launched by the US-backed 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.
In the latter half of the day, HTS captured the villages of Kafr Basin, Arnaz and Al-Zarba in the western Aleppo countryside, and cut off the M5 highway. [10] The Syrian rebels have captured around 40 towns and villages in total by the end of the day. [25] A Russian airstrike killed fifteen civilians in Atarib in the
Aleppo, most of which had been captured by rebels in the early years of the Syrian civil war, was retaken by Syrian government forces backed by Russia in 2016 after a gruelling siege. Since then ...
On 27 November 2024, a coalition of Syrian revolutionary factions called the Military Operations Command [46] led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and supported by allied Turkish-backed groups [47] [48] [49] in the Syrian National Army (SNA) launched an offensive against the Ba'athist regime's armed forces in Idlib, Aleppo and Hama Governorates in Syria.