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Militants led by al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) advanced closer to the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on November 28 as a part of their large-scale offensive against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), codenamed Operation Deterrence of Aggression.
Following heavy clashes with the SAA in the western Aleppo countryside, the militants managed to capture the towns of Khan al-Assal, Kafrnaha, Yaqed Al-Adas, and the 1st Engineers’ Village. Khan al-Assal is located around six kilometers away from the western entrance of Aleppo city.
The militants also advanced to the southwest of the city, capturing the town of al-Zarba which is located on the strategic M5 highway, the main route to Aleppo. The Sham FM pro-government radio station reported that the highway was closed by the SAA.
In the morning, HTS and its allies, including the Turkistan Islamic Party, Jama’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad and cluster of Turkey-backed armed factions, launched a separate assault in southern Idlib countryside and reportedly managed to capture the towns of Dadikh, Kafr Batikh, and Sheikh Ali, which are located along the M5.
Heavy clashes were also reported in the nearby town of Saraqib. However, the key town remains in the hands of the SAA and other pro-government factions.
Warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces and the Syrian Arab Air Force continued to target militants between the western Aleppo countryside and the southern Ilib countryside.
Meanwhile, reinforcements from the 25th Special Mission Forces Division, 4th Armored Division, the Republican Guards, the Special Mission Forces and other formations of the SAA have reportedly begun to arrive to the fronts in both Aleppo and Idlib.
At least 80 militants of HTS, 19 others from Turkey-backed factions and some 54 Syrian troops have been killed since the start of the offensive, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It is important to note that the London-based pro-opposition monitoring group was accused in the past of inflating SAA losses.
In addition, unverified reports said that a senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was killed by the militants while fighting alongside the SAA in he western Aleppo countryside.
The offensive was launched early on November 27 from the so-called Greater Idlib region, which includes Idlib city and parts of the governorates countryside as well as several towns in the northern Lattakia countryside, the northwestern Hamas countryside and the western countryside of Aleppo.
The Turkish military maintains a large presence in the region. However, HTS is the de-facto ruler. The terrorist group’s offensive put an end to a ceasefire agreement that was brokered by both Russia and Turkey on March 5 of 2020.
In the month leading to the offensive several reports talked about a plan by HTS and its allies to attack Aleppo city in order to take advantage of the distraction caused by the ongoing Israeli war on both the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Moreover, Russian intelligence warned that the secret services of the Kiev regime were actively providing support to militants in Greater Idlib.
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this justifies a very big counteroffensive by syria and reducing the buffer zone to idlib further as security for aleppo. we don’t need rebels setting up new hospitals and orphanages to defend in aleppo again
turkey needs to pay! and israel and us!
yes erdogan love war
they made more gains against this saa in these two days then the jews did their whole time fighting against hezbollah in lebanon. idf was going against a group that didn’t even have an air force and they didn’t take a single village.
i’d guess this was a huge reason hezbollah agreed to the cease fire. the combo of these sunni groups attacking syria and the israeli air force bombs might have been too much for them. sad for the people in gaza.
i think it was hillary clinton’s idea to back these sunni groups to take out assad as a way to help israel. looks like it’s kind of working for now. :(
may gaza and its people turn to ashes 💥🔥🌬🌪
why would you want that to happen? good thing they didn’t start the communist revolution and sell oxy cotin like the jews did.
i guess you’d hate them even then. or maybe you’d like them if they did that.
i never said i wanted it to happen, but regardless of what i want, that is what the dominant and beloved by the world “west” will do. in face of the sheer insanity humans/the world show, is better not to take anything seriously.
cool philosophy man.
a bit of non committal hubris from you there hasbo.very smug indeed 💩
stfu you bastard. seems you and youalikes forgot how many yours turn to ashes from 1941-1945? want a repeat?
these are wahhabi groups and other drugged monsters produced in ciae. nothing to do with islam and muslims.
how does sf determine if a comment needs approval..
the comment i tried posting is the damn truth!
you tried to post that the ussr caused the ukrainian war and that israel will win ?
the fall of aleppo is the start of the fall of syria as we know it, israeli plan on “changing meddle east map” is moving further, us and france working on to deploy their military in south of lebanon and if they manage with that plan that would be another step on the “changing meddle east map”
weldone boys. keep them busy.
this is the result of putin and erdoğan’s agreement, never trust russia otherwise you are dead!
i agree , sad true ! the weakest ally today in the world , they will always stab you in the back :( this is zionist conspiracy !
exactly, russia is like the usa, they are all run by the zionists, russia by berrl lazare, abrahamovic etc! makes you rely only on yourself a bit like iran, north korea
the turks are absolute duplicitous scum. pretending like they’re about to defend the people of gaza all the while scheming with the zios and the yanks behind everyone’s back.
if you have a leader, (p.. in) who demonstrates his stupidity, weakness and cowardice 1000 times over and you don’t remove him from office, don’t be surprised if the situation reaches a catastrophic point of no return.
okay, the important thing is that soon, another agreement mediated by the russians will be made, with the puppet turkish zionists
next time you’re ready to attack the rats, you’ll call off the attack, because russia made another deal with türkiye’s pig
dont you find it odd that those militants cares little about the muslims in palestine? meaning only one thing and you do the math.
yes when did they ever fight israel same with those white helmet terrorists they have been seen nowhere in gaza,
absolutely 💯 true.
this is the result of allowing the terrorists to leave allepo when it was liberated and they went on buses to idlib where they have been ever since, they could have been destroyed years ago.
what happened in conversation between putin and erdoğan on 24 november? less than 48 hours after that pro-turkish rebels start moving towards aleppo!
whole 250.000 saa with russian air support and thousands of hisbollah, shia and iran militias unable to defend against a few thousand idlib islamoterrorists? unable to defend only a 200km front line? what a big fcking joke and incompetence.
seems erdo and the islamists fooled again assad an putin, like kiew, usa and eu did with minsk1/2
erdoganist invaders must leave syria or face punishment for the actions of their terrorist puppets! syria will punish this criminal scum!
redneck .who will punish turkiye.assd ? he is toothless puppy..turkiye claiming back what’s rightfully belong to them…
these cia and mossad backed scum were part of the plan in lebanon, this operation no doubt was a way to destabilize syria
just bomb them to dust, current events show that arabs love to eat heavy bombs from the sky.
erdogan wants aleppo back in turkey. he and putin commiserated about how their predecessor empires had enjoyed hegemony over various neighboring areas. erdogan said he’d not try to connect nakhchivan to azerbaijan in his quest for greater turkmen rule if he could take back aleppo, and said he would let putin go to the dniper in exchange, staying out of that business. sorry assad.
islamic state of syria (iis) islamic state if iran
israel must invade syria until the turkey border now.
israel must be new neighbour of turkey.
or
syrian islamic state ( iss) is loading now.
this way syrian islamic state can not exist
al-qaeda=hts only name changed🍌