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Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its allies have intensified their attacks on the city of Hama in central Syria amid fierce resistance by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and local pro-government fighters.
The militants’ first attempt to reach the city was on November 30, just three days after launching their large-scale offensive from the Greater Idlib region, codenamed Operation Deterrence of Aggression. Moving quickly, the militants managed to break through the defenses of the SAA in the northern Hama countryside, reaching several key towns there including Khan Shaykhun.
On December 1, the SAA began organizing its defenses in the northern Hama countryside. The important towns of Suran, Halfaya, Taybat al-Imam, Maardis and Qalaat al-Madiq were said to be under its control at the time.
The situation deteriorated again on December 2, with HTS and its allies reaching the town of Qasr Abu Samra in the eastern Hama countryside.
Late on December 3, the militants managed to reach the northern outskirts of the city after capturing the towns of Maar Shahour and Kafraa. However, they failed to storm the strategic Zayn al-Abidin mount or break through SAA defenses in the town of Qamhana.
The SAA, backed by local fighters, launched a counter-attack early on December 4, recapturing both Maar Shahour and Kafraa. However, the militants re-entered the towns within a few hours.
Later on December 4, HTS and its allies renewed their attack in the eastern countryside of Hama reaching the key town of al-Sa’an, the town of Sarouj and its military camp as well as the town of Sheikh Hilal.
The militants also broke through the SAA defenses in the western countryside of Hama, capturing the towns of al-Majdal, Tal Bijou, al-Shir and Soubin in addition to the strategic town of Khattab.
Later in the day, HTS and its allies reached the eastern outskirts of Hama city, capturing the towns of Rasm al-Baghl, Awija, al-Ayur, and Kasoun al-Jabal. Another push was made towards the western outskirts of the city, with the towns of al-Shir, Soubin, Zour al-Jadeed and Khirbet al-Hijama reportedly falling into the hands of the militants.
Despite their rapid advance, the militants failed to storm Hama city, with reports of hundreds being killed, wounded or captured in an ambush by the SAA near the Zayn al-Abidin mount.
Separately, the SAA secured the evacuation of hundreds of cadets from the Assad Military Engineering School who were trapped near the town of al-Sufyra in the southern Aleppo countryside. This was done mainly with the help of the Russian military grouping in Syria.
All in all, the situation continues to deteriorate in Hama. Despite taking heavy losses, the militants will not likely stop after their success in Aleppo and Idlib.
By the afternoon of Dec. 5, HTS had captured the city of Hama, the fifth largest city in Syria.
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damascus is the next to fall. israel, us, turkey destroying syria
lets go boy!
doped up shithead hasbara next to fall – off its’ chair.
it’s disgusting but true. hts took three times more land than they were in a week ago. saa seems to be retreating back and forth; no resistance has been given.
bidet wants to divide syria between türkiye, isis cutthroats and us bootlicking kurds.
smo syrian rebels style
it’s obvious the population in those area supports the terrorists. the population is the problem.
well, it isn’t really. people are scared. and tired.
és um inteligente do caralho, ó filho da puta, conho de merda, a população fugiu.
homs is about to fall to the rebels, today or tomorrow. assad is history 🇷🇺=🏃♂️🤡 😆😆😆
and what’s the problem?
yes, and it all started with iran allowing its president to be killed in sabotaged helicipter via israeli-aserbaidshan plot, and be replaced by an obvious pro-israeli agent, pezeshkian. since that momet everything went to sh*t for iran, hezbollah, syria etc. coincidence?
thank you for responding to my completely pointless comments! please keep it up … heheheh
can’t wait until the iranians and hezbollah arrive. they’re going to eat these takfiri scum for breakfast.
🫵🤡 😆😆😆
this syrian army is useless guys in pickups with no air cover capture whole cities in hours
as the hebreo zelensky?
thank you for responding to my completely pointless comments! please keep it up… heheheh
makes you wonder why russia couldn’t do the same thing in ukraine
they could. but that won’t fiscally bleed the west
by have 10s of thousands of its troops die. look up us military junk yards the west still got plenty of weapons for ukraine
syrian army is useless 🤡
yes in this case, because they were all resolved by the military, everyone went back to normal life, and only some checkpoints were established, for so-called ceasefire monitoring. now who will vouluntiere to go and fight, who, and while saa, mobilizing some troops may take months and till then hts will reach damascus.
we saw this before, big fast gains. and we saw the saa assemble, and push them back out. the second verse, same as the first.
no point to damage the cities, the saa lose nothing trading ground for time.
according to india’s news the terrorist’s have taken the city . meanwhile california’s been hit by a 7 earthquake and western iran by a 5.7. curious. india maintains strong relations with north korea and putin congratulates modi for his make india great again campaign .
north korea, the country where everyone wants to live but only a few are allowed….. when was india great???
turks are a nomad people.
no one cares, erdogan’s piece of shit. greek bastard.
as the amerikunt dystopia cesspool declines crumbles into mulatto lgbt mental illness the ugly atheist burger species desperately attempt to disrupt civilized societies
assad should have said thank you to iran and lebanon for their help and offer the fighters the citizenship if they want to stay but tell them that attacking another country like isreal from his soil or supplying through his territory is a no go. this is basically the punishment of the isrealloving world with includes all g6, eu, nato, brics and sco members for beeing somewhat assisting in the attack on the most prescious of all world leaders.
one lee harvey oswald for erdogatt.
people will believe what the media. tells them to believe, george orwell. when the deceiving, fake and impostors, so call syrian rebels are really nothing more than americans cia, british mi6, israelis mssd. and turkish mit, well pay assassins, murderers and terrorists in disguise. america is rule by zionism, c.o.