Syria flag (flickr).
A series of anti-government protests broke out in the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, on December 7, as militants led by al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham launched an attack on the city of Homs in the central region.
Protests were spotted in the towns of al-Kiswa, Jaramana, Daraya, Moadamiyeh, and Qatana, which are all located to the south and west of Damascus.
While Syrian pro-opposition media reported withdrawals by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), a military official told the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency that “sleeper cells linked to the terrorist groups” were filming videos to spread around the capital.
It’s worth noting that the militants captured the southern governorate of al-Qunitra earlier in the day, and entered the governorate of Rif Dimashq. The towns of Zakia, Kanaker and Saasaa fell into the hands of the militants, who were said to be some 20-30 kilometers away from Damascus city center.
Meanwhile in Syria’s eastern region, the Syrian government appear to have lost complete control over the governorate of Deir Ezzor, with remaining SAA troops, numbered at around 1,600, withdrawing into Iraq.
The army also pulled out from vast parts of the eastern Homs countryside, including the ancient city of Palmyra. The fate of several key air bases that are located between the eastern Homs countryside and Rif Dimashq remain unclear.
Amid the escalation in southern and eastern Syria, HTS and its allies launched their attack on Homs city. Fierce clashes are reportedly taking place there, with the militants attempting to storm the city from its northern and eastern directions. So far, the SAA defenses there appear to be holding.
The escalation in Syria began on November 27, when HTS and its allies launched a large-scale offensive in the country’s northern and central region. So far, the militants have captured hundreds square kilometers, including all of Idlib governorate in addition to the cities of Aleppo and Hama. The Syrian government also lost control of most of the southern and all of the eastern regions.
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homs and damascus likely to fall tonight.
i hope the poor souls who are in human slaughterhouse saydnaya prison get out soon.
putin and assad are cucks
nazi finn likely to lick amerikunt peniz tonight
this guy is most likely a troll from european centre of excellence for countering hybrid threats which is one of the occupying forces here in finland. these trolls spam nato propaganda in all comment sections in our media.
putin, lavrov, peace deals with israel and turkey… putin is an idiot and nobody wants russia as an ally. i hope everybody understands what happened in syria as the last warning
putin should not have entered syrian conflict to begin with. if putin just left this mess, he would have saved billions of dollars and the war would have ended in the same result 10 years earlier.
more likely tomorrow late morning . it was a regime highly criminal irrecoverable. its fate could only end like this. great bravo to these revolutionaries and all praises to god the one
homs just fell. syrian troops are leaving the city, central prison was overrun and hts took control of northern and central districts.
and the worst part of this story it was made to happen from inside-out long before it became a “done-deal”!… merry xmas to all of the russian federation men and women 12 years ago that gave their lives only to have a traitor at the helm that betrayed them for money!…
since 2014 syria lost almost all it’s oil wells to isis then sdf. before that syria was oil exporter. since then syria was a country that does nothing and exports nothing and at constant state of war. of course the country was bound to fall.
so says the state sponsor of terrorism from tel aviv, washington and london aka al qaeda, al nusra, tarir al sham!…
i was hinting at the issue years ago when the saa and allies did nothing to secure the oil wells after lifting the siege at deit ez zor. the issue was not haken seriously, now you have the result
damascus fell. bashar run away. putin is going to have a new best friend in moscow soon. all russians, welcome your great warrior at the moscow airport soon.
you got it right comrade. assad has fled the country. the era of syrian dictatorship has come to an end, which means, russia will now leave latakia and tartus and no more iranian backing, at least for the time being
welcome to jihadi dictatorship
what a mess again.
iranian treason.
why iran? who had airbade in khmeimim and prevented syria to shot down israeli warplanes? was it iran or russia ?
grow up .go and read the history of who put khoimenei in and then read their history and realize who put them in .then remember your basic grade 3 social.srudies washington’s cradled between the commonwealth of virgin i and maryland
blame putin and lavrov and their strategic 4d chess with turkey and hts. kursk 2 but this time in strategic scale.
remind me, but, who is the president of syria? so why are you blaming the president and foreign secretary of russia? who funds ned/usaid/blackrock goons? not president putin. ironically the western tax payer are their sponsors, courtesy of the idiots they elect.
nothings what it seems .don’t be deceived by theatre of operations. it is crafted with intentions.
putin and assad are cucks
ukraine will have around 500.000 new volunteers. russia has been bombing syrian cities, hospitals and killing syrian women and children for 10 years. i bet syrians are more than happy to return the favour.
fuck off,foxking israeli antichrist slave focker
oh you’re the alisky styled trollope .perversity .
sure kkkkkk why the “mighty” finns don’t help ukraine? invade russia? don’t you? nazi scum… stalin didn’t kill enough of you… but be calm. finns will be dead in 5 minutes in nato x russia war… no worry… btw, i see a lot o finno-ugric monsters that fighted as “mercs”, rotting in ex-ukraine… do you want the pics? i love see dead nazis!
but i am serious. with very few amount of money syrians would be more than happy to fight for ukraine. if they get to use drones to drop bombs on the same soldiers who killed their civilians, they would do it for free.
i dont have anything against russians. russia didnt bomb finnish hospitals for 80 years, so i have no need to kill russian soldiers. my great grandfather killed already dozens of them.
you have a big mouth and that’s all what you are.
i get the hate of the poles, galicians and the baltics for russia. but whats the reasoning of the finns?
usa told him who to hate….idiots beyond.
@kotromaniac didn t you know about karelia. soviet union raided finland and stole karelia, murdering thousands of finns. the leader of azov battalion, denis prokopenko is a finnish origin guy. obviously you not know much about russian or else history dont you?
the sowjets are really a gift that keeps giving. blame the russians for that is like blaming the countries napoleon occupied for what he did. sowjets killed more russians then anyone else but sure blame them for what hebrews and a georgian did.
is that your new handle “snow den”? what drivel…
ur grandfather didn’t know how to fire a gun…you stupid finnish subhuman
the mighty finland could be destroyed with only one nuke. in helsingfors! population smaller than sankt petersburg and declining… what pathetic beings nato created! kkkkkkkk
i need to correct you. whole russia could be destroyed because of one nuke they shot to finland.
you guys said, finland didnt need nato, but you yourselves are proving that wong. it is good to have friend with nukes, when we have this trigger friendly neighbour.
nobody waste nuke on inferior finkland—404 nation
the russian people should stop promissing things their leaders will not follow through with it. i have no bad feelings towards russia but come on it gets comincal ali vibes. you are 120 mio people you cant fight half a planet who is dedicated to serve the west while the rest looks on a deal by deal base what suits them better. russia has 0 real supporters in the world.
150 million …..stupid
they have not bombed one terrorist scumbag? you forgot the puppy farms you scumbag.
when you bomb hospitals and destroy whole cities, demolish tens of thousands of homes and kill thousands of civilians.. i must give you credit. they must have hit one terrorist also.
normally finnish people are not outspoken liars, you seem to be a major asshole in a otherwise great country.
all ukrapi like finn nazi–stupid uncivilized envious amerikunt colony
are you guys all under 15yo, or mentally challenged?
it was very funny back then when finland joined nato. as if nato would give a shit for finland, defend a 1000km border in the infinite forests of the north. but hey, cool that you now pay for american weapons! i tell you a secret: this is what nato is all about. and as long as there are idiots like you, our business goes on!
fake, these “volunteers” will be too busy with sectarian violence where they are, they don’t even care about russia, it isn’t on their mind. ukraine is alone and losing
you are as finnish as the rabbi of jerusalem.
oikeesti? onko jerusalemin rabbi suomalainen?
english translation.. really? the rabbi of jerusalem is a finn?
i wonder when will russia start bombing morons like you are. i see it comiing. enjoy.
sitä toivon minäkin. maamme on miehitetty näiden jenkkinatopaskiaisten taholta.
larry diamond/white helmet videos tell a different story. remind me, why do they use the same child ‘crisis actors’ time and time again, no matter what part of syria they film from?
saa was incompentent and unreliable as ally. but give russia the perfect pretext to reject any ceasefire with ukronazis. no ceasefire or frozen conflict, complete capitulation! i see dead ukros kkkkkkk
do you all remember how, by the idiotic 2020 agreement, sultanate of erdoganistan agreed to open the latakia – aleppo highway for syrians to use? russians and turkoids did a few joint patrols and that’s it. highway was never secured, thus turkey was in clear breach of the agreement, and russia just gave up on it. xd
that was the key point that’s made all this possible what were the russians thinking?
they are zionist stooges.
it’s finish for bachar al-assad.
tell me what you terrorist supporters think syria will look like if assad is gone?
everybody will be rich, live in peace and prosperity. maybe they will join the eu. hahaha. just kidding, death and destruction, that’s what nationalists produce everywhere. chaos, where one clan fights the other.
you mean like russia and ukraine?
strange comment, but this happens i guess when you don’t see the sun for half a year.
an orkish hord for the zios to command wherever they fell like. ukraine, armenia, russia, iran, china.
where the hell is iran and hezbollah at? russian airstrikes aren’t stopping these terrorists rats.
hezbolah is dead killed by the war traitor hamas pulled them in and iran is scared after the isrealis attack they say hit nothing showed them they can hit anything. russia should pull everything back as long as the path through iraq/ iran/ caspian is open or their soldiers will be left there to die without any chance to return home.
now at least 1b million time, i told you and everybody else here: iran president was killed by israeli mossad (in helicopter assasination) and then replaced by a pro-israel guy, an kurdisch-aserbaidshani agent called ‘pezeshkian. so of course iran, hezbollah(libanon) are f*cked now!!!!!
brillianty played by russia. putin the chess master 😂
i hate to say this, but he got outsmarted by erdogan, again. and then these sf-fabboys turn around by blaming assad. hell, assad could have ended hts but putin wanted to please erdogan and make a deal. just goes to show that putin is an incompetent and unreliable partner.
you kurds are too.
yes, big chess match putin delivred on point. hahah .. but i told this before .. to everybody here .. but nobody wanted to listen.
putin being a putin ina mo. no more mediterranean base for russia no more
los turcos le tomaron el pelo a los zonzos rusos durante varios años los rusos son muy tontos en confiar en los turcos y varios mas se sabe que los turcoides no son gente confiable para nada son peores que gitanos mafiosos
will be funny to watch how kurds and islamists kill each other after assad fell and all the others that are involved in this chaos. the idea that an armed rebellion leads to a better outcome works only in the empty brains of idiotic nationalists.
there’s nothing funny about all this and you won’t be just watching. the usa will just abandon the kurds and turkey will take over under their direction. some resistance will continue but it’ll be extremely hard. kurds are not “nationalist” anymore, they are democratic confederalists.
turkey already pushed them to fight us, they refused… for now. we can negotiate peace, we could fight, they could fight each other. anything is possible atm.
i can tell you what’s possible. like everywhere else some armed groups take hostage the normal majority, as is also the case with these kurds in syria. in the end everyone fights everyone else, what remains is death and destruction.
realistically, being familiar with the region, i am afraid u are right. that is the most likely scenario.
we lost our empire in 1918 and nobody really cares. we got neutrality in 1955 and are proud of our status. where i live there are kurds from turkey and syria, turks, many urkainian refugees as well as russian emigrants. we understand each other and are happy to live in peace. hopefully we can absorb the next wave of refugees and offer them what they deserve: a decent life.
u seem like a decent and reasonable guy. hopefully no one needs to flee their land and become refugees in the first place but yeah … wishful thinking.
don’t be silly. they set you up as neutral for their benefit not yours .
so from all you mentioned i guess you are residencing in germany, right ?
i think, at the end, this will strike back and end existence of turkey and israel as we know them today. not tomorrow, but not in many years. but poor people there in syria..
hope so, hope that fucker erdodog croaks sooner rather than later
extremely sad. probably deserved for the obsolete baathist regime but still very bad for syrians, arabs in general and the world at large.
p…n’s russia is garbage.
ultimately this amerikunt turdish nato effort will fail—amerikunt and their nazi colonies will again face humiliation as russia iran hizbollah unite to eradicate the cockroaches—watch and learn you pathetic losers
russia and assad gonna flee to russia in a few days. syria is finished for them. see us, eu and uk got their way, assad out of the picture. now iran has lost its weapons supply routes through syria to lebanon so it is a win for nato again.
hezbollah and iran are even worse chessplayer than putin. they agreed to peace agreement with jews, who just f*cked them hard and continue bombing them despite peace agreement. and now syria is thrown under the bus, and lebanon will go down after syria – that’s very clear. if iran and houthis not reestablish syrian assad regime its game over foriran in the long run.
first thing iranian have to do is: kill your traitor israeli-spy fake-president pezeshkian !!!
aloha snackbar
where is the russian military? putin spent billions, and thousands of russian lives supporting assad! is he just going to throw all that away? can a great nation like russia support two wars?
the west desperately and endlessly tried to topple syria and failed for over 10 years, it strained and strained just to bring down one country. what they have done is pathetic, and they won’t ultimately get the regime they want in syria anyway, just as with libya and afghanistan
allies turkiye,usa(nato) and israel together destroying syria. putin, lavrov, iran peace deals will start soon with turkiye,israel and usa esad will run to russia.
russian drones and radars are still switch off.s300 and s400 systems are still switch of because putin doesn want to take over towns.same in ukraine.but putin wants to make deals with trump and macron.
only through dialogue can peace be maintained.
putin exclude real presidents of the country and easily make deals with illegal occupiers trump and erdogan.big shoes erdogan will call putin and fly to moscow.oil pipeline via syria and armenia.
syria under al kaida control is guaranteed to become a second afghanistan and thus a disaster for the us but especially for israhelli terrorists. al qaeda, unlike assad, will certainly not stand idly by and watch israel bomb the country. the israelis will definitely regret it when assad is gone .
sunni arabs are jewish american bitches now. they will always fight other muslims before they fight zionists and americans. its something we will have to accept. they deserve their slavery. until i see a gamal nasser emerge from any arab country, i stand by this position
putin could go down as the dumbest mofo in history….still calling them our partners.
putin is a great statesman but a poor war leader. during times of war, you need a ruthless statesman in charge. russia should have flattened the conoco oil fields the day after they were seized. with iran, they should have killed jewlani and his inner circle. in ukraine, the moment atacms were fied at russia, zelensky and crew should have been killed. instead, russia has allowed a slow bleed. sometimes shock and awe from the western handbook is useful. not all the time, but in decisive moments
the west and their terrorist allies are ruthless. russia and iran are not ruthless. russia is ruthless in ukraine but not beyond that. those who are ruthless have an advantage over the rest. the resistance axis is not fighting ruthless. china wants to avoid fighting. these strategies are doomed to failure if the resistance does not become ruthless against the west and its terrorists.
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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, and turkish mit, well pay assassins, murderers and terrorists in disguise. america is rule by zionism, c.o.
buy buy ass-ad.
welcome your zionist overlords. now kiss their feet ahmed jewlani