Insurgents have breached Syria’s second-largest city, Aleppo, and were clashing with government forces on the city's western edge on Friday, according to a Syria war monitor and fighters. Insurgents have been approaching Aleppo city for days and have seized several towns and villages along the way.
Thousands of insurgents continued their advance toward Aleppo city in Syria on Friday, seizing several towns and villages along the way. The offensive comes as Iran-linked groups, who have backed Syria n government forces since 2015, have been preoccupied with the wider Middle East conflict engulfing Lebanon and Gaza. Syria n opposition fighters ride in front of a tank they allegedly captured from Syria n Government troops in Talhiya, Idlib countryside, Syria , Friday, Nov. 29, 2024.
Turkish security officials said on Thursday that Syrian opposition groups initially launched a long-planned “limited” offensive toward Aleppo, from where attacks targeting civilians originated. However, the offensive expanded as Syrian government forces began retreating from their positions, the officials said.
Russia and Iran and its allied groups had helped Syrian government forces reclaim control of all of Aleppo that year, after a gruelling military campaign and a siege that lasted for weeks. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, said the insurgents detonated two car bombs at the western edge of Aleppo on Friday. The war monitor said the insurgents were also able to seize control of Saraqeb, south of Aleppo, a town strategically located at the intersection of the highways linking Aleppo with Damascus and the coast. Syrian government authorities had diverted traffic from that highway Thursday.
Syria’s Armed Forces said the insurgents are violating a 2019 agreement that de-escalated fighting in the area, the last remaining opposition stronghold for years. In a phone call with his Syrian counterpart, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi described the insurgent attacks in Syria “as a plot orchestrated by the US and the Zionist regime following the regime’s defeat in Lebanon and Palestine.”
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