Jihadists and their allies entered Aleppo, Syria's second city, Friday November 29, 2024. “They entered the west and southwest districts,” said to theAFP the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), Rami Abdel Rahman.
A lightning offensive
For two days, rebels have been carrying out a vast offensive in the north of the country which has left at least 255 dead according to the OSDH. The city was bombed for the first time in four years, after two days of a dazzling offensive against the regime. The jihadists then took control of five neighborhoods of the city, he added, while regime forces “did not put up much resistance”.
Fighting continues in Aleppo
The Syrian army has deployed reinforcements in Aleppo, according to a security official who assured to have pushed back “the great offensive of terrorist groups” and regained several positions. As Russian aircraft bomb the Idlib region in the north of the country, the Kremlin called on the Syrian authorities to “put things in order as quickly as possible” in Aleppo.
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An attack in reaction to the regime which “started bombing civilian areas”
In a press conference, the head of ” government “ self-proclaimed leader in Idlib, Mohammad al-Bashir, justified the offensive the day before by saying that the regime had “began bombing civilian areas, which caused the exodus of tens of thousands of civilians.”
The UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that “more than 14,000 people, almost half of whom are children, have been displaced” by violence.
