The jihadists and their allies, who launched a vast offensive in northern Syria against the regime and which left more than 255 dead, took control of five neighborhoods of Aleppo, an NGO said. This is the first time in four years that the country’s second city has been attacked.
According to the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahmane, the fighters “took control of five neighborhoods” of the large city in northern Syria, while the regime forces “did not put up no great resistance.”
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) announced that around fifty localities had been conquered by the jihadists since Wednesday.
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“Car bombs
These are the most violent clashes since 2020 in northwest Syria, where the province of Aleppo, largely in the hands of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, borders the last major rebel and jihadist stronghold of Idlib. .
Earlier on Friday, a security official indicated that the Syrian army had “sent reinforcements” to Aleppo and assured that the attackers “did not reach the limits of the city”. The army assured that it had repelled “the major offensive by terrorist groups” and regained several positions.
According to the OSDH, the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group and allied groups, some close to Turkey, reached the gates of the city on Friday morning.
The fighters “entered the outskirts of Al-Hamdaniya and New Aleppo in the city of Aleppo after carrying out two suicide attacks with car bombs,” according to the NGO.
Intense fights
During the civil war which broke out in 2011, regime forces, supported by the Russian air force, in 2016 recaptured the eastern part of Aleppo, the large city in northern Syria, from the hands of the insurgents thanks to devastating bombings.
OSDH, a UK-based NGO with an extensive network of sources in Syria, reported that Russian and Syrian air forces had launched intensive raids on the Idlib region.
Fighters bombarded Aleppo for the first time in four years, targeting the university campus where four civilians were killed, according to the official Sana agency.
Northern Syria has benefited in recent years from an uneasy calm made possible by a ceasefire established after a regime offensive in March 2020. The truce was sponsored by Moscow with Turkey, which supports certain Syrian rebel groups at its border.
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