In a shock offensive, insurgents breach Syria’s largest city for the first time since 2016

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In a shock offensive, insurgents breach Syria’s largest city for the first time since 2016

AP
By SARAH EL DEEB
November 29, 2024

BEIRUT (AP) — Insurgents breached Syria’s largest city Friday and clashed with government forces for the first time since 2016, according to a war monitor and fighters, in a surprise attack that sent residents fleeing and added fresh uncertainty to a region reeling from multiple wars.

The advance on Aleppo followed a shock offensive launched by insurgents Wednesday, as thousands of fighters swept through villages and towns in Syria’s northwestern countryside. Residents fled neighborhoods on the city’s edge because of missiles and gunfire, according to witnesses in Aleppo. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the country’s unresolved civil war, said dozens of fighters from both sides were killed.

The attack injected new violence into a region experiencing dual wars in Gaza and Lebanon involving Israel, and other conflicts, including the Syrian civil war that began in 2011.

Aleppo has not been attacked by opposition forces since they were ousted from eastern neighborhoods in 2016 following a grueling military campaign in which Syrian government forces were backed by Russia, Iran and its allied groups.

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https://apnews.com/article/syria-attack-clashes-aleppo-9c07da6f83036f34d4b18a479de9d085

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from r/UkraineWarVideoReport

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1h26ruf/syrian_rebels_destroyed_a_picture_of_putin_and/

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Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber
Great moments in US regime change history in Syria

8:33 PM · Nov 30, 2024

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Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
The renewed fighting in Syria could result in another migration crisis in Europe.
Many will be tempted to join their families in Germany, Austria, Sweden and other Western European countries.
More than 1 million arrived in Europe during the 2015 European Migration Crisis
2:47 PM · Dec 1, 2024

حسن سجواني 🇦🇪 Hassan Sajwani
@HSajwanization
The question that begs to be asked:  How the hell did terrorists in Syria get their hands on U.S. Army and American produced hardware??
3:21 PM · Dec 1, 2024

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1863316726013637104

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حسن سجواني 🇦🇪 Hassan Sajwani
@HSajwanization
The question that begs to be asked:  How the hell did terrorists in Syria get their hands on U.S. Army and American produced hardware??
3:21 PM · Dec 1, 2024

I asked this question earlier this year when US forces in Syria and Iraq were getting shelled with 81mm mortars - the same caliber of mortars that we left behind in Afghanistan.  (Soviets use 82mm mortars).

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Aleppo, Syria — Jihadist militants have seized a building believed to be the governor's mansion. Assad's regime lost control of Aleppo and is being assisted in a counteroffensive by Russia. Turkey is backing Islamist rebel factions allied with al-Qaeda.

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1863318854178394293

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They are taking advantage of a degraded Hamas less able to defend Syria with Assad and Russia.

Iran is fighting for Shi'a hegemony in the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia and Turkey are in competition for control of Sunni hegemony in the region.

It's the Persian Empire vs the Arab-Islamic Empire vs the Ottoman Empire.