Emboldened by the HTS lighting advance, Syrian rebel groups seize ground across the Syria as the world prepares for Assad's fall
A southern rebel group, calling themselves the Southern Operation Room, have reportedly assumed nominal control of the governates of Suwayda and Daara, including the major border crossing between Jordan and Syria.
“Our forces have liberated the last village on the outskirts of the city of Homs and are now on its walls,” the Syrian faction leading the sweeping assault said on Telegram. Latakia and Tartus are sites of significant strategic importance, not only for the Assad government but also forRussia has maintained a major naval base in Tartus from more than fifty years and, further north, some of Russia’s most advanced aircraft operate out of Hmeimim Air Base in Latakia.
In another setback for Assad, a U.S.-backed alliance led by Syrian Kurdish fighters on Friday took Deir el-Zor, the government’s main foothold in the vast desert in the east of the country, three Syrian sources told Reuters. After years locked behind frozen front lines, rebel forces have burst out of their northwestern Idlib bastion to achieve the swiftest battlefield advance by either side since a street uprising against Assad mushroomed into civil war 13 years ago.
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