Syrian authorities said on Saturday they had closed Aleppo airport and all roads leading to the city Reuters tres fuentes militares, Mientras los rebels He is against President Bashar al-Assad han llegado al corazón de Aleppo.
Opposition fighters led by the armed Islamist group “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” (Organismo de Liberation del Levante) conducted an operation. surprise surprise It arrived in Aleppo this week in government-held towns and nearly a decade after it was driven out by Assad and his allies.
Russia, one of Assad's main allies, promised Damascus additional military aid Two military sources to annoy the rebels, said that the new material will begin to arrive in the next 72 hours.
The Syrian army has been ordered to follow orders to “safely withdraw” from key rebel-held areas of the city, three military sources said.
Rebels launched an offensive on Wednesday and in the final hours of Friday, an operations room representing the attack said they had destroyed several neighborhoods of Aleppo.
Los Rebels I'm back in town for the first time since 2016When Assad and his allies Russia, Iran and regional Shiite militias resumed and the rebels agreed to retire after months of bombardment and siege.
Rebel brigade commander Mustafa Abdul Jabir said his rapid advance this week was aided by the lack of Iranian-backed manpower in the largest province of Aleppo. Since the war in Gaza has spread to the Middle East, Iran's allies in the region have received a number of blows from Israel.
You have to fight to get rid of the fight. response to enhanced attacks by Russian and Syrian air forces in the last few weeks against civilians in the rebel-held areas of Idlib and to prevent any attack by the Syrian army.
Opposition sources in contact with Turkish intelligence said that Turkey, which supports the rebels, gave the green light to the attack.
But Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Oncu Keceli said on Friday that Turkey was trying to avoid major instability in the region and warned that the latest attacks violated de-escalation agreements.
The attack is the biggest since Russia and Turkey agreed in March 2020 to de-escalate the conflict.
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On Friday, Syrian state television denied that rebels had entered the city and said Russia was providing air support to the Syrian army. The Syrian army said that it fought against the attack and carried out major strikes pérdidas a los insurgentes In the villages of Aleppo and Idlib.
“We are deeply concerned about the situation in northwestern Syria,” said David Carden, the UN's assistant regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syrian crisis. “Los incesantes attacks de los ultimos tres días se han cobrado la vida de al Less than 27 civiliansincluding niños de hasta 8 años”.
According to Syrian state news agency SANA, four civilians, including two students, were killed when rebels bombed university student dormitories in Aleppo on Friday. It is not clear if they were among the 27 dead reported by the UN official.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday that Moscow views the rebel attack as a violation of Syria's sovereignty.
“Estamos a lúp de que las authoridades sirias restablezcan el order en la zona y el order constitucional lo antes posible,” he said.