(2 Dec 2024)
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Aleppo, Syria – 2 December 2024
1. Various of abandoned Aleppo international airport
2. Insurgent holding gun standing on Syrian flag
3. Mid of jet bridge
4. Various of abandoned Aleppo international airport
5. Insurgents on aircraft
6. Various of aircraft
7. Various of weapons at airport, empty boxes
8. Various of insurgents tearing down poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad
STORYLINE:
Syrian insurgents have marched into wide government-controlled areas in northern Syria capturing large parts of the country’s largest city and its international airport as well as dozens of nearby villages and towns.
The stunning offensive by insurgents led by the Salfi-Jihadi group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, triggered the heaviest clashes in the country since a March 2020 ceasefire brokered by Turkey and Russia, who back rival sides in the conflict, brought relative calm to northern Syria.
The push by insurgents came as Lebanon’s Hezbollah group has withdrawn much of its fighters into Lebanon over the past few years and Russia, that played an instrumental role in the conflict, has been bogged down by the war in Ukraine.
After taking large parts of Aleppo province, including the provincial capital that carries that same name, and southern parts of the northwestern province of Idlib, the insurgents tried to march toward the central city of Hama but have so far been stopped by government forces and pro-government paramilitary groups.
Russian and Syrian air force carried out dozens of airstrikes over the past days inflicting heavy casualties among the insurgents.
Five countries have military presence in Syria including the U.S. that has troops deployed in the country’s east, Turkey that controls parts of northern Syria, Israel that has presence in the Golan Heights and Iran that has been a main backer of Assad.
Russia has presence in government-held areas mainly along the Mediterranean coast that is home to the only Russian naval base outside the former Soviet Union.
AP video shot by: Omar Albam
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