JERUSALEM – A radical Islamist group unleashed its greatest navy incursion in opposition to Syrian regime forces since 2020 within the northwest of the war-ravaged Syrian Arab Republic, triggering Russian and Syrian warplanes on Thursday to bomb the rebel offensive.
Rebels led by the U.S-designated Islamist terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham stormed a dozen cities and villages in northwest Aleppo province, which is managed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.
The Syrian Islamist offensive began on the identical day that Assad’s ally, the Lebanese-based terrorist group, Hezbollah, reached a ceasefire settlement with Israel to finish over 14 months of warfare.
The battle unfolding in Syria includes a motley crew of U.S.-classified state-sponsors of terrorism — Assad’s regime, the Islamic Republic of Iran — in opposition to a Turkey-backed Islamist terrorist motion. Vladimir Putin’s Russian regime has confronted accusations of battle crimes throughout its invasion of Ukraine.
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Smoke rises amid preventing between opposition factions and Syrian authorities troops in Majdaliya, Idlib countryside, Syria, on Thursday. (AP Photograph/Ghaith Alsayed)
Former U.S. protection intel officer Rebekah Koffler, who’s an professional on Putin, instructed Fox Information Digital, “This is classic Putin’s Playbook, what’s going on in Syria, on Thanksgiving Day. He is doing what’s called lateral escalation in Syria, in response to Biden’s giving authorization to [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky to use U.S. ATACMs to strike deep into Russia, and Zelensky taking Biden up on his offer. Russia and the United States are on the opposite sides of the war in Syria. So Putin is ratcheting up support of Assad, which is counter to U.S. policy, signaling to Biden that he will be countering U.S. interests across multiple geographic areas.”
Anti-regime teams take management of some villages within the western countryside because the clashes between the Bashar al-Assad regime and the opposition armed group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) continued in Aleppo, Syria on Wednesday. (Kasim Rammah/Anadolu through Getty Photos)
Koffler added, “Putin is signaling pressure on Biden to withdraw authorization from Zelensky to use ATACMs against Russia. The doctrine is ‘escalate to de-escalate.’ With the recent strike of hypersonic missile Oreshnik on Ukraine, Putin climbed several rungs on the escalation ladder. With Russian air forces joining Syrian airfare bombing rebel-held northwestern Syria, he is also moving laterally on the escalation ladder, to out escalate the United States, unbalance Biden, and create as much negotiating leverage on Ukraine for himself before President Trump begins his second term. I would not be surprised if Assad strikes the rebel-held territories with chemical weapons again.”
Alex Grinberg, an Israeli professional on Russia, instructed Fox Information Digital that the remainder of Assad’s military can’t combat in opposition to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham with out Russian air energy.
He mentioned that is “usually what the Russians do” in Syria.
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Iranian regime-controlled state media mentioned that Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier Common Kioumars Pourhashemi was killed in Aleppo through the incursion. Pourhashemi was a senior IRGC navy adviser in Syria.
Anti-regime teams took management of some villages within the western countryside because the clashes between the Bashar al-Assad regime and the opposition armed group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) continued in Aleppo, Syria on Wednesday. (Kasim Rammah/Anadolu through Getty Photos)
Islamist rebels say the marketing campaign was in response to stepped-up strikes in current weeks in opposition to civilians by the Russian and Syrian air forces on areas in southern Idlib, and to preempt any assaults by the Syrian military, which they mentioned was build up troops close to entrance strains with rebels.
Assad’s battle in opposition to his inhabitants, which began with Syrians calling for democracy in 2011, has resulted within the murders of over 500,000 individuals.
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Iran has despatched 1000’s of fighters to Syria through the Syrian battle. Whereas these have included members of the Guards, formally serving as advisers, the majority have been Shi’ite militiamen from all around the area.
Turkish safety sources mentioned on Thursday the rebels initially launched a restricted operation after assaults by Syrian authorities forces, and expanded the operation after authorities forces deserted their positions.
Reuters contributed to this report.
