{"id":117375,"date":"2024-11-30T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=117375"},"modified":"2024-11-30T14:14:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T12:14:39","slug":"30-05-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=117375","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Islamist rebels re-enter Aleppo in apparent collapse of regime defenses"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Syrian Islamist rebels re-enter Aleppo in apparent collapse of regime defenses<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Andrew Bernard<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cBiden\u2019s Iran team is weak and suspect,\u201d wrote Richard Grennell, former U.S. acting director of national intelligence. \u201cWho\u2019s calling the Turkish leaders? Who\u2019s in charge?\u201d<\/strong>.<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (right) and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi exchange documents after signing a memorandum of understanding on “long-term strategic cooperation” in Damascus, May 3, 2023 In Damascus, Syria. Photo by Borna News\/Matin Ghasemi\/Aksonline ATPImages\/Getty Images.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Syrian Islamist rebels appear to have made stunning territorial advances against the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad on Friday, re-entering the city of Aleppo for the first time in eight years amid the apparent collapse of government defenses in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unconfirmed videos on social media suggest that rebel fighters from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other groups captured parts of western Aleppo, which was Syria\u2019s most populous city prior to the country\u2019s ongoing civil war, which broke out in 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) emerged as an al-Qaeda splinter faction, although it now rejects affiliation with the terror group. The United States designated HTS as a foreign terrorist organization in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

The offensive marks the rebels\u2019 most significant advance, following years of stalemate in northwest Syria, with Turkish-backed rebels and HTS holding a narrow strip of territory around the provinces of Idlib and Afrin. <\/span><\/p>\n

Turkey and Russia signed a ceasefire in 2020 after agreeing to turn Idlib into a \u201cde-escalation zone\u201d in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oncu Keceli, the spokesman for Turkey\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, called for a halt to the fighting on Friday. \u201cWe have emphasized that these attacks must come to an end,\u201d he wrote<\/a>. \u201cIn fact, the recent clashes have resulted in an undesirable escalation of tensions in the region.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called on Friday for the Syrian regime to retake control of the lost areas.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs for the situation around Aleppo, it is an attack on Syrian sovereignty and we are in favor of the Syrian authorities bringing order to the area and restoring constitutional order as soon as possible,\u201d he said, per Reuters<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked about rumors that Assad had made a surprise flight to Moscow, Peskov said that he had \u201cnothing to say\u201d about the Russian social media reports, according to Reuters<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russian and Syrian jets reportedly bombed rebel-held parts of Idlib on Friday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Assad regime\u2019s brutal recapture of Aleppo in 2016\u2014with Russian, Iranian and Hezbollah support\u2014marked a major turning point in Syria\u2019s 13-year civil war and suggested that the government would prevail over the rebels in most of the country\u2019s Arab-majority areas.<\/span><\/p>\n

With Russia engaged in Ukraine and Hezbollah reeling from its losses fighting Israel, the loss of parts of Aleppo could suggest that Iran, its allies and proxies have been significantly weakened.<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard Grennell, former acting director of national intelligence in the first Trump administration, wrote on Friday that the regional chaos points to a lack of leadership from U.S. President Joe Biden.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBiden isn\u2019t speaking to Putin. We have no U.S. ambassador in Turkey. Biden\u2019s Iran team is weak and suspect. Lebanon in chaos. A war in Gaza,\u201d Grennell wrote<\/a>. \u201cWho\u2019s calling the Turkish leaders? Who\u2019s in charge?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Syrian Islamist rebels re-enter Aleppo in apparent collapse of regime defenses Andrew Bernard \u201cBiden\u2019s Iran team is weak and suspect,\u201d wrote Richard Grennell, former U.S. acting director of national intelligence. \u201cWho\u2019s calling the Turkish leaders? Who\u2019s in charge?\u201d. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (right) and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi exchange documents after signing a memorandum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117375"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117398,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117375\/revisions\/117398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}