Jihadists claim to re-enter Syria’s Aleppo (VIDEOS)
Government forces say they’ve inflicted heavy losses on the terrorists as they attempt to neutralize the surprise offensive
In a statement to Al Jazeera, HTS said that its militants had begun to press into several neighborhoods in the northern Syrian city, which has been controlled by government forces since 2016.
According to Türkiye’s Anadolu news agency, the jihadists have clashed with the Syrian Army inside Aleppo.
Video footage shared on social media purportedly showed HTS gunmen marauding through the city on foot and in armored vehicles. Earlier on Friday, the jihadists claimed to have seized some 400 square kilometers of territory in Aleppo and Idlib provinces, and to have captured heavy weaponry and other military hardware from the Syrian Army.
https://www.rt.com/news/608407-syrian-jihadists-claim-to-have/
‘American-Zionist plot’ behind jihadists’ Syria offensive – Iran
A former US official has said that the terrorist group rampaging through the country is “an asset” of Washington
The US and Israel are responsible for the resurgence of Salafist terrorism in Syria, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has claimed, adding that Tehran will support the efforts by the government in Damascus aimed to to halt the ongoing jihadist offensive.
Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham (HTS), the terrorist group formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra, attacked government-controlled territory in northern Syria on Wednesday alongside a collection of allied militias, breaking a fragile truce brokered by Russia and Türkiye in 2020. By Friday, HTS fighters had entered Aleppo, which had been under Syrian government control since 2016.
In a phone call with his Syrian counterpart, Bassam al-Sabbagh, on Friday, Araghchi called the offensive “an American-Zionist” plot. According to Iran’s PressTV, Araghchi noted that the attack took place immediately after Israel struck a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah in Lebanon, suggesting that Washington and West Jerusalem were using HTS as proxies to strike a blow against Syria’s government, which supports the Palestinian cause.
https://www.rt.com/news/608420-syria-jihadists-american-zionist/