Egypt Daily News – During the past hours, terrorist organizations in Syria were able to control villages, towns and military sites around the city of Hama, which is located in the center of the country and is far from the capital, Damascus (210 km) and from the city of Aleppo (135 km).
These terrorist organizations are currently preparing to enter the city’s neighborhoods, according to what a media source from the ground confirmed to sources.
If the terrorist organizations enter the city of Hama, this will be the first achievement of its kind since the beginning of the events of the revolution in 2011. The terrorist organizations entered the neighborhoods of the city of Aleppo yesterday, Friday, and took control of most of them, in addition to its international airport.
This came in parallel with its completion of the process of controlling the entire administrative borders of Idlib Governorate.
This comes after Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and its allies, on Saturday, took control of Aleppo International Airport and strategic towns in Idlib, after the “withdrawal” of government forces from them, according to what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
The Observatory reported that “Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham took control of Aleppo Airport,” the second largest international airport after Damascus, becoming the first civilian air facility under its control. This was accompanied by the advance of the opposition factions active with it to the northern countryside of Hama and eastern Idlib, where it took control of “dozens of strategic towns” there, according to the Observatory.
These terrorist organizations, whose stronghold is Idlib Governorate in northwestern Syria, began an unprecedented attack on Wednesday on areas controlled by the Syrian army in Aleppo Governorate, and on Friday night they were able to enter the city of Aleppo, for the first time since the army, with Russian and Iranian support, regained control of the entire city in 2016.
Three days after its surprise attack, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (Al-Nusra Front before it rebranded from Al-Qaeda) and allied opposition factions controlled “the majority of Aleppo city, government centers and prisons,” according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Since the start of the attack on Wednesday, military operations have resulted in the killing of at least 327 people, 183 of whom are members of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and the opposition factions, and 100 members of the Syrian army and groups loyal to it, in addition to 44 civilians, according to the latest toll by the Observatory.
