Syrian insurgents say they have entered the central city of Hama after three days of intense clashes with government forces on its outskirts. Syrian state media confirmed violent clashes between government forces and opposition gunmen on the eastern outskirts of Hama city on Thursday but denied that the insurgents had breached it.
Internally displaced people sit in a camp in Tabqa city, Raqqa governorate, northern Syria , on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. Thousands of Kurdish families displaced from Aleppo and Tel Rifaat have ended up in temporary shelters and on the streets in Kurdish-controlled areas of Tabqa city. Internally displaced people arrive at a camp in Tabqa city, Raqqa governorate, northern Syria , on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024.
It was the first opposition attack on the city since 2016, when a brutal Russian air campaign retook it for Assad after rebel forces had initially seized it. Intervention by Russia, Iran and Iranian-allied Hezbollah and other militant groups has allowed Assad to remain in power.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said gunmen have entered parts of the city, mainly the neighborhoods of Sawaaeq and Zahiriyeh to the northwest. It added that gunmen are also on the edge of the northwestern neighborhood of Kazo.
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