Syrian insurgents have reached the suburbs of Damascus as partof a rapidly moving offensive that has seen them take over some ofSyria’s largest cities across the country, opposition activists and arebel commander said Saturday.
By Bassem Mroue, Associated PressA Syrian opposition fighter holds a rocket launcher in front of the provincial government office, where an image of Syrian President Bashar Assad is riddled with bullets on the facade, in the aftermath of the opposition's takeover of Hama, Syria, Friday, Dec. 6, 2024.
His chief international backer, Russia, is busy with its war in Ukraine, and Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah, which at one point sent thousands of fighters to shore up his forces, has been weakened by a yearlong conflict with Israel. Iran, meanwhile, has seen its proxies across the region degraded by Israeli regular airstrikes.
An Israeli military vehicle rides along a road next to the UN base on the Israeli side of the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria Saturday Dec. 7, 2024. Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Syria war monitor, reported Saturday that Iran’s military advisers have started leaving Syria. He added that Iran-backed fighters in eastern Syria, mainly from Afghanistan and Pakistan, have withdrawn into central Syria.
The Syrian army said in a statement Saturday that it has carried out redeployment and repositioning in Sweida and Daraa after its checkpoints came under attack by “terrorists.” The army said it is setting up a “strong and coherent defensive and security belt in the area,” apparently to defend Damascus from the south.
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