03/12/2024–|Last updated: 12/3/202406:48 (Mecca time)
Syrian opposition factions announced their control of new villages in the Hama countryside, notably in the Al-Ghab plain, in addition to their control of strategic military sites in the Aleppo countryside, notably the airport Nayrab military and the infantry school. For its part, the Syrian Defense Ministry denied that the opposition had taken control of villages in the Hama countryside, said its soldiers had returned to a number of villages and confirmed that it was preparing for a attack to circumvent what he describes as armed groups. .
Al Jazeera correspondent in the Idlib countryside, Adham Abu Al-Hussam, reported the outbreak of clashes described as violent by the Military Operations Department late yesterday evening, Monday, in the Al-Jabin axis , Tal Meleh and Al-Jalama in the Idlib region. in the northwestern countryside of Hama, in an attempt by regime forces to retake towns that opposition forces took control of yesterday afternoon, Monday, with intense overflights of Syrian and Russian warplanes .
At the same time, the military operations department of the opposition factions’ Operation “Deterrence of Aggression” announced yesterday evening, Monday, that it controls the town of Soran, north of the city of Hama, and reported capturing 5 members of the group. regime forces while combing the city.
Department of Military Operations spokesperson Lt. Col. Hassan Abdul Ghani said opposition forces are expanding their control over what he described as large strategic areas and their progress continues. The factions called on the population of Hama to stay away from the regime’s military sites.
In this context, yesterday Monday, Syrian activists published on social networks scenes showing, according to them, the deployment of opposition fighters at the entrance to the town of Qalaat al-Madiq, in the north of Hama governorate .
Opposition factions continue to engage in intermittent clashes with Syrian forces on the “Maardes-Taybat al-Imam” axis, 12 kilometers from the city of Hama in central Syria, and continue also to gather their forces in the Morek region, according to what was reported by the Anatolia news agency.
After the city of Aleppo – Syria’s second largest city – came under opposition control for the first time, the factions continued their attacks and announced full control of the airport yesterday, Monday military school of Nayrab, east of the city of Aleppo and the military school of infantry in the northern countryside of Aleppo.
Operation Freedom Dawn, launched by the opposition, also announced the withdrawal of the last batch of Kurdish units from besieged areas of Aleppo city and its northern countryside, as part of an agreement to exit to the east of the Euphrates.
On the other hand, the Syrian forces issued a statement denying the advance of the opposition factions and affirming that they had started operations to bypass them in the north of the country, stressing that “rumors according to which armed organizations would take the control of regions and cities is just false propaganda.
He said his strikes, in cooperation with Russian forces over the past hours, resulted in the deaths of more than 400 militants, including foreigners, according to the statement published by the Syrian News Agency (SANA).
Airstrikes
Separately, the Syrian Civil Defense, known as the “White Helmets,” said 25 people, including 14 children, were killed and 66 others injured in airstrikes on the city of Idlib and its surroundings, the countryside of Aleppo and Hama. campaign.
The White Helmets earlier said the Russian raids targeted a group of health centers in Idlib city, including Idlib University Hospital, Ibn Sina, National Hospital, Maternity Hospital and obstetrics and health management.
It was reported that two patients were killed inside the university hospital following these searches.
Yesterday morning, Monday, he announced that a total of around 25 people had been killed following airstrikes in the northwest of the country.
Iraqi factions
On the other hand, the spokesperson for the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades said that the party “carefully monitors the aggression of criminal groups against the Syrian people.”
He added that the party had not yet decided whether to send its fighters to help deter what he called armed groups.
The spokesperson added that Hezbollah Iraq believes that the Iraqi government should take the initiative to send official military forces in agreement with the Syrian government, due to the threat that these groups pose to Iraqi national security and region.
He stressed that the Palestinian issue will remain the party’s first issue and that it will continue to defend the Palestinian people.
Earlier, the Iraqi news agency quoted the head of the Popular Mobilization Forces, Faleh al-Fayyadh, as “categorically” denying the entry of the mobilization fighters into Syria.
Al-Fayad confirmed that the mobilization forces do not operate outside Iraq, according to his statements reported by the agency.
This came after Reuters cited Syrian and Iraqi sources as saying that hundreds of fighters from Iraqi factions crossed the Syrian border last night to support Syrian forces against opposition factions.
Two Iraqi security sources told the agency that at least 300 militants, mostly from the Badr organization and the Nujaba movement, crossed the border on Sunday evening from a dirt road to avoid the official border crossing.
The day before yesterday, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stressed “the importance of supporting allies and friends in the face of foreign-backed terrorist attacks,” according to the Syrian presidency.