Syrian rebels capture Aleppo airport as they seize ‘most’ of city

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/30/syrian-rebels-capture-aleppo-airport-seize-majority-city/

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  1. ***The Telegraph reports:***

    Syrian rebels have captured Aleppo’s airport and “most” of the city [in a lightning advance](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/29/syrian-rebels-capture-tanks-aleppo-assad-russia/) that has stunned Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

    Fighters [broke through government lines](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/28/syrian-rebels-launch-surprise-attack-against-assad-regime/) in the west, captured the airport in the east and also appeared in photographs outside the medieval citadel in the centre of Syria’s second city.

    The Syrian army on Saturday admitted that rebels had entered large parts of the city and said regime forces had staged a temporary withdrawal to prepare a counter-offensive.

    The withdrawal was part of a regrouping effort ahead of the arrival of reinforcements to launch the counter-attack, it claimed.

    Dozens of soldiers had been killed or injured in fierce battles with insurgents in Aleppo and Idlib over the past few days, the military said.

    Video showed fighters patrolling around the airport on Saturday morning, after the regime had halted flights on Friday as the offensive reached the city.

    ***Read more here:*** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/30/syrian-rebels-capture-aleppo-airport-seize-majority-city/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/30/syrian-rebels-capture-aleppo-airport-seize-majority-city/)

  2. Who’s worse? The Islamic terorrists or the secular dictator that bombs his own people? Someone help me decide

  3. There are reports that that YPG/Kurdish forces, who are in a tenuous alliance of convenience with the Assad regime after the Americans abandoned them, may be moving in extra forces to Aleppo to at least defend their neighborhoods from the HTS and SNA (backed by Turkey, which is obviously the mortal enemy of Kurds), maybe to even stall them while Assad’s forces/Iran/Hezbollah/Russia try to muster some sort of force for a counter attack.

    As always, the Syrian civil war is an incredibly messy conflict. But I don’t think this whole thing can be characterized as positive by any reasonable person, while these gains are being made against a brutal dictatorship they are being made by a coalition made up mostly of hardcore Sunni Islamist with lots of ties to the former Al-Nusra Front which were like one step below ISIS in their extremism.

  4. So is this a “good”, bad, or wait-and-see type of situation?

  5. They are fighting against russians so good luck to them, would be fewer of 🇷🇺🪆military for Ukraine to deal with

  6. It’s a complete rout of Assad’s forces. There are reports the rebels are halfway to Hama. Parts of Aleppo is defended by SDF units for now, they’ll probably evacuate their units from Tall Rifat, cause there is a rebel pincer movement from south of Al Bab.

  8. How come we don’t see headlines with number of dead each day combining civilian and combatant casualties? Ykno, like next door?

  9. Normally, a headline makes some sense. Who are the rebels now?

  10. The highest numbers of civilian deaths in this conflict have been caused by Assad’s lakeys and their sectarian violence against, you guessed it wrong, sunni muslim syrians. Yet the iranian and russian and syrian trolls have worked overtime to make you people flinch at the sound of hearing “sunni”, because ISIL. and the west gobbles this shit narrative up. Fuck Assad, fuck the Ayatollahs, fuck the Hamas and Hisbollah, fuck Russia

  11. Lol let’s remind ourselves these guys are worse than Assad

  12. Why would any nation want to align themselves with Iran and Russia at this point?

  13. My whole life, even up until as recent as 2016, Aleppo was under war, with war torn buildings, it’s sad it is getting involved again.. 

  14. Sadam was bad, but he was holding on to the region. What came after was hundred times worse. And the same way Syria is headed at the moment.

  15. Damn he’s a lot less of a threat once his backers Russia and Iran are preoccupied with their own messes 

  16. Cue America! Fuck yeah! Coming again to save the motherfucking day yeah!

    (This is satire from a very good movie)

  17. Many years ago, we had Syrian refugees come to my work for dental care (I worked at a pediatric dental school). The children’s eyes did not have the same innocent look as our American patients. It was very sad but relieving to see them out of that hellhole and beginning a new life.

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