HTS jihadists stormed the lavish residence amid their ongoing offensive towards authorities forces
Video footage has emerged exhibiting jihadist gunmen roaming the halls of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s palace in Aleppo. Insurgents stormed into town in a shock offensive on Thursday.
The Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham (HTS) terrorist group and allied militias attacked government-controlled territory in northern Syria on Wednesday, coming into Aleppo the next day because the Syrian army scrambled to regroup and launch a counteroffensive. By Saturday, the Syrian Normal Command acknowledged that the military had misplaced dozens of service members, however stated that HTS fighters had failed to ascertain mounted positions amid relentless airstrikes by Syrian and Russian warplanes.
A video purportedly filmed by HTS members and shared on social media on Sunday confirmed the militants coming into the Presidential Visitor Palace in Aleppo. The jihadists may very well be seen wandering via darkened eating rooms and climbing a marble staircase to succeed in the palace’s higher ranges.
إدارة العمليات العسكرية لفصائل المعارضة السورية تواصل انتصاراتها ضد النظام النصيري الطائفي في سوريا وتستولى على القصر الرئاسي في حلب ومطارات وقواعد عسكرية ومخازن أسلحة وذخيرة والنظام المهزوم يفجر مخازن الذخيرة والسلاح في المناطق التي يفر منها حتى لا تقع في يد المعارضة #حلب_تتحررpic.twitter.com/UKhsNGo86x
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The palace appeared to have been unoccupied earlier than the video was filmed. Though the Syrian authorities regained full management of Aleppo in 2016 and held town till this week, Assad makes use of quite a few residences, and on the time the video was filmed, was assembly with Iranian International Minister Abbas Araghchi in Damascus some 350km to the south.
Araghchi pledged that Tehran would supply all crucial help to assist Assad’s forces defeat the insurgency. “The Syrian military will as soon as once more beat these terrorist teams as prior to now,” he advised Iran’s IRNA state information company earlier than the assembly.
In keeping with stories by each pro- and anti-Assad Telegram channels, Iranian army advisers and volunteers entered Syria on Saturday and are at present serving to the Syrian military arrange a counteroffensive from town of Hama, round 80km south of Aleppo.
On Sunday, Syria’s state-run SANA information company stated that the military “was capable of safe quite a lot of areas” round Hama and inflict vital casualties on the terrorist drive, with out offering additional particulars. On Saturday, Syrian officers estimated HTS losses at round 1,000 fighters.
Earlier than adopting its present identify in 2017, Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham was referred to as Jabhat al-Nusra. Not directly armed by the US and previously backed by Türkiye, Jabhat al-Nusra was one of many major factions opposing Bashar Assad’s authorities throughout the Syrian Civil Struggle. Russia intervened within the battle in 2015, serving to Assad retake a lot of the nation from Jabhat al-Nusra, Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS), and dozens of US-supported armed teams termed “reasonable rebels” by Washington.
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