HTS jihadists stormed the lavish residence amid their ongoing offensive in opposition to authorities forces
Video footage has emerged displaying jihadist gunmen roaming the halls of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s palace in Aleppo. Insurgents stormed into the 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 determine 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 might be seen wandering by darkened eating rooms and climbing a marble staircase to achieve the palace’s higher ranges.
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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 the 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 mandatory assist to assist Assad’s forces defeat the insurgency. “The Syrian military will as soon as once more beat these terrorist teams as previously,” he informed Iran’s IRNA state information company earlier than the assembly.
In accordance with studies by each pro- and anti-Assad Telegram channels, Iranian army advisers and volunteers entered Syria on Saturday and are at the moment serving to the Syrian military set up a counteroffensive from the town of Hama, round 80km south of Aleppo.
On Sunday, Syria’s state-run SANA information company stated that the military “was in a position to safe a variety of areas” round Hama and inflict important casualties on the terrorist power, with out offering additional particulars. On Saturday, Syrian officers estimated HTS losses at round 1,000 fighters.
Earlier than adopting its present title in 2017, Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham was often called Jabhat al-Nusra. Not directly armed by the US and previously backed by Türkiye, Jabhat al-Nusra was one of many primary factions opposing Bashar Assad’s authorities through the Syrian Civil Battle. 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 “average rebels” by Washington.
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