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Civil war in Syria – the rebel offensive has reached the city of Homs – UNIAN
If government forces do not hold the city, the territory controlled by Assad will be divided into two isolated parts.
After capturing Hama, Syrian rebels continued their sensationally successful offensive and came close to the city of Homs. Capturing it would cut government-controlled Syrian territory in half, Reuters reports.
In addition to the successful offensive carried out in western Syria by the forces of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, the Kurds have also achieved their achievements, having captured large desert areas in the central-eastern part of the country, including the important city of Deir ez-Zor. Local uprisings against the government of Bashar al-Assad are also beginning in southern Syria. There are also reports of…