The rebels launched a large-scale offensive against the regime of Bashar al-Assad,
The rebels have already captured a number of villages, taking advantage of weakening support for Bashar al-Assad.
Syrian Islamist rebels have launched their biggest offensive in years against President Bashar al-Assad's forces, capturing at least 15 villages and even killing a senior Iranian commander as they advance towards the city of Aleppo, journalists say. This happened for the first time in four years.
Opponents of Assad, Russia and Iran have moved east from the Idlib region, which remained under the control of the Syrian opposition after a ceasefire in 2020 as a result of an agreement between Turkey and the Russian Federation, writes the Financial Times.
The offensive reportedly killed the senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards stationed in Syria, Brigadier General…
