By Suleiman Al-Khalidi
AMMAN (Reuters) -The Syrian navy mentioned on Saturday that dozens of its troops had been killed throughout an rebel assault in northwestern Syria and that rebels had managed to enter massive elements of Aleppo metropolis, forcing the military to redeploy.
The Syrian navy assertion was the primary public acknowledgement by the military that insurgents led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham had entered the government-held metropolis of Aleppo in a shock assault that started earlier this week.
“The big numbers of terrorists and the multiplicity of battlefronts prompted our armed forces to hold out a redeployment operation aimed toward strengthening the defence traces as a way to soak up the assault, protect the lives of civilians and troopers, and put together for a counterattack,” the military mentioned.
The rebel assault marks probably the most important problem in years to President Bashar al-Assad, jolting the frontlines of the Syrian civil warfare which have largely been frozen since 2020.
The Syrian navy assertion mentioned that the insurgents had not been capable of set up fastened positions in Aleppo metropolis because of the military’s continued bombardment of their positions.
Two Syrian navy sources mentioned earlier that Russian and Syrian warplanes focused insurgents in an Aleppo suburb on Saturday. Russia deployed its air pressure to Syria in 2015 to assist Assad within the Syrian civil warfare, which started in 2011.
The rebel pressure started its shock offensive earlier this week, sweeping via government-held cities and reaching Aleppo practically a decade after authorities forces backed by Russia and Iran drove rebels from the town.
Talking on Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned Moscow regarded the insurgent assault as a violation of Syria’s sovereignty. “We’re in favour of the Syrian authorities bringing order to the realm and restoring constitutional order as quickly as potential,” he mentioned.
