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2024-12-05 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by DarthVader 2024-12-05 09:19|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top
File under: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (al-Nusra)

#1 After the fall of Hama, the next major city in the Syrian opposition forces’ path is Homs, just 40 km away along the M5 highway, with only Er-Rastan and Talbiseh in between.

Er-Rastan’s terrain offers defensive advantages, with the Orontes River and a reservoir protecting its flanks.

However, Assad army’s failure to secure Hama’s flanks led to its loss, raising doubts about its ability to hold Er-Rastan.

If Syrian forces capture Homs, they gain routes to Damascus and the coastal regions, threatening key Russian bases in Tartus and Hmeimim, potentially forcing their evacuation.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-12-05 09:21|| 2024-12-05 09:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Syrian opposition forces have reached the outskirts of Salamiyah city.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-12-05 09:41|| 2024-12-05 09:41|| Front Page Top

#3 In a first SAA officially acknowledges its defeat in Hama-city, saying all its troops are withdrawing. Rebels about to capture the city, few days after they took Aleppo

Posted by DarthVader 2024-12-05 09:43|| 2024-12-05 09:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Video of Traffic on the road between Homs and Damascus as people in Homs are heading towards Damascus.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-12-05 13:20|| 2024-12-05 13:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Rebels in the northern countryside of Homs were able to control the engineering battalion north of the city of Rastan

Posted by DarthVader 2024-12-05 14:48|| 2024-12-05 14:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Looks like the eastern front is collapsing too.

SDF has captured Al-Rasafa and Maadan from the Assad government, after government withdrawal

Posted by DarthVader 2024-12-05 15:55|| 2024-12-05 15:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Those A-10 strikes strikes on convoys in Iraq, if accurate, those convoys on Team Assad?

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-12-05 20:24|| 2024-12-05 20:24|| Front Page Top

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