Russian and Syrian jets have targeted parts of northern Syria following a rebel offensive that captured Aleppo. President Assad vows to crush the insurgency, amidst one of the world's largest displacement crises involving an estimated 12 million Syrians.
Russian and Syrian jets have struck parts of northern Syria, days after a surprise rebel offensive took control of the city of Aleppo . Rebels are taking advantage of external conflicts as they seek to shift the balance of power - but President Bashar al-Assad has vowed to 'crush' the insurgency.He's one of an estimated 12 million Syrians who have been displaced both internally and abroad by the civil war raging in the country - the largest displacement crisis in the world.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham was formerly known as al-Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, but broke away in 2016, distancing and renaming itself in an attempt to publicly separate itself from the reputation of al-Qaeda."Our main goal was to expel the gangs that were in Aleppo, as they oppressed the people with extreme injustice and suffering. This is the greatest proof that we entered to lift the oppression from them, and everyone around us here are civilians.
"And so we see that the Syrian civil war, which has been going on now really since 2012, has suddenly flared up again in this one location up in northwestern Syria. Does it mean that the Syrian government is about to collapse? No, but it does suggest, that the war is heating up a bit and will heat up until Turkey and Russia come to an agreement about a new ceasefire.
Research fellow and Co-Founder of the Syrian Studies Centre at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, Ibrahim Hamidi, says as of right now, the rebel forces seem to be solely focused on attacking government forces.
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