A coalition of rebel groups last week launched a lightning offensive in northern Syria and took control of most of Aleppo and several other locations. The UN warns that there are tens of thousands of people on the run.
“As of November 30, more than 48,500 people had been displaced, a sharp increase from 14 thousand registered on 28 November”, stated the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), whose head, Tom Fletcher, expressed concern, the following day, about the situation of ‘tens of thousands of people’ on the run.
“It’s worrying. Tens of thousands of people are being displaced,” commented Tom Fletcher on the social network X.
In response, Syrian and Russian planes bombed areas held by these groups in the province of Idlib, in northwestern Syria and neighboring Aleppo, killing 15 civilians, including children, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH).
The chairman of the Syrian opposition movement in exile, the Syrian National Coalition (CONFROS), Hadi al-Bahra, said today in Istanbul, Türkiye, that the Rebel offensive will continue until the Syrian President’s Government “sits down to negotiate”.
“The military operation will continue until the regime sits down to negotiate. We have enough strength to fight against Assad,” Al-Bahra, currently in exile, said in a press conference broadcast on Turkish television channel Rudaw.
A coalition of rebel groups led by the Islamists of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, the Organization for the Liberation of the Levant, also known as al-Qaida in Syria) last week launched a lightning offensive in northern Syria and took control of most of Aleppo and several other locations, notably in the province of Hama.
O The death toll from fighting in northern Syria rose to 514 this Mondayincluding 268 fighters from the Islamist group HTS and allied rebel factions, 156 pro-government soldiers and fighters and 92 civilians, announced the OSDH, an organization based in the United Kingdom but which has a vast network of collaborators in Syrian territory.
