A video released by Syrian rebel-affiliated media on Wednesday (4) shows what are believed to be Syrian Army vehicles abandoned at a military installation near the city of Hama.
Reuters was able to confirm the location of the video. The site is approximately 8 kilometers northeast of the center of Hama. The date the images were taken has not been independently verified.
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Reuters was unable to verify the affiliation of the people in the images or who owned the vehicles.
this Thursday (5), .
The “to preserve the lives of civilians and prevent combat” after what he classified as “intense clashes”.
Understand the conflict in Syria
Syria’s civil war began during the Arab Spring in 2011, when the regime of Bashar al-Assad suppressed a pro-democracy uprising.
The country was plunged into full-scale conflict when a rebel force was formed, known as the Free Syrian Army, to fight government troops.
Furthermore, the Islamic State, a terrorist group, also managed to gain a foothold in the country and came to control 70% of Syrian territory.
Fighting escalated as other regional actors and world powers — from Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United States to Russia — joined in, escalating the country’s war into what some observers described as a “proxy war.”
Russia has allied with Bashar al-Assad’s government to fight the Islamic State and rebels, while the United States has led an international coalition to repel the terrorist group.
After a ceasefire agreement in 2020, the conflict remained largely “dormant”, with minor clashes between the rebels and the Assad regime.
More than 300,000 civilians have been killed in more than a decade of war, according to the UN, and millions of people have been displaced across the region.
