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By the beginning of 7 December 2024, rebels had captured most of Daraa Governorate and Suwayda Governorate and granted safe passage to some pro-government forces towards Damascus. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] Maher al-Assad , Bashar's brother and head of the 4th Armoured Division , was tasked with defending the capital.
By mid-July 2012, fighting in Damascus intensified, with a major rebel push to take the city. [65] On 19 July 2012, the Syrian Army stormed the rebel held Qaboun neighborhood with a large number of tanks. [66] On 20 July, the Syrian Army continued its counterattack, storming the neighborhood of Jobar in Damascus, searching for rebels. [67]
Damascus (/ d ə ˈ m æ s k ə s / də-MAS-kəs, UK also / d ə ˈ m ɑː s k ə s / də-MAH-skəs; Arabic: دِمَشْق, romanized: Dimašq) is the largest city in Syria, the oldest capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam.
Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in a lightning-quick advance across the country. As Assad resigned and fled Syria, rebel ...
“None of the embassies of the (Israeli) regime are safe anymore,” Safavi was quoted as saying by the semi-official Tasnim agency. He spoke at a ceremony in Tehran for the generals killed in the strike that flattened an Iranian consular building. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was prepared for any response.
Thousands across Syria have taken to the streets to celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime and the end to a catastrophic civil war.. The rallies will see thousands marking an end ...
By the beginning of 7 December, rebels had captured 90% of Daraa Governorate, with the exception of Sanamayn, and granted safe passage to pro-government forces towards Damascus. [25] Later that morning, rebels also seized Quneitra Governorate after pro-government forces withdrew towards Damascus. [4]
Flight tracking data shows that a plane departed from Damascus airport at just before 2 a.m. local time on Sunday in the direction of the coast before making a sudden U-turn over the city of Homs ...