Syrian armed rebels claim to have entered Aleppo, the first time rebels have entered the country\u2019s second largest city since government forces recaptured the city in 2016. <\/p>\n
Rebel forces launched a surprise attack this week, capturing a number of villages and reigniting conflict that had been largely static for years. <\/p>\n
The Syrian military said it was confronting a \u201cmajor attack\u201d launched by \u201cterrorist organizations\u201d armed with heavy weaponry and drones. <\/p>\n
The rebel \u2018Military Operations Command\u2019, said earlier that they seized control of the Syrian government\u2019s Military Scientific Research Center on the outskirts of Aleppo city after \u201cintense clashes with the regime forces and Iranian militias.\u201d <\/p>\n
Earlier that day, an artillery shell struck Aleppo University\u2019s student housing, killing four people, according to Syria\u2019s state news agency, SANA, which blamed opposition factions for the attack. The spokesperson for the rebel groups Hassan Abdulghani refuted the accusations by the Syrian government media as \u201cbaseless lies.\u201d <\/p>\n
On Thursday, at least 15 civilians, including six children and two women, were killed, and 36 others were injured in airstrikes and shelling on rebel-held areas in Aleppo and Idlib countryside, according to the White Helmets, a volunteer rescue group. Iranian state media said that an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Kioumars Pourhashemi was also killed in the city . <\/p>\n
In a call with his Syrian counterpart to discuss the escalation, Iran\u2019s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi accused the United States and Israel of the \u201creactivation\u201d of the rebels, and \u201cstressed the continued support\u201d of Iran to the Syrian government and army. <\/p>\n
The Kremlin\u2019s spokesman Dmitry Peskov called on the Syrian authorities to \u201cquickly restore order in this area and restore constitutional order.\u201d Both Iran and Russia are key allies to Syria. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Syrian armed rebels claim to have entered Aleppo, the first time rebels have entered the country\u2019s second largest city since government forces recaptured the city in 2016. Rebel forces launched a surprise attack this week, capturing a number of villages and reigniting conflict that had been largely static for years. The Syrian military said it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}