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On Friday, U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters began withdrawing from two key neighborhoods in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, marking a pivotal development in Syria’s ongoing political transformation. This move comes as part of a broader agreement between the Kurdish-led authority in northeastern Syria and the Damascus-based central government, which is steadily reasserting its authority across the country. The fighters pulled …

Protests erupted across several regions of Syria on Wednesday after a video emerged showing an attack on an Alawite shrine in northern Syria, according to witnesses and a war monitor. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that large demonstrations took place in the coastal cities of Tartus and Latakia, which are home to the Alawite minority, the sect to …

Syrian rebel commander Hassan Abdel Ghani reassured religious minorities on Saturday after Islamist-led forces captured significant territory, including key cities, from the Syrian government. His message, conveyed through Telegram, came as the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) continued its swift offensive against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. Abdel Ghani, a senior commander in the rebel alliance, emphasized that the era of …

For the first time since 2016, Syrian government forces clashed with insurgents inside Aleppo, the country’s largest city, while airstrikes targeted rebel supply lines on the city’s outskirts, according to state media reports on Saturday. On Friday, insurgents breached government defenses in Aleppo, advancing into the western part of the city with minimal resistance. Their offensive, which began on Wednesday, …