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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 …

On Friday, insurgents breached the western edge of Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city, following the detonation of two car bombs. They clashed with government forces, marking the first attack on the city by opposition forces since 2016. That year, after months of intense fighting, Syrian government forces, supported by Russia, Iran, and allied groups, retook control of eastern Aleppo from opposition …

Israeli airstrikes in the Syrian city of Palmyra resulted in the deaths of 71 pro-Iran operatives, with more than a third identified as fighters from Iraq and Lebanon, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Thursday. Among the casualties were 45 members of pro-Iran Syrian groups, 26 foreign fighters—primarily from Iraq’s Al-Nujaba movement—and four from Lebanon’s Hezbollah. The …