The Aleppo seizure After seizing Aleppo, Syria’s second city, this week, opposition troops are now in possession of Damascus. Once affiliated with al-Qaeda,
The Islamist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) claimed that throughout the attack, government soldiers hardly resisted them.
At the time, journalist Abd Alghani Al-Aryan told The Independent that the Assad regime’s return was “out of the question.”
“Especially after losing the most important factor that was defending it: Russian airpower, followed by the Iranian and Lebanese militias, especially Hezbollah,” he said.
With Israel bombing Hezbollah and Russia conducting its war in Ukraine, the two Syrian allies have recently been weakened by their own conflicts.
The political response On Sunday, deputy prime minister Angela Rayner told Laura Kuenssberg that there must be.
