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Al-Qaeda attack on Aleppo serves 'the Israeli occupation entity': Syrian FM

 

Al-Qaeda attack on Aleppo serves 'the Israeli occupation entity': Syrian FM

Militants from Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham reached Aleppo City on Friday on the third day of a lighting offensive coinciding with Israeli attacks on Syria's border crossings

November 29, 2024

Syrian Foreign Minister Bassam Sabbagh stated on 29 November that the ongoing terrorist offensive on Aleppo and its countryside comes "within the framework of serving the goals of the Israeli occupation entity and its sponsors."

At dawn on Wednesday, militants from the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria's Idlib Governorate launched an offensive against Syrian Arab Army (SAA) positions in the western Aleppo countryside. Russian warplanes were dispatched to target the militants after the assault began.

The HTS militants launched the attack just as a ceasefire between Israel and Syria's ally in Lebanon, Hezbollah, went into effect after a 66-day war. Israeli warplanes bombed the Syria-Lebanon border immediately before the ceasefire was announced.

Foreign Minister Sabbagh pointed to Israel's role in sponsoring extremist groups such as HTS in Syria, noting that the Syrian government "has always warned of the obvious coincidence between the occupation's attacks on it and the attacks of terrorist groups in it."

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