It was a WhatsApp group that had long been quiet. Occasional updates from the front in Idlib. News about the war in Gaza. But since Friday morning, the Aleppo Siege Media Center network, created in 2016, has burst back to life. By mid-afternoon, the pace quickened, and messages flooded in. Jihadist and rebel forces from Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) had entered Aleppo, a city that hadn’t seen combat since 2020.Images of armed fighters triumphantly arriving on major streets in Syria’s second-largest city quickly circulated. “The rebels have reached Aleppo, praise be to God. This is the city where I was born, from which I was displaced. The city where I faced death, where I lived both the best and worst days of my life,” said Abdelkafi al-Hamdo, an English teacher who fled Aleppo after its fall to regime forces and has been living in Idlib...
It was a WhatsApp group that had long been quiet. Occasional updates from the front in Idlib. News about the war in Gaza. But since Friday morning, the Aleppo Siege Media Center network, created in 2016, has burst back to life. By mid-afternoon, the pace quickened, and messages flooded in. Jihadist and rebel forces from Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) had entered Aleppo, a city that hadn’t seen combat since 2020.Images of armed fighters triumphantly arriving on major streets in Syria’s second-largest city quickly circulated. “The rebels have reached Aleppo, praise be to God. This is the city where I was born, from which I was displaced. The city where I faced death, where I lived both the best and worst days of my life,” said Abdelkafi al-Hamdo, an English teacher who fled Aleppo after its fall to regime forces and has been living...
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