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SYRIAN WAR, ONGOING

Timing, causes, stakes: How the rebel offensive has turned Syria upside down

On Friday night, Syrian armed opposition forces recaptured Aleppo, the country's second largest city, taking it away from the Assad regime's control.

Timing, causes, stakes: How the rebel offensive has turned Syria upside down

An anti-regime fighter tears up a portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo, after HTC-dominated opposition forces entered the northern Syrian city on Nov. 29. (Credit: Mohammed AL-Rifai/AFP)

Syrian armed opposition forces — of which Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is the dominant group — entered Aleppo on Friday for the first time since the city was recaptured by government forces in 2016, and they did so only three days after launching...
Syrian armed opposition forces — of which Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is the dominant group — entered Aleppo on Friday for the first time since the city was recaptured by government forces in 2016, and they did so only three days after launching...