Iran has promised to aid Syria after rebels took control of the country’s second most populous city, Aleppo.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi traveled to Damascus on Sunday to express support for Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s regime and to affirm support for Assad in Syria’s ongoing civil war. The civil war, which began in 2011, reignited last week when antigovernment troops launched a surprise attack and took control of wide swaths of western Syria.
“We firmly support the Syrian army and government,” Araghchi said before leaving for Damascus on Sunday, Iranian state news reported. “The Syrian army will once again be victorious over these terrorist groups as in the past.”
The Assad regime has also received help from Moscow. Russian and Syrian fighter jets struck rebel-occupied areas over the weekend, including inside the city of Aleppo. One such strike killed a dozen people in a central part of the city, according to The Guardian.
The rebel forces are led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), or the Organization for the Liberation of the Levant. HTS began as Jabhat al-Nusra, an affiliate of the terror group al-Qaeda. The United States designated HTS a terror group in 2018. […]
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