According to information obtained by AA from local sources, anti-Assad regime groups in Syria are entering the center of the city of Deir ez-Zor, which is held by the terrorist organization PKK/YPG after the collapse of the Baath regime.
On December 6, the army of the collapsed regime withdrew some of its forces stationed in the Deir ez-Zor province in the east of the country, on the Iraqi border, and left the city center to the occupation of the terrorist organization PKK/YPG.
WHAT HAPPENED?
The conflict started between Assad regime forces and anti-regime armed groups on November 27 in the western countryside of Aleppo province in northern Syria.
Anti-regime groups, which captured most of the center of Aleppo from the regime forces on November 30, gained control throughout Idlib on the same day. The groups captured the city center of Hama from the regime forces on December 5, after fierce clashes.
Anti-regime groups began to advance by capturing some settlements in the strategically important Homs province, which opens to the capital Damascus.
The military opposition, which launched an operation in Syria’s Dera province on the Jordan border on December 6, took back the provincial center from the regime forces after the clashes.
The entire Suwayda province in the south of the country was under the control of opposition groups on December 7. On the same day, local opponents in Quneitra also took control of the provincial center.
The groups advancing against the Assad regime forces in the southwest of Damascus also entered the southern suburbs of the capital on December 7.
In the Homs province, which opens to the capital, anti-regime forces took control of the city center on December 7.
Tel Rifat district center was liberated from terrorism during the Dawn of Freedom Operation launched by the Syrian National Army against the terrorist organization PKK/YPG on December 1 in the Aleppo countryside.