IMMEDIATE CONTEXT The Syrian government forces lost control of the country’s second-largest city—Aleppo, on Sunday for the first time since the conflict started in 2011 according to a war monitor. The onslaught started on Wednesday and coincided as Israel and Hezbollah were negotiating a fragile ceasefire in neighbouring Lebanon after two especially brutal months. With the exception of areas occupied by Kurdish forces, the rebels currently control nearly all of Aleppo.This operation seems to have been planned for some time by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which carried out major military drills in the months that preceded the attack. According to…
Author: ANANYA
Under an agreement negotiated by the United States and France, a Ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese group Hazbollah was undertaken on November 27th, 2024. Pre-existent distrust surrounding the weight of the deal in Lebanon intensified as Israeli attacks did not seem to come to a halt following its signing. A ceasefire agreement of undetermined fragility was finally reached on Wednesday following Israel’s war on Lebanon that continued for 14 long and agonising months which witnessed an escalation across the south in late September with a ground invasion and intense bombardments. It makes way for a 60-day halt to the…
