{"id":103590,"date":"2024-12-08T02:30:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T02:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/rebel-forces-claim-to-enter-damascus-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T02:30:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T02:30:52","slug":"rebel-forces-claim-to-enter-damascus-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/rebel-forces-claim-to-enter-damascus-news-urix-foreign-news-and-documentaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel forces claim to enter Damascus &#8211; news Urix &#8211; Foreign news and documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the news agency Reuters, the rebel forces in Syria state that they have begun to enter the capital, Damascus. The message came on the night of Sunday. The news agency refers, among other things, to two sources among the rebels. According to Reuters, there are no signs of the advance of forces in the capital. During the weekend, the rebel forces continued their advance with the aim of Damascus. The president out of the capital According to Reuters, two high-ranking Syrian officials say that President Bashar al-Assad has left Damascus. It is unknown where he is now seeking refuge. Bashar al-Assad has been president of Syria since 2000. The military withdrew On Saturday, several international media reported that the Syrian military had left the suburbs around Damascus. This applied, among other things, to the Mezzeh military airport, which lies between the capital and Deraa. AP Fighting the Assad regimeGovernment forces Led by President Bashar Al-Assad, he belongs to a Shia Muslim minority that has held power since the 1970s. Russia has supported the rebels by carrying out airstrikes. In addition, they have supplied weapons to Assad and used their veto power in the UN Security Council to block sanctions against the regime. Iran has trained Assad&#8217;s forces and supported Hezbollah, which fights on the regime&#8217;s side. OMAR HAJ KADOUR \/ AFP \/ NTB Fighting against the Assad regime Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) HTS is a Sunni Muslim military group, founded in 2017, and consists of former Al Qaeda groups. The group has mainly had control in the north of the country, especially Idlib &#8211; region. Has made major advances in the last week, and taken over control of cities such as Aleppo and Hama. Approaching Homs. AFP Other actors against the Assad regime The Kurds and the USA There are approximately 2 million Kurds living in Syria. Kurdish groups, especially the YPG, have fought against the Islamic State (IS) and at the same time worked for self-government in their areas of the country. The USA has supported the Kurds in the fight against IS , which has created tension with NATO country Turkey. AP Other actors against the Assad regimeTurkeyTurkey believes that the Kurdish groups are associated with the PKK, a Turkish Kurdish separatist group that Turkey considers a terrorist organisation. Therefore, Turkey has carried out military attacks in northern Syria to weaken these groups. AFP Brief on the civil war in Syria Started in 2011 with protests as part of the Arab Spring. The protests were met with violence by the government forces of the president. Over 500,000 people have lost their lives, and thousands of children have lost their parents. Millions of people have fled to the neighboring countries of Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. Germany took in around one million Syrian refugees during the refugee crisis in 2015. Published 08.12.2024, at 03.06 Updated 08.12.2024, at 03.28<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrk.no\/urix\/opprorsstyrkar-hevdar-a-ta-seg-inn-i-damaskus-1.17159958\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ttn-69 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the news agency Reuters, the rebel forces in Syria state that they have begun to enter the capital, Damascus. The message came on the night of Sunday. The news agency refers, among other things, to two sources among the rebels. According to Reuters, there are no signs of the advance of forces in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3755,18291,204,2749,367,203,16,11099,202],"class_list":["post-103590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-claim","tag-damascus","tag-documentaries","tag-enter","tag-forces","tag-foreign","tag-news","tag-rebel","tag-urix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}