The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced that armed opposition groups have taken control of 90 percent of Daraa province, including the city of Daraa. Regime forces had withdrawn from the region on the Jordanian border but announced that they have redeployed to southern Daraa and Suwayda provinces. The opposition reportedly also took control of the city center of Suwayda. Armed anti-regime groups announced that they have also taken control of the cities of Quneitra in the Golan region and Senameyn in the south. Opposition leader Hassan Abdulghani said they have advanced to within 20 kilometers of the southern gate of Damascus. The regime forces withdrawing from the east of the Euphrates River left the regions they controlled in Hasakah and Qamishli to the occupation of the terrorist organization PKK/YPG. A source close to Hezbollah announced that the organization sent 2,000 members to Syria.
The regime forces withdrawing from the east of the Euphrates River left the regions they controlled in Hasakah and Qamishli to the occupation of the terrorist organization PKK/YPG.
The provincial centers of Dera and Suweida on Syria’s Jordanian border have fallen under the control of opposition groups.
In a statement today, opposition groups announced that they have seized control of Quneitra in Syria’s Golan and the southern cities of Senameyn.
Opposition leader Hassan Abdulghani said that anti-regime forces have captured Sanamayn and advanced to within 20 kilometers of Damascus’ southern gate. he said.
Jordan announced yesterday that it closed its border with Syria.
Despite the ceasefire brokered by Assad’s ally Russia, clashes have been frequent in Dera in recent years.
“We call for a serious and credible political process to begin. This process can end the civil war with a political solution in line with UN Security Council resolution 2254,” US spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said.
The White House spokesman said that the Assad regime’s “reliance on Russia and Iran” created the conditions for the developments currently taking place in Syria, adding, “This includes the collapse of regime lines in the northeast.”
Yesterday, regime forces withdrew from the east of the city of Deir ez-Zor on the Iraqi border and handed it over to the terrorist organization PKK/YPG.
While Russia called on its citizens to leave Syria, the Israeli army sent reinforcements to the occupied Golan Heights.
