The Assad regime has collapsed in Syria. Armed anti-regime groups have begun to enter the center of Deir ez-Zor, which is occupied by the terrorist organization PKK/YPG, which is trying to gain territory in the east of the country. The army of the collapsed regime withdrew some of its forces stationed in Deir ez-Zor province on the Iraq border on December 6 and handed the region over to the terrorist organization PKK/YPG.
The Baath regime and the Assad family’s rule in Syria have collapsed. According to information obtained from local sources, anti-regime armed groups in Syria have begun entering the center of the city of Deir ez-Zor, which is held by the terrorist organization PKK/YPG following the collapse of the Baath regime.
REGIME FORCES WITHDRAWN FROM DEIR EEZ-ZOR On December 6, the collapsed regime’s army withdrew some of its forces stationed in the province of Deir ez-Zor on the Iraqi border in the east of the country. The Syrian Observatory announced that regime forces had withdrawn from the east of the city of Deir ez-Zor on the Iraqi border. The Syrian regime had handed over control of the city of Deir ez-Zor, on the Iraqi border, to the terrorist organization PKK/YPG.
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN SYRIA? Clashes broke out between Assad regime forces and anti-regime armed groups in the western countryside of Aleppo province in northern Syria on November 27. Having captured a large part of central Aleppo from regime forces on November 30, anti-regime groups took control of all of Idlib on the same day. Following fierce clashes, the groups captured the city center of Hama from regime forces on December 5. Anti-regime groups began advancing on some residential areas in the strategically important Homs province, which is an entrance to the capital Damascus. Military opposition forces launched an operation in the Daraa province on Syria’s border with Jordan on December 6 and recaptured the city center from regime forces following clashes.
THE CAPITAL HAS BEEN CAPTURED Groups advancing against Assad regime forces southwest of Damascus also entered the southern suburbs of the capital on December 7. In the province of Homs, which is an entrance to the capital, anti-regime forces took control of the city center on December 7. In Operation Freedom Dawn, which the Syrian National Army launched against the terrorist organization PKK/YPG in the Aleppo countryside on December 1, the Tel Rifaat district center was liberated from terrorism.
