Tasnim News Agency quoted Hossein Salami as saying that after the “strategic defeats” that it suffered, Israel On the Gaza and Lebanon fronts, “takfiri terrorist groups, under the leadership and direction of those defeated on the battlefields of Gaza and southern Lebanon, launched new brutal attacks on Syria In recent days.”
He added that these attacks “faced responses from the army and popular forces in this country.”
He pointed out that these crimes claimed the life of “the valiant and courageous commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Keumarth (Hashim) Pourhashemi (known as Hajj Hashem).”
He highlighted that “Hajj Hashem” is considered the chief Iranian military advisor in Syria.
What happened in Syria?
- Armed factions, led by… Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham “Formerly Al-Nusra Front”, on Wednesday, villages and towns in Aleppo Governorate, which is controlled by Bashar al-Assad’s government.
- In late 2016, the forces recovered Syrian army With the support of Russia, Iran and armed loyalist factions in the region, the entire city of Aleppo, and opposition fighters agreed to withdraw after months of bombing and siege in a battle that turned the tide against the opposition.
- Mustafa Abdel Jaber, one of the leaders of the opposition factions, said that the rapid progress was due to the lack of a sufficient number of militants supported by Iran In the governorate.
- On Saturday, the armed factions announced their control over 75 percent of Aleppo’s neighborhoods and imposed… curfew Evening in the neighborhoods.
- The factions reported that Aleppo It will be administratively affiliated with what is known as the Salvation Government, which is the Golani government that administers Idlib and its countryside.
- The death toll, both military and civilian, in the ongoing operation for its fourth day in the Idlib and Aleppo countrysides has reached 301 since dawn on November 27.
