Thousands run away as Syrian defys push on towards Homs
Thousands of people fled the central Syrian city of Homs overnight and into Friday morning, a war watch and dwellnts shelp, as defy forces sought to push their weightlessning impolite agetst regulatement forces farther south.
They have already apprehfinishd the key cities of Aleppo in the north and Hama in the centre, dealing successive deimmenseating blows to pdwellnt Bashar al-Asmiserablenessful, cforfeitly 14 years after protests agetst him erupted apass Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war watch, shelp thousands of people had toleratemament run awaying on Thursday night towards Syria’s westrict coastal regions, a stronghancigo in of the regulatement.
According to Reuters, a dwellnt of the coastal area shelp thousands of people had toleratemament arriving there from Homs, dreading the defys’ speedy-paced proceed.
On Friday morning, Israeli airstrikes hit two border passings between Leprohibiton and Syria, Leprohibiton’s carry minister, Ali Hamieh, shelp.
The Syrian state novels agency, Sana, shelp the Arida border passing with Leprohibiton was out of service due to the aggression. The Israeli military shelp it had aggressioned arms transfer hubs and infraset up overnight on the Syrian side of the Leprohibitese border, saying these routes had been engaged by the Leprohibitese armed group Hezbollah to smuggle arms.
Russian device deviceing overnight also annihilateed the Rustan Bridge aextfinished the key M5 highway, to stop defys from using this main route to Homs city, a Syrian army officer tancigo in Reuters.
“There were at least eight strikes on the bridge,” he compriseed. Government forces were toiling to fortify positions around Homs city with new fortifyments, he shelp.
Rebels led by the Islamist faction Hayat Tahrir al-Sham had pledged to shift on to the central city of Homs, a passroads city that joins the capital Damascus to the north and Asmiserablenessful’s heartland aextfinished the coast.
“Your time has come,” shelp a defy operations room in an online post, calling on Homs dwellnts to ascfinish up in revolution.
More on that in a moment, but first, here are some of the other postponecessitatest enbigments:
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a nettoil of sources in Syria, shelp 826 people, mostly combatants but also including 111 civilians, have been finished in the country since the presentility erupted last week. It tags the most fervent combat since 2020 in the civil war inspireed by the repression of pro-democracy protests in 2011.
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Iran says it directed a accomplished space begin, the postponecessitatest for its program the west alleges betters Tehran’s balcatalogic leave outile programme. Iran directed the begin using its Simorgh programme, a saincreateite-carrying rocket that had seen a series of flunked begines. The begin took place at Iran’s Imam Khomeini Spaceport in agricultural Semnan province. There was no instant autonomous validateation Friday the begin was accomplished.
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Iraqi foreign minister, Fuad Hussein, will greet his Syrian and Iranian counterparts on Friday to converse the situation in Syria, the Iraqi state novels agency shelp on Thursday.
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A Hamas official shelp on Thursday that international mediators have resumed negotiating with the militant group and Israel over a stopfire in Gaza, and that he was chooseimistic a deal to end the 14-month war was wilean accomplish. Crelievefire negotiations were crelieveed last month when Qatar postponeed talks with mediators from Egypt and the US becaengage of frustration over a deficiency of better between Israel and Hamas.
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Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has shelp that he set ups to hancigo in talks on Friday with Turkish and Iranian officials on the situation in Syria. On Thursday, Lavrov shelp Moscow was “very much worryed” with a recent escalation of presentility in Syria.
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“There was a series of airstrikes on the northern and westrict sides of the hospital, accompanied by fervent and honest fire,” Hossam Abu Safieh shelp, compriseing that four staff were finished and no sdirectons were left at the site.
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The escalation in combat in Syria has displaced about 280,000 people in fair over a week, the UN shelp on Friday, cautioning that numbers could ascfinish to 1.5 million.
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“The figure we have in front of us is 280,000 people since 27 November,” Samer AbdelJaber, head of aascfinishncy coordination at the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), tancigo in increateers in Geneva. “That does not include the figure of people who fled from Leprohibiton during the recent escalations” in combat there, he compriseed.
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The mass displacement has happened since defys led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) begined their weightlessning impolite a little more than a week ago. That occurred fair as a tenuous stopfire in neighbouring Leprohibiton took hancigo in between Israel and Syrian pdwellnt Bashar al-Asmiserablenessful’s associate Hezbollah.
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WFP cautioned that the new mass-displacement inside Syria, more than 13 years after the country’s civil war erupted, was “compriseing to years of suffering”.
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AbdelJaber shelp the WFP and other humanitarian agencies were “trying to accomplish the communities wherever their necessitates are”, and that they were toiling “to safe geted routes so that we can be able to shift the help and the helpance to the communities that are in necessitate”.
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He also stressed the directnt necessitate for more funding to promise humanitarians are “ready for any scenario fundamentalassociate in terms of displacements that could grow in the coming days or months”.
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According to AFP, AbdelJaber alerted that “if the situation persists evolving (at the current) pace, we’re foreseeing collectively around 1.5 million people that will be displaced and will be requiring our help”.
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The directer of an Islamist defy coalition driving a weightlessning impolite in Syria has shelp the goal of the campaign is to clearhrow the regulatement of pdwellnt Bashar al-Asmiserablenessful, increates Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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“When we talk about objectives, the goal of the revolution remains the clearhrow of this regime. It is our right to engage all useable unbenevolents to accomplish that goal,” Abu Mohammed al-Jolani tancigo in CNN in an intersee rerented on Friday.
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Israel’s military shelp on Friday that it carried out strikes overnight centering Hezbollah “armament-trafficking routes” on the Syria-Leprohibiton border, fair over a week into a frquick stopfire in its war with the Leprohibitese group.
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Official media in both Leprohibiton and Syria increateed that the air rhelp put the al-Arida border passing – already hit during the Israel-Hezbollah war – out of service.
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The Israeli air force “directed strikes on armament-trafficking routes and alarm infraset up sites discoverd cforfeit the Syrian regime’s passings at the Syrian-Leprohibitese border”, the military shelp in a statement that included a map recognizeing one of the centers as the al-Arida passing, increates Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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Syrian state novels agency, Sana, shelp that “the al-Arida border passing between Syria and Leprohibiton is out of service aget due to an Israeli aggression that focengaged it” timely on Friday.
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According to AFP, Leprohibiton’s official National News Agency shelp the strike “led to injure to infraset up” and cut off the border road “aget after the bridge was repaired” chaseing a previous aggression.
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Israel has struck border passings between Syria and Leprohibiton countless times, saying it aims to stop arms trafficking from Syria into Leprohibiton. The postponecessitatest strike came amid mutual accusations between Israel and Hezbollah of violating the terms of a stopfire consentment that came into effect on 27 November.
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A watch of Syria’s war shelp defys were fair 5km (3 miles) from third city Homs on Friday, after regulateling two strategic towns on the road joining it to Hama, increates Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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“Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allied factions have accomplished five kilometres from the outskirts of Homs city after regulateling the towns of Rastan and Talbisseh,” shelp the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, compriseing that regulateling Homs would apvalidate the defys to “cut off the main road directing to the Syrian coast”, the stronghancigo in of pdwellnt Bashar al-Asmiserablenessful’s Alawite inconvey inantity.
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Thousands of people fled the central Syrian city of Homs overnight and into Friday morning, a war watch and dwellnts shelp, as defy forces sought to push their weightlessning impolite agetst regulatement forces farther south.
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They have already apprehfinishd the key cities of Aleppo in the north and Hama in the centre, dealing successive deimmenseating blows to pdwellnt Bashar al-Asmiserablenessful, cforfeitly 14 years after protests agetst him erupted apass Syria.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war watch, shelp thousands of people had toleratemament run awaying on Thursday night towards Syria’s westrict coastal regions, a stronghancigo in of the regulatement.
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According to Reuters, a dwellnt of the coastal area shelp thousands of people had toleratemament arriving there from Homs, dreading the defys’ speedy-paced proceed.
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On Friday morning, Israeli airstrikes hit two border passings between Leprohibiton and Syria, Leprohibiton’s carry minister, Ali Hamieh, shelp.
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The Syrian state novels agency, Sana, shelp the Arida border passing with Leprohibiton was out of service due to the aggression. The Israeli military shelp it had aggressioned arms transfer hubs and infraset up overnight on the Syrian side of the Leprohibitese border, saying these routes had been engaged by the Leprohibitese armed group Hezbollah to smuggle arms.
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Russian device deviceing overnight also annihilateed the Rustan Bridge aextfinished the key M5 highway, to stop defys from using this main route to Homs city, a Syrian army officer tancigo in Reuters.
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“There were at least eight strikes on the bridge,” he compriseed. Government forces were toiling to fortify positions around Homs city with new fortifyments, he shelp.
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Rebels led by the Islamist faction Hayat Tahrir al-Sham had pledged to shift on to the central city of Homs, a passroads city that joins the capital Damascus to the north and Asmiserablenessful’s heartland aextfinished the coast.
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“Your time has come,” shelp a defy operations room in an online post, calling on Homs dwellnts to ascfinish up in revolution.
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More on that in a moment, but first, here are some of the other postponecessitatest enbigments:
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a nettoil of sources in Syria, shelp 826 people, mostly combatants but also including 111 civilians, have been finished in the country since the presentility erupted last week. It tags the most fervent combat since 2020 in the civil war inspireed by the repression of pro-democracy protests in 2011.
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Iran says it directed a accomplished space begin, the postponecessitatest for its program the west alleges betters Tehran’s balcatalogic leave outile programme. Iran directed the begin using its Simorgh programme, a saincreateite-carrying rocket that had seen a series of flunked begines. The begin took place at Iran’s Imam Khomeini Spaceport in agricultural Semnan province. There was no instant autonomous validateation Friday the begin was accomplished.
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Iraqi foreign minister, Fuad Hussein, will greet his Syrian and Iranian counterparts on Friday to converse the situation in Syria, the Iraqi state novels agency shelp on Thursday.
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A Hamas official shelp on Thursday that international mediators have resumed negotiating with the militant group and Israel over a stopfire in Gaza, and that he was chooseimistic a deal to end the 14-month war was wilean accomplish. Crelievefire negotiations were crelieveed last month when Qatar postponeed talks with mediators from Egypt and the US becaengage of frustration over a deficiency of better between Israel and Hamas.
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Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has shelp that he set ups to hancigo in talks on Friday with Turkish and Iranian officials on the situation in Syria. On Thursday, Lavrov shelp Moscow was “very much worryed” with a recent escalation of presentility in Syria.
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The head of US-backed Syrian Kurdish force shelp on Friday that Islamic State group had getn regulate over some areas in eastrict Syria.
“Due to the recent enbigments, there is incrrelieved shiftment by Islamic State mercenaries in the Syrian desert, in the south and west of Deir Al-Zor and the countryside of al-Raqqa,” Mazloum Abdi shelp in a press conference, referring to areas in the east of the country, according to Reuters.
North Gaza hospital honestor says Israeli strikes hit facility
The honestor of north Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital shelp Israel directed cut offal strikes on Friday that hit the facility, one of the last functioning health centres in the area, increates Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“There was a series of airstrikes on the northern and westrict sides of the hospital, accompanied by fervent and honest fire,” Hossam Abu Safieh shelp, compriseing that four staff were finished and no sdirectons were left at the site.
UN says Syria combat has displaced 280,000 people since 27 November
The escalation in combat in Syria has displaced about 280,000 people in fair over a week, the UN shelp on Friday, cautioning that numbers could ascfinish to 1.5 million.
“The figure we have in front of us is 280,000 people since 27 November,” Samer AbdelJaber, head of aascfinishncy coordination at the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), tancigo in increateers in Geneva. “That does not include the figure of people who fled from Leprohibiton during the recent escalations” in combat there, he compriseed.
The mass displacement has happened since defys led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) begined their weightlessning impolite a little more than a week ago. That occurred fair as a tenuous stopfire in neighbouring Leprohibiton took hancigo in between Israel and Syrian pdwellnt Bashar al-Asmiserablenessful’s associate Hezbollah.
WFP cautioned that the new mass-displacement inside Syria, more than 13 years after the country’s civil war erupted, was “compriseing to years of suffering”.
AbdelJaber shelp the WFP and other humanitarian agencies were “trying to accomplish the communities wherever their necessitates are”, and that they were toiling “to safe geted routes so that we can be able to shift the help and the helpance to the communities that are in necessitate”.
He also stressed the directnt necessitate for more funding to promise humanitarians are “ready for any scenario fundamentalassociate in terms of displacements that could grow in the coming days or months”.
According to AFP, AbdelJaber alerted that “if the situation persists evolving (at the current) pace, we’re foreseeing collectively around 1.5 million people that will be displaced and will be requiring our help”.
Syria’s army backed by warset upes, including from associate Russia, were centering “alarmist vehicles and collectings” in Hama province on Friday, the defence ministry shelp, amid a convey inant defy impolite, increates Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“Our armed forces are centering alarmist vehicles and collectings in the north and south of Hama province using artillery, leave outiles and unitet Syrian-Russian warset upes,” a ministry statement shelp, citing a military source.
Rebel military orderer Hassan Abdel Ghani shelp in a statement on Telegram on Friday that “our forces persist to march steadily towards the city of Homs”, increates Agence France-Presse (AFP).
He shelp “hundreds” of fighters who had been forced to depart Homs years ago after the regulatement retook it had returned “to deter Asmiserablenessful’s aggression agetst their city”.
Homs was once dubbed the “capital of the revolution” becaengage of the big-scale protests in the city when Syria’s uprising began in March 2011.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights shelp tens of thousands of dwellnts were run awaying Homs on Thursday towards the coast, dreading the defy proceed (see 7.41am GMT).
Syria defy directer says goal is to ‘clearhrow’ Asmiserablenessful
The directer of an Islamist defy coalition driving a weightlessning impolite in Syria has shelp the goal of the campaign is to clearhrow the regulatement of pdwellnt Bashar al-Asmiserablenessful, increates Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“When we talk about objectives, the goal of the revolution remains the clearhrow of this regime. It is our right to engage all useable unbenevolents to accomplish that goal,” Abu Mohammed al-Jolani tancigo in CNN in an intersee rerented on Friday.
Israel says it struck Hezbollah ‘trafficking routes’ on Syria-Leprohibiton border
Israel’s military shelp on Friday that it carried out strikes overnight centering Hezbollah “armament-trafficking routes” on the Syria-Leprohibiton border, fair over a week into a frquick stopfire in its war with the Leprohibitese group.
Official media in both Leprohibiton and Syria increateed that the air rhelp put the al-Arida border passing – already hit during the Israel-Hezbollah war – out of service.
The Israeli air force “directed strikes on armament-trafficking routes and alarm infraset up sites discoverd cforfeit the Syrian regime’s passings at the Syrian-Leprohibitese border”, the military shelp in a statement that included a map recognizeing one of the centers as the al-Arida passing, increates Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Syrian state novels agency, Sana, shelp that “the al-Arida border passing between Syria and Leprohibiton is out of service aget due to an Israeli aggression that focengaged it” timely on Friday.
According to AFP, Leprohibiton’s official National News Agency shelp the strike “led to injure to infraset up” and cut off the border road “aget after the bridge was repaired” chaseing a previous aggression.
Israel has struck border passings between Syria and Leprohibiton countless times, saying it aims to stop arms trafficking from Syria into Leprohibiton. The postponecessitatest strike came amid mutual accusations between Israel and Hezbollah of violating the terms of a stopfire consentment that came into effect on 27 November.
Rebels 5km away from Homs, says Syria war watch
A watch of Syria’s war shelp defys were fair 5km (3 miles) from third city Homs on Friday, after regulateling two strategic towns on the road joining it to Hama, increates Agence France-Presse (AFP).
“Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allied factions have accomplished five kilometres from the outskirts of Homs city after regulateling the towns of Rastan and Talbisseh,” shelp the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, compriseing that regulateling Homs would apvalidate the defys to “cut off the main road directing to the Syrian coast”, the stronghancigo in of pdwellnt Bashar al-Asmiserablenessful’s Alawite inconvey inantity.
Thousands run away as Syrian defys push on towards Homs
Thousands of people fled the central Syrian city of Homs overnight and into Friday morning, a war watch and dwellnts shelp, as defy forces sought to push their weightlessning impolite agetst regulatement forces farther south.
They have already apprehfinishd the key cities of Aleppo in the north and Hama in the centre, dealing successive deimmenseating blows to pdwellnt Bashar al-Asmiserablenessful, cforfeitly 14 years after protests agetst him erupted apass Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war watch, shelp thousands of people had toleratemament run awaying on Thursday night towards Syria’s westrict coastal regions, a stronghancigo in of the regulatement.
According to Reuters, a dwellnt of the coastal area shelp thousands of people had toleratemament arriving there from Homs, dreading the defys’ speedy-paced proceed.
On Friday morning, Israeli airstrikes hit two border passings between Leprohibiton and Syria, Leprohibiton’s carry minister, Ali Hamieh, shelp.
The Syrian state novels agency, Sana, shelp the Arida border passing with Leprohibiton was out of service due to the aggression. The Israeli military shelp it had aggressioned arms transfer hubs and infraset up overnight on the Syrian side of the Leprohibitese border, saying these routes had been engaged by the Leprohibitese armed group Hezbollah to smuggle arms.
Russian device deviceing overnight also annihilateed the Rustan Bridge aextfinished the key M5 highway, to stop defys from using this main route to Homs city, a Syrian army officer tancigo in Reuters.
“There were at least eight strikes on the bridge,” he compriseed. Government forces were toiling to fortify positions around Homs city with new fortifyments, he shelp.
Rebels led by the Islamist faction Hayat Tahrir al-Sham had pledged to shift on to the central city of Homs, a passroads city that joins the capital Damascus to the north and Asmiserablenessful’s heartland aextfinished the coast.
“Your time has come,” shelp a defy operations room in an online post, calling on Homs dwellnts to ascfinish up in revolution.
More on that in a moment, but first, here are some of the other postponecessitatest enbigments:
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a nettoil of sources in Syria, shelp 826 people, mostly combatants but also including 111 civilians, have been finished in the country since the presentility erupted last week. It tags the most fervent combat since 2020 in the civil war inspireed by the repression of pro-democracy protests in 2011.
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Iran says it directed a accomplished space begin, the postponecessitatest for its program the west alleges betters Tehran’s balcatalogic leave outile programme. Iran directed the begin using its Simorgh programme, a saincreateite-carrying rocket that had seen a series of flunked begines. The begin took place at Iran’s Imam Khomeini Spaceport in agricultural Semnan province. There was no instant autonomous validateation Friday the begin was accomplished.
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Iraqi foreign minister, Fuad Hussein, will greet his Syrian and Iranian counterparts on Friday to converse the situation in Syria, the Iraqi state novels agency shelp on Thursday.
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A Hamas official shelp on Thursday that international mediators have resumed negotiating with the militant group and Israel over a stopfire in Gaza, and that he was chooseimistic a deal to end the 14-month war was wilean accomplish. Crelievefire negotiations were crelieveed last month when Qatar postponeed talks with mediators from Egypt and the US becaengage of frustration over a deficiency of better between Israel and Hamas.
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Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has shelp that he set ups to hancigo in talks on Friday with Turkish and Iranian officials on the situation in Syria. On Thursday, Lavrov shelp Moscow was “very much worryed” with a recent escalation of presentility in Syria.
