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With Ukraine help, they are moving fast opening another front northwest of Syria, nearer to Russian Putin navy and airforce base, about 30 northwest of Syria. The HTS & other allied rebel factions, shown their fighting skill and op primarily in northwest. Tongue

Opposition forces take Syria’s Daraa, Sweida as Astana talks set up. Daraa, known as the ‘cradle of the revolution’ is fourth city al-Assad loses in a single week. Daraa-based opposition forces on Saturday said they seized control of the city, the fourth strategic loss for President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in a week.

Daraa was dubbed “the cradle of the revolution” early in Syria’s war as govt repression of protests failed to quell the people’s anger over the detention torture of a group of boys for scribbling anti-Assad graffiti on their school walls in 2011. In April of that year, regime besieged city, a move seen as having militarised revolution. Sweida is heartland Syria’s Druze minority has witnessed anti-govt demonstrations for more than a year, as the cost of living shot up and tens of thousands of Druze men refused to undertake compulsory military service. 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/7...to-be-held