The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed Syrian militia led by Syrian Kurdish forces, on Tuesday saw its fighters clash with Syrian government forces and seize control of seven villages near Deir ez-Zor, renewing its opposition to Syria. It was announced that a battle front might be opened. Dictator Bashar Assad's regime.
Meanwhile, Islamic rebels in western Syria said they had captured four more villages and further strengthened their grip on the regime.
The SDF is a coalition of Arab militias under the command of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG/YPJ). allies of the usa in fight against Islamic State.
The Turkish government considers the YPG to be allied with, or even indistinguishable from, the violent separatist group PKK. Turkey has invaded Syria several times to push the YPG back from the Turkish border and establish a border security zone. In these efforts, Turkey has allied itself with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an al-Qaeda offshoot that launched a blitzkrieg attack against the Syrian government last Thursday.
Self-Defense Forces said On Tuesday, Syrian government forces announced they were “now responsible for protecting” seven villages in eastern Syria that they had previously occupied. The SDF believes that the Syrian army has taken sufficient action to protect villagers from the chaos caused by HTS attacks, especially by Islamic State fighters who have been driven from their haunts by HTS and pushed into Kurdish territory. He explained that this action was necessary because the company had not taken the necessary steps.
Syrian government sources accused the SDF of opportunistically seizing territory while the military was busy trying to repel the HTS advance. Meanwhile, the SDF had withdrawn from the HTS offensive against Aleppo city, and there were sufficient personnel in Deir Ezzor to take action against villages held by the central government.
“The deployment of our troops to these villages is in response to the urgent pleas and appeals of the local population, given the growing potential risk that ISIS will exploit events in the west of the country. ” said the SDF. said In a statement.
Syrian state media claimed Although the military had “repulsed” SDF advances into disputed villages, the SDF appeared confident that it had the area under its control.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said He said he was “alarmed” by the rapid escalation in violence in Syria, where the brutal civil war that began in 2011 has been largely dormant since 2020.
“All parties must do everything in their power to protect civilians and civilian objects, including allowing safe passage of civilians fleeing hostilities.” said Guterres Press Secretary Stephane Dujarric.
“Syrian people have endured nearly 14 years of conflict. They deserve a political horizon that provides a peaceful future, not more bloodshed,” Dujarric said.
“Our office has documented a number of very disturbing incidents in which attacks by both Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS) and pro-government forces left civilians dead and injured, including a large number of women and children. “We are doing so,” the spokesperson added. To Mr. Volker Turk, United Nations Human Rights Commissioner.
Iran, which along with Russia supports the Assad regime, on Tuesday repeated It alleges that the United States and Israel are secretly behind attacks by “Takfir terrorist groups” (that is, terrorists masquerading as Muslims).
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called for “immediate and effective action” from the international community against the HTS attack in Syria.
Aragushi linked the resurgence of the Syrian civil war to Israel's “unrestrained and unprecedented atrocities against the Palestinian people” and “crimes against the Lebanese people,” which meant Israel's war against Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists, respectively.
Iran's foreign minister claimed that the US and Israel helped reorganize HTS after its defeat in the Syrian civil war, prompting the former al-Qaeda franchise to launch new attacks against the Assad regime.
Iranian state-run Press TV broadcast on Tuesday quoted Russian media reported that HTS terrorists claimed to be “planning chemical attacks in the northwestern provinces of Aleppo and Idlib.”
The report claimed that HTS used “ambulances and medical vehicles belonging to the so-called civil defense group White Helmets” to smuggle chemical weapons from secret bases into southern Idlib province.
The White Helmets are a civil defense group hated by President Assad and his backers in Russia and Iran. Syrian state media frequently accuses the White Helmets of supporting terrorists.
