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Calculated Shard: 149 (from laksa061)

2. Crawled Status Check

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa149.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://apnews.com/article/syria-hts-assad-aleppo-fighting-2be43ee530b7932b123a0f26b158ac22\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://apnews.com/article/syria-hts-assad-aleppo-fighting-2be43ee530b7932b123a0f26b158ac22\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syria-hts-assad-aleppo-fighting-2be43ee530b7932b123a0f26b158ac22","crawl_time":1776232881,"first_indexed_time":1732918947,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,apnews!\/article\/syria-hts-assad-aleppo-fighting-2be43ee530b7932b123a0f26b158ac22 s443","src_root_hash":"13170802201813479149","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"What to know about Syria's 13-year civil war | AP News","meta_descriptions":["The 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence with rebels' surprise capture of Aleppo, one of the country’s largest cities and an ancient hub of Middle East culture and commerce."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"WASHINGTON (AP) — The 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence\nwith a surprise rebel offensive\nthat captured Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities and an ancient hub of Middle East culture and commerce. The push is the rebels’ strongest in years in a war whose destabilizing effects have rippled far beyond the country’s borders.\nIt was the first opposition attack on Aleppo since 2016, when a brutal Russian air campaign retook the northwestern city for Syrian President Bashar Assad after rebel forces had seized it. Intervention by Russia, Iran and Iranian-allied Hezbollah and other groups has allowed Assad to remain in power within the 70% of Syria under his control.\nInsurgents led by the jihadi group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched the two-pronged\nattack on Aleppo\nlast week and moved into the countryside around Idlib and neighboring Hama province. The Syrian military and its foreign allies have rushed reinforcements and launched airstrikes as they attempted to stall their momentum.\nThe surge in fighting has raised the prospect of another violent front reopening in the Middle East, at a time when U.S.-backed Israel is fighting Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, both Iranian-allied groups.\n0 seconds of 53 seconds\nVolume 90%\nPress shift question mark to access a list of keyboard shortcuts\n00:00\n00:53\n00:53\nThe 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence with a surprise rebel offensive on Wednesday that captured Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities and an ancient hub of Middle East culture and commerce.\n5 MIN READ\n1 MIN READ\n2 MIN READ\nRobert Ford, the last-serving U.S. ambassador to Syria, pointed to months of Israeli strikes on Syrian and Hezbollah targets in the area, and to Israel’s ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon last week, as factors providing Syria’s rebels with the opportunity to advance. Russia, Assad’s main international backer, is also preoccupied with its war in Ukraine.\nHere’s a look at some of the key aspects of the new fighting:\nWhy does the fighting in Aleppo matter?\nThe long war between Assad and his foreign backers and the array of opposition forces seeking his overthrow has killed an estimated half-million people and fractured Syria. It started as one of the popular uprisings against Arab dictators in the 2011 Arab Spring, before Assad’s crushing of what had been largely peaceful protests turned the conflict violent. Some 6.8 million Syrians have fled the country since then, a refugee flow that helped change the political map in Europe by fueling anti-immigrant far-right movements.\nThe roughly 30% of the country not under Assad is controlled by a range of opposition forces and foreign troops. The U.S. has about 900 troops in northeast Syria, far from Aleppo, to guard against a resurgence by the Islamic State group. Both the U.S. and Israel conduct occasional strikes in Syria against government forces and Iran-allied militias. Turkey has forces in Syria as well, and has influence with the broad alliance of opposition forces storming Aleppo.\nComing after years with few sizeable changes in territory between Syria’s warring parties, the fighting “has the potential to be really quite, quite consequential and potentially game-changing,” if Syrian government forces prove unable to hold their ground, said Charles Lister, a longtime Syria analyst with the U.S.-based Middle East Institute.\nRisks include if militants with the IS see the renewed fighting as an opening, Lister said. The IS, a violently anti-Western and repressive organization, in 2014 notoriously declared a self-styled caliphate that seized parts of Syria and Iraq, until the U.S. military intervened to help roll it back. The group’s Syria and Iraq branch no longer controls any territory and is not known to be playing a role in the current fighting. But it’s still a lethal force operating through sleeper cells in the two countries.\nFord said the fighting in Aleppo would become more broadly destabilizing if it drew Russia and Turkey — each with its own interests to protect in Syria — into direct heavy fighting against each other.\nWhat do we know about the group leading the offensive on Aleppo?\nThe U.S. and U.N. have long designated the opposition force leading the attack at Aleppo —\nHayat Tahrir al-Sham, known by its initials HTS\n— as a terrorist organization.\nAbu Mohammed al-Golani emerged as the leader of al-Qaida’s Syria branch in 2011, in the first months of Syria’s war. It was an unwelcome intervention to many in Syria’s opposition, who hoped to keep the fight against Assad’s rule untainted by violent extremism.\nGolani and his group early on claimed responsibility for deadly bombings, pledged to attack Western forces, confiscated property from religious minorities and sent religious police to enforce modest dress by women.\nGolani and HTS have sought to remake themselves in recent years, focusing on promoting civilian government in their territory as well as military action,\nresearcher Aaron Zelin noted.\nHis group broke ties with al-Qaida in 2016. Golani cracked down on some extremist groups in his territory, and increasingly portrays himself as a protector of other religions. That includes last year allowing the first Christian Mass in the city of Idlib in years.\nBy 2018, the Trump administration acknowledged it was no longer directly targeting Golani, Zelin said. But HTS has allowed some wanted armed groups to continue to operate on its territory, and shot at U.S. special forces at least as recently as 2022, he said.\nWhat’s the history of Aleppo in the war?\nAt the crossroads of trade routes and empires for thousands of years, Aleppo with its bustling neighborhoods and ancient landmarks in the 2010s saw some of the fiercest fighting of Syria’s civil war.\nAleppo was home to 2.3 million people before the conflict. Rebels seized the east side of the city in 2012, and it became the proudest symbol of the advance of armed opposition factions.\nIn 2016, government forces backed by Russian airstrikes laid siege to the city. Russian shells, missiles and crude barrel bombs — fuel canisters or other containers loaded with explosives and metal — methodically leveled neighborhoods. Starving and under siege, rebels surrendered Aleppo that year.\nThe Russian military’s entry was the turning point in the war, allowing Assad to stay on in the territory he held.\nThis year,\nIsraeli airstrikes in Aleppo\nhave hit Hezbollah weapons depots and Syrian forces, among other targets, according to an independent monitoring group. Israel rarely acknowledges strikes at Aleppo and other government-held areas of Syria.","attrs_markdown":"[Enable accessibility](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syria-hts-assad-aleppo-fighting-2be43ee530b7932b123a0f26b158ac22)\n\n**0**\n\n[![AP Logo](https:\/\/assets.apnews.com\/19\/66\/bc546486408c8595f01753a9fbeb\/ap-logo-176-by-208.svg)](https:\/\/apnews.com\/)\n\nMenu\n\n- [World](https:\/\/apnews.com\/world-news)\n  \n  SECTIONS\n  \n  [Iran war](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/iran) [Russia-Ukraine war](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine) [Español](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/noticias) [China](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/china) [Asia Pacific](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/asia-pacific) [Latin America](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/latin-america) [Europe](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/europe) [Africa](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/africa)\n  \n  TOP STORIES\n  \n  - [Diplomats try to arrange more US-Iran talks during first full day of American blockade](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-iran-war-lebanon-israel-talks-hormuz-14-april-2026-24655d40b2d968c39949e5ec2e01535b)\n  - [US families contest Italian law restricting citizenship by descent in highest court](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/italy-citizenship-law-court-families-9e033d213a83500b812fda2aa9177b8d)\n  - [Spain finalizes amnesty measure for potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/spain-immigration-amnesty-legal-european-union-migrants-255b9c28a05c496851864b60f0766008)\n  \n  Newsletters\n  \n  [The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day.](https:\/\/apnews.com\/newsletters?id=Morning+Wire+Subscribers)\n  \n  [The Afternoon Wire Get caught up on what you may have missed throughout the day.](https:\/\/apnews.com\/newsletters?id=Afternoon+Wire)\n  \n  [See All Newsletters](https:\/\/apnews.com\/newsletters)\n- [U.S.](https:\/\/apnews.com\/us-news)\n  \n  SECTIONS\n  \n  [Immigration](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/immigration) [Weather](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/weather) [Education](https:\/\/apnews.com\/education) [Transportation](https:\/\/apnews.com\/us-news\/transportation) [Abortion](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/abortion) [LGBTQ+](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/lgbtq) [Notable Deaths](https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/obituaries)\n  \n  TOP STORIES\n  \n  - [Gov. 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Thousands of Syrian insurgents have fanned out inside Syria's largest city Aleppo a day after storming it with little resistance from government troops.(AP Photo\/Omar Albam)](https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/9bcfeb2\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F03%2F3b%2Fd3d592cf388bb45fdc09003d2dd2%2F0533145b068d4453a497fee6f9984428)\n\n4 of 9 \\|\n\nThe bodies of Syrian army soldiers and allied fighters lie next to a Syrian army vehicle after being allegedly killed in combat by opposition fighters in Aleppo, Syria, early Saturday Nov. 30, 2024. Thousands of Syrian insurgents have fanned out inside Syria’s largest city Aleppo a day after storming it with little resistance from government troops.(AP Photo\/Omar Albam)\n\nRead More\n\n![Opposition forces take control of areas outside Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo\/Ghaith Alsayed)](data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIzOTlweCIgd2lkdGg9IjU5OXB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=)\n\n5 of 9 \\|\n\nOpposition forces take control of areas outside Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo\/Ghaith Alsayed)\n\nRead More\n\n![Opposition forces take control of areas outside Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo\/Ghaith Alsayed)](data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIzOTlweCIgd2lkdGg9IjU5OXB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=)\n\n6 of 9 \\|\n\nOpposition forces take control of areas outside Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo\/Ghaith Alsayed)\n\nRead More\n\n![Syrian opposition fighters drive a seized seized Syrian army armoured vehicle near the town of Khan Assubul, Syria, southwest of Aleppo, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. Syrian opposition insurgency launched a campaign on Wednesday with a two-pronged attack on Aleppo and the countryside around Idlib.(AP Photo\/Ghaith Alsayed)](data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIzOTlweCIgd2lkdGg9IjU5OXB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=)\n\n7 of 9 \\|\n\nSyrian opposition fighters drive a seized seized Syrian army armoured vehicle near the town of Khan Assubul, Syria, southwest of Aleppo, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. Syrian opposition insurgency launched a campaign on Wednesday with a two-pronged attack on Aleppo and the countryside around Idlib.(AP Photo\/Ghaith Alsayed)\n\nRead More\n\n![Syrian opposition fighters drive by an abandoned Syrian army armoured vehicle on a highway in the outskirts of in Khan Sheikhoun, southwest of Aleppo, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. Syrian opposition insurgency launched a campaign on Wednesday with a two-pronged attack on Aleppo and the countryside around Idlib.(AP Photo\/Ghaith Alsayed)](data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIzOTlweCIgd2lkdGg9IjU5OXB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=)\n\n8 of 9 \\|\n\nSyrian opposition fighters drive by an abandoned Syrian army armoured vehicle on a highway in the outskirts of in Khan Sheikhoun, southwest of Aleppo, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. Syrian opposition insurgency launched a campaign on Wednesday with a two-pronged attack on Aleppo and the countryside around Idlib.(AP Photo\/Ghaith Alsayed)\n\nRead More\n\n![A defaced portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad lies on the ground in the town of Maarat al-Numan, southwest from Aleppo, Syria, Saturday Nov. 30, 2024. Thousands of Syrian insurgents have fanned out inside Syria's largest city Aleppo and large areas around previously controlled by the government with little resistance from troops.(AP Photo\/Omar Albam)](data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIzOTlweCIgd2lkdGg9IjU5OXB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=)\n\n9 of 9 \\|\n\nA defaced portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad lies on the ground in the town of Maarat al-Numan, southwest from Aleppo, Syria, Saturday Nov. 30, 2024. 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The push is the rebels’ strongest in years in a war whose destabilizing effects have rippled far beyond the country’s borders.\n\nIt was the first opposition attack on Aleppo since 2016, when a brutal Russian air campaign retook the northwestern city for Syrian President Bashar Assad after rebel forces had seized it. Intervention by Russia, Iran and Iranian-allied Hezbollah and other groups has allowed Assad to remain in power within the 70% of Syria under his control.\n\nInsurgents led by the jihadi group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched the two-pronged [attack on Aleppo](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syria-insurgents-aleppo-iran-russia-turkey-abff93e4f415ebfd827d49b1a90818e8) last week and moved into the countryside around Idlib and neighboring Hama province. The Syrian military and its foreign allies have rushed reinforcements and launched airstrikes as they attempted to stall their momentum.\n\nThe surge in fighting has raised the prospect of another violent front reopening in the Middle East, at a time when U.S.-backed Israel is fighting Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, both Iranian-allied groups.\n\n0 seconds of 53 secondsVolume 90%\n\nPress shift question mark to access a list of keyboard shortcuts\n\nKeyboard Shortcuts\n\nEnabledDisabled\n\nShortcuts Open\/Close\/ or ?\n\nPlay\/PauseSPACE\n\nIncrease Volume↑\n\nDecrease Volume↓\n\nSeek Forward→\n\nSeek Backward←\n\nCaptions On\/Offc\n\nFullscreen\/Exit Fullscreenf\n\nMute\/Unmutem\n\nDecrease Caption Size\\-\n\nIncrease Caption Size\\+ or =\n\nSeek %0-9\n\n0\\.5x\n\n1x\n\n1\\.25x\n\n1\\.5x\n\n2x\n\nlinkedin\n\nEmail\n\nx\n\nreddit\n\nLink\n\nhttps:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/syria-middle-east-war-and-unrest-rebellions-and-uprisings-4a761ec178bf4280a786076c4da70651\n\nCopied\n\nAuto480p\n\n1920p\n\n1280p\n\n960p\n\n640p\n\n480p\n\n320p\n\nLive\n\n00:00\n\n00:53\n\n00:53\n\nThe 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence with a surprise rebel offensive on Wednesday that captured Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities and an ancient hub of Middle East culture and commerce.\n\nRelated Stories\n\n[![Syrian Kurds hold lit torches as they celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, in the village of Basuta in the Afrin countryside, Syria, Friday, March 20, 2026. 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Russia, Assad’s main international backer, is also preoccupied with its war in Ukraine.\n\nHere’s a look at some of the key aspects of the new fighting:\n\n## Why does the fighting in Aleppo matter?\nThe long war between Assad and his foreign backers and the array of opposition forces seeking his overthrow has killed an estimated half-million people and fractured Syria. It started as one of the popular uprisings against Arab dictators in the 2011 Arab Spring, before Assad’s crushing of what had been largely peaceful protests turned the conflict violent. Some 6.8 million Syrians have fled the country since then, a refugee flow that helped change the political map in Europe by fueling anti-immigrant far-right movements.\n\nThe roughly 30% of the country not under Assad is controlled by a range of opposition forces and foreign troops. The U.S. has about 900 troops in northeast Syria, far from Aleppo, to guard against a resurgence by the Islamic State group. Both the U.S. and Israel conduct occasional strikes in Syria against government forces and Iran-allied militias. Turkey has forces in Syria as well, and has influence with the broad alliance of opposition forces storming Aleppo.\n\nComing after years with few sizeable changes in territory between Syria’s warring parties, the fighting “has the potential to be really quite, quite consequential and potentially game-changing,” if Syrian government forces prove unable to hold their ground, said Charles Lister, a longtime Syria analyst with the U.S.-based Middle East Institute.\n\nRisks include if militants with the IS see the renewed fighting as an opening, Lister said. The IS, a violently anti-Western and repressive organization, in 2014 notoriously declared a self-styled caliphate that seized parts of Syria and Iraq, until the U.S. military intervened to help roll it back. The group’s Syria and Iraq branch no longer controls any territory and is not known to be playing a role in the current fighting. But it’s still a lethal force operating through sleeper cells in the two countries.\n\nFord said the fighting in Aleppo would become more broadly destabilizing if it drew Russia and Turkey — each with its own interests to protect in Syria — into direct heavy fighting against each other.\n\n## What do we know about the group leading the offensive on Aleppo?\nThe U.S. and U.N. have long designated the opposition force leading the attack at Aleppo — [Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, known by its initials HTS](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syria-idlib-turkey-algolani-hayat-tahrir-alsham-54a2af9fe90f10d68795e329a65c9b4d) — as a terrorist organization.\n\nAbu Mohammed al-Golani emerged as the leader of al-Qaida’s Syria branch in 2011, in the first months of Syria’s war. It was an unwelcome intervention to many in Syria’s opposition, who hoped to keep the fight against Assad’s rule untainted by violent extremism.\n\nGolani and his group early on claimed responsibility for deadly bombings, pledged to attack Western forces, confiscated property from religious minorities and sent religious police to enforce modest dress by women.\n\nGolani and HTS have sought to remake themselves in recent years, focusing on promoting civilian government in their territory as well as military action, [researcher Aaron Zelin noted.](https:\/\/www.washingtoninstitute.org\/policy-analysis\/age-political-jihadism-study-hayat-tahrir-al-sham) His group broke ties with al-Qaida in 2016. Golani cracked down on some extremist groups in his territory, and increasingly portrays himself as a protector of other religions. That includes last year allowing the first Christian Mass in the city of Idlib in years.\n\nBy 2018, the Trump administration acknowledged it was no longer directly targeting Golani, Zelin said. But HTS has allowed some wanted armed groups to continue to operate on its territory, and shot at U.S. special forces at least as recently as 2022, he said.\n\n## What’s the history of Aleppo in the war?\nAt the crossroads of trade routes and empires for thousands of years, Aleppo with its bustling neighborhoods and ancient landmarks in the 2010s saw some of the fiercest fighting of Syria’s civil war.\n\nAleppo was home to 2.3 million people before the conflict. Rebels seized the east side of the city in 2012, and it became the proudest symbol of the advance of armed opposition factions.\n\nIn 2016, government forces backed by Russian airstrikes laid siege to the city. Russian shells, missiles and crude barrel bombs — fuel canisters or other containers loaded with explosives and metal — methodically leveled neighborhoods. Starving and under siege, rebels surrendered Aleppo that year.\n\nThe Russian military’s entry was the turning point in the war, allowing Assad to stay on in the territory he held.\n\nThis year, [Israeli airstrikes in Aleppo](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syria-israel-aleppo-airstrikes-jibreen-hezbollah-9071d4193c522953550ce8467fecc724) have hit Hezbollah weapons depots and Syrian forces, among other targets, according to an independent monitoring group. Israel rarely acknowledges strikes at Aleppo and other government-held areas of Syria.\n\n[ELLEN KNICKMEYER](https:\/\/apnews.com\/author\/ellen-knickmeyer)\n\nKnickmeyer covers foreign policy and national security for The Associated Press. 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All Rights Reserved.\n\n- [twitter](https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP)\n- [instagram](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/apnews\/)\n- [facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/APNews)\n\n![](https:\/\/sb.scorecardresearch.com\/p?c1=2&c2=3005041&cv=4.4.0&cj=1&comscorekw=World%20News)","attrs_readable_markdown":"WASHINGTON (AP) — The 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence [with a surprise rebel offensive](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syria-attack-clashes-aleppo-9c07da6f83036f34d4b18a479de9d085) that captured Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities and an ancient hub of Middle East culture and commerce. The push is the rebels’ strongest in years in a war whose destabilizing effects have rippled far beyond the country’s borders.\n\nIt was the first opposition attack on Aleppo since 2016, when a brutal Russian air campaign retook the northwestern city for Syrian President Bashar Assad after rebel forces had seized it. Intervention by Russia, Iran and Iranian-allied Hezbollah and other groups has allowed Assad to remain in power within the 70% of Syria under his control.\n\nInsurgents led by the jihadi group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched the two-pronged [attack on Aleppo](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syria-insurgents-aleppo-iran-russia-turkey-abff93e4f415ebfd827d49b1a90818e8) last week and moved into the countryside around Idlib and neighboring Hama province. The Syrian military and its foreign allies have rushed reinforcements and launched airstrikes as they attempted to stall their momentum.\n\nThe surge in fighting has raised the prospect of another violent front reopening in the Middle East, at a time when U.S.-backed Israel is fighting Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, both Iranian-allied groups.\n\n0 seconds of 53 secondsVolume 90%\n\nPress shift question mark to access a list of keyboard shortcuts\n\n00:00\n\n00:53\n\n00:53\n\nThe 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence with a surprise rebel offensive on Wednesday that captured Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities and an ancient hub of Middle East culture and commerce.\n\n[![Syrian Kurds hold lit torches as they celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, in the village of Basuta in the Afrin countryside, Syria, Friday, March 20, 2026. (AP Photo\/Ghaith Alsayed)](https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/3e6c834\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F70%2Fe6%2Fa82bf577d354f33fec688d1f68ee%2Fb255c61d755d42a3bdaefbd478fcaaa0)](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syria-kurds-afrin-nowruz-730b2cf7c477bfdcaf898d212c8dced9)\n\n5 MIN READ\n\n[![Extras stand by as a television crew films an episode of the TV series \"Al-Souriyoun al-Aada\" (\"The Syrian Enemies\"), based on a novel of the same name that was banned under Bashar Assad, along a transformed street in central Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo\/Ghaith Alsayed)](https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/e58c2c7\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F93%2F83%2Fdc9d10523706a44a813ebead1a53%2F47265ba882fc4de8aabe8c5923d1e612)](https:\/\/apnews.com\/photo-gallery\/syria-tv-dramas-drama-33662096f5e43ca46900c4511abf63b0)\n\n1 MIN READ\n\n[![Women wait outside a medical center in the al-Hol camp, one of the detention facilities holding thousands of Islamic State group members and their families, now under the control of the Syrian government following the withdrawal of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in al-Hassakeh province, northeastern Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. (AP Photo\/Ghaith Alsayed)](https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/f9ba06c\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/6000x4000+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fa1%2Ffc%2Fba3ac0055fb6b7fc13afbd8b6610%2F83889f5b82d44fbd9d33a705ee161278)](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syria-camp-alhol-islamic-state-emptied-6527081227b4aec678b58355a3c8c3b3)\n\n2 MIN READ\n\nRobert Ford, the last-serving U.S. ambassador to Syria, pointed to months of Israeli strikes on Syrian and Hezbollah targets in the area, and to Israel’s ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon last week, as factors providing Syria’s rebels with the opportunity to advance. Russia, Assad’s main international backer, is also preoccupied with its war in Ukraine.\n\nHere’s a look at some of the key aspects of the new fighting:\n\n## Why does the fighting in Aleppo matter?\nThe long war between Assad and his foreign backers and the array of opposition forces seeking his overthrow has killed an estimated half-million people and fractured Syria. It started as one of the popular uprisings against Arab dictators in the 2011 Arab Spring, before Assad’s crushing of what had been largely peaceful protests turned the conflict violent. Some 6.8 million Syrians have fled the country since then, a refugee flow that helped change the political map in Europe by fueling anti-immigrant far-right movements.\n\nThe roughly 30% of the country not under Assad is controlled by a range of opposition forces and foreign troops. The U.S. has about 900 troops in northeast Syria, far from Aleppo, to guard against a resurgence by the Islamic State group. Both the U.S. and Israel conduct occasional strikes in Syria against government forces and Iran-allied militias. Turkey has forces in Syria as well, and has influence with the broad alliance of opposition forces storming Aleppo.\n\nComing after years with few sizeable changes in territory between Syria’s warring parties, the fighting “has the potential to be really quite, quite consequential and potentially game-changing,” if Syrian government forces prove unable to hold their ground, said Charles Lister, a longtime Syria analyst with the U.S.-based Middle East Institute.\n\nRisks include if militants with the IS see the renewed fighting as an opening, Lister said. The IS, a violently anti-Western and repressive organization, in 2014 notoriously declared a self-styled caliphate that seized parts of Syria and Iraq, until the U.S. military intervened to help roll it back. The group’s Syria and Iraq branch no longer controls any territory and is not known to be playing a role in the current fighting. But it’s still a lethal force operating through sleeper cells in the two countries.\n\nFord said the fighting in Aleppo would become more broadly destabilizing if it drew Russia and Turkey — each with its own interests to protect in Syria — into direct heavy fighting against each other.\n\n## What do we know about the group leading the offensive on Aleppo?\nThe U.S. and U.N. have long designated the opposition force leading the attack at Aleppo — [Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, known by its initials HTS](https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syria-idlib-turkey-algolani-hayat-tahrir-alsham-54a2af9fe90f10d68795e329a65c9b4d) — as a terrorist organization.\n\nAbu Mohammed al-Golani emerged as the leader of al-Qaida’s Syria branch in 2011, in the first months of Syria’s war. It was an unwelcome intervention to many in Syria’s opposition, who hoped to keep the fight against Assad’s rule untainted by violent extremism.\n\nGolani and his group early on claimed responsibility for deadly bombings, pledged to attack Western forces, confiscated property from religious minorities and sent religious police to enforce modest dress by women.\n\nGolani and HTS have sought to remake themselves in recent years, focusing on promoting civilian government in their territory as well as military action, [researcher Aaron Zelin noted.](https:\/\/www.washingtoninstitute.org\/policy-analysis\/age-political-jihadism-study-hayat-tahrir-al-sham) His group broke ties with al-Qaida in 2016. Golani cracked down on some extremist groups in his territory, and increasingly portrays himself as a protector of other religions. That includes last year allowing the first Christian Mass in the city of Idlib in years.\n\nBy 2018, the Trump administration acknowledged it was no longer directly targeting Golani, Zelin said. But HTS has allowed some wanted armed groups to continue to operate on its territory, and shot at U.S. special forces at least as recently as 2022, he said.\n\n## What’s the history of Aleppo in the war?\nAt the crossroads of trade routes and empires for thousands of years, Aleppo with its bustling neighborhoods and ancient landmarks in the 2010s saw some of the fiercest fighting of Syria’s civil war.\n\nAleppo was home to 2.3 million people before the conflict. Rebels seized the east side of the city in 2012, and it became the proudest symbol of the advance of armed opposition factions.\n\nIn 2016, government forces backed by Russian airstrikes laid siege to the city. 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Boilerpipe Text	WASHINGTON (AP) — The 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence with a surprise rebel offensive that captured Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities and an ancient hub of Middle East culture and commerce. The push is the rebels’ strongest in years in a war whose destabilizing effects have rippled far beyond the country’s borders. It was the first opposition attack on Aleppo since 2016, when a brutal Russian air campaign retook the northwestern city for Syrian President Bashar Assad after rebel forces had seized it. Intervention by Russia, Iran and Iranian-allied Hezbollah and other groups has allowed Assad to remain in power within the 70% of Syria under his control. Insurgents led by the jihadi group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched the two-pronged attack on Aleppo last week and moved into the countryside around Idlib and neighboring Hama province. The Syrian military and its foreign allies have rushed reinforcements and launched airstrikes as they attempted to stall their momentum. The surge in fighting has raised the prospect of another violent front reopening in the Middle East, at a time when U.S.-backed Israel is fighting Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, both Iranian-allied groups. 0 seconds of 53 seconds Volume 90% Press shift question mark to access a list of keyboard shortcuts 00:00 00:53 00:53 The 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence with a surprise rebel offensive on Wednesday that captured Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities and an ancient hub of Middle East culture and commerce. 5 MIN READ 1 MIN READ 2 MIN READ Robert Ford, the last-serving U.S. ambassador to Syria, pointed to months of Israeli strikes on Syrian and Hezbollah targets in the area, and to Israel’s ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon last week, as factors providing Syria’s rebels with the opportunity to advance. Russia, Assad’s main international backer, is also preoccupied with its war in Ukraine. Here’s a look at some of the key aspects of the new fighting: Why does the fighting in Aleppo matter? The long war between Assad and his foreign backers and the array of opposition forces seeking his overthrow has killed an estimated half-million people and fractured Syria. It started as one of the popular uprisings against Arab dictators in the 2011 Arab Spring, before Assad’s crushing of what had been largely peaceful protests turned the conflict violent. Some 6.8 million Syrians have fled the country since then, a refugee flow that helped change the political map in Europe by fueling anti-immigrant far-right movements. The roughly 30% of the country not under Assad is controlled by a range of opposition forces and foreign troops. The U.S. has about 900 troops in northeast Syria, far from Aleppo, to guard against a resurgence by the Islamic State group. Both the U.S. and Israel conduct occasional strikes in Syria against government forces and Iran-allied militias. Turkey has forces in Syria as well, and has influence with the broad alliance of opposition forces storming Aleppo. Coming after years with few sizeable changes in territory between Syria’s warring parties, the fighting “has the potential to be really quite, quite consequential and potentially game-changing,” if Syrian government forces prove unable to hold their ground, said Charles Lister, a longtime Syria analyst with the U.S.-based Middle East Institute. Risks include if militants with the IS see the renewed fighting as an opening, Lister said. The IS, a violently anti-Western and repressive organization, in 2014 notoriously declared a self-styled caliphate that seized parts of Syria and Iraq, until the U.S. military intervened to help roll it back. The group’s Syria and Iraq branch no longer controls any territory and is not known to be playing a role in the current fighting. But it’s still a lethal force operating through sleeper cells in the two countries. Ford said the fighting in Aleppo would become more broadly destabilizing if it drew Russia and Turkey — each with its own interests to protect in Syria — into direct heavy fighting against each other. What do we know about the group leading the offensive on Aleppo? The U.S. and U.N. have long designated the opposition force leading the attack at Aleppo — Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, known by its initials HTS — as a terrorist organization. Abu Mohammed al-Golani emerged as the leader of al-Qaida’s Syria branch in 2011, in the first months of Syria’s war. It was an unwelcome intervention to many in Syria’s opposition, who hoped to keep the fight against Assad’s rule untainted by violent extremism. Golani and his group early on claimed responsibility for deadly bombings, pledged to attack Western forces, confiscated property from religious minorities and sent religious police to enforce modest dress by women. Golani and HTS have sought to remake themselves in recent years, focusing on promoting civilian government in their territory as well as military action, researcher Aaron Zelin noted. His group broke ties with al-Qaida in 2016. Golani cracked down on some extremist groups in his territory, and increasingly portrays himself as a protector of other religions. That includes last year allowing the first Christian Mass in the city of Idlib in years. By 2018, the Trump administration acknowledged it was no longer directly targeting Golani, Zelin said. But HTS has allowed some wanted armed groups to continue to operate on its territory, and shot at U.S. special forces at least as recently as 2022, he said. What’s the history of Aleppo in the war? At the crossroads of trade routes and empires for thousands of years, Aleppo with its bustling neighborhoods and ancient landmarks in the 2010s saw some of the fiercest fighting of Syria’s civil war. Aleppo was home to 2.3 million people before the conflict. Rebels seized the east side of the city in 2012, and it became the proudest symbol of the advance of armed opposition factions. In 2016, government forces backed by Russian airstrikes laid siege to the city. Russian shells, missiles and crude barrel bombs — fuel canisters or other containers loaded with explosives and metal — methodically leveled neighborhoods. Starving and under siege, rebels surrendered Aleppo that year. The Russian military’s entry was the turning point in the war, allowing Assad to stay on in the territory he held. This year, Israeli airstrikes in Aleppo have hit Hezbollah weapons depots and Syrian forces, among other targets, according to an independent monitoring group. Israel rarely acknowledges strikes at Aleppo and other government-held areas of Syria.
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Syrian opposition insurgency launched a campaign on Wednesday with a two-pronged attack on Aleppo and the countryside around Idlib.(AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)](data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIzOTlweCIgd2lkdGg9IjU5OXB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=) 7 of 9 \\| Syrian opposition fighters drive a seized seized Syrian army armoured vehicle near the town of Khan Assubul, Syria, southwest of Aleppo, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. Syrian opposition insurgency launched a campaign on Wednesday with a two-pronged attack on Aleppo and the countryside around Idlib.(AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed) Read More ![Syrian opposition fighters drive by an abandoned Syrian army armoured vehicle on a highway in the outskirts of in Khan Sheikhoun, southwest of Aleppo, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. Syrian opposition insurgency launched a campaign on Wednesday with a two-pronged attack on Aleppo and the countryside around Idlib.(AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)](data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIzOTlweCIgd2lkdGg9IjU5OXB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=) 8 of 9 \\| Syrian opposition fighters drive by an abandoned Syrian army armoured vehicle on a highway in the outskirts of in Khan Sheikhoun, southwest of Aleppo, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. Syrian opposition insurgency launched a campaign on Wednesday with a two-pronged attack on Aleppo and the countryside around Idlib.(AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed) Read More ![A defaced portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad lies on the ground in the town of Maarat al-Numan, southwest from Aleppo, Syria, Saturday Nov. 30, 2024. Thousands of Syrian insurgents have fanned out inside Syria's largest city Aleppo and large areas around previously controlled by the government with little resistance from troops.(AP Photo/Omar Albam)](data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIzOTlweCIgd2lkdGg9IjU5OXB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=) 9 of 9 \\| A defaced portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad lies on the ground in the town of Maarat al-Numan, southwest from Aleppo, Syria, Saturday Nov. 30, 2024. Thousands of Syrian insurgents have fanned out inside Syria’s largest city Aleppo and large areas around previously controlled by the government with little resistance from troops.(AP Photo/Omar Albam) Read More By [ELLEN KNICKMEYER](https://apnews.com/author/ellen-knickmeyer) Updated 3:22 PM GMT, December 2, 2024 Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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The push is the rebels’ strongest in years in a war whose destabilizing effects have rippled far beyond the country’s borders. It was the first opposition attack on Aleppo since 2016, when a brutal Russian air campaign retook the northwestern city for Syrian President Bashar Assad after rebel forces had seized it. Intervention by Russia, Iran and Iranian-allied Hezbollah and other groups has allowed Assad to remain in power within the 70% of Syria under his control. Insurgents led by the jihadi group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched the two-pronged [attack on Aleppo](https://apnews.com/article/syria-insurgents-aleppo-iran-russia-turkey-abff93e4f415ebfd827d49b1a90818e8) last week and moved into the countryside around Idlib and neighboring Hama province. The Syrian military and its foreign allies have rushed reinforcements and launched airstrikes as they attempted to stall their momentum. The surge in fighting has raised the prospect of another violent front reopening in the Middle East, at a time when U.S.-backed Israel is fighting Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, both Iranian-allied groups. 0 seconds of 53 secondsVolume 90% Press shift question mark to access a list of keyboard shortcuts Keyboard Shortcuts EnabledDisabled Shortcuts Open/Close/ or ? 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Here’s a look at some of the key aspects of the new fighting: ## Why does the fighting in Aleppo matter? The long war between Assad and his foreign backers and the array of opposition forces seeking his overthrow has killed an estimated half-million people and fractured Syria. It started as one of the popular uprisings against Arab dictators in the 2011 Arab Spring, before Assad’s crushing of what had been largely peaceful protests turned the conflict violent. Some 6.8 million Syrians have fled the country since then, a refugee flow that helped change the political map in Europe by fueling anti-immigrant far-right movements. The roughly 30% of the country not under Assad is controlled by a range of opposition forces and foreign troops. The U.S. has about 900 troops in northeast Syria, far from Aleppo, to guard against a resurgence by the Islamic State group. Both the U.S. and Israel conduct occasional strikes in Syria against government forces and Iran-allied militias. Turkey has forces in Syria as well, and has influence with the broad alliance of opposition forces storming Aleppo. Coming after years with few sizeable changes in territory between Syria’s warring parties, the fighting “has the potential to be really quite, quite consequential and potentially game-changing,” if Syrian government forces prove unable to hold their ground, said Charles Lister, a longtime Syria analyst with the U.S.-based Middle East Institute. Risks include if militants with the IS see the renewed fighting as an opening, Lister said. The IS, a violently anti-Western and repressive organization, in 2014 notoriously declared a self-styled caliphate that seized parts of Syria and Iraq, until the U.S. military intervened to help roll it back. The group’s Syria and Iraq branch no longer controls any territory and is not known to be playing a role in the current fighting. But it’s still a lethal force operating through sleeper cells in the two countries. Ford said the fighting in Aleppo would become more broadly destabilizing if it drew Russia and Turkey — each with its own interests to protect in Syria — into direct heavy fighting against each other. ## What do we know about the group leading the offensive on Aleppo? The U.S. and U.N. have long designated the opposition force leading the attack at Aleppo — [Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, known by its initials HTS](https://apnews.com/article/syria-idlib-turkey-algolani-hayat-tahrir-alsham-54a2af9fe90f10d68795e329a65c9b4d) — as a terrorist organization. Abu Mohammed al-Golani emerged as the leader of al-Qaida’s Syria branch in 2011, in the first months of Syria’s war. It was an unwelcome intervention to many in Syria’s opposition, who hoped to keep the fight against Assad’s rule untainted by violent extremism. Golani and his group early on claimed responsibility for deadly bombings, pledged to attack Western forces, confiscated property from religious minorities and sent religious police to enforce modest dress by women. Golani and HTS have sought to remake themselves in recent years, focusing on promoting civilian government in their territory as well as military action, [researcher Aaron Zelin noted.](https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/age-political-jihadism-study-hayat-tahrir-al-sham) His group broke ties with al-Qaida in 2016. Golani cracked down on some extremist groups in his territory, and increasingly portrays himself as a protector of other religions. That includes last year allowing the first Christian Mass in the city of Idlib in years. By 2018, the Trump administration acknowledged it was no longer directly targeting Golani, Zelin said. But HTS has allowed some wanted armed groups to continue to operate on its territory, and shot at U.S. special forces at least as recently as 2022, he said. ## What’s the history of Aleppo in the war? At the crossroads of trade routes and empires for thousands of years, Aleppo with its bustling neighborhoods and ancient landmarks in the 2010s saw some of the fiercest fighting of Syria’s civil war. Aleppo was home to 2.3 million people before the conflict. Rebels seized the east side of the city in 2012, and it became the proudest symbol of the advance of armed opposition factions. In 2016, government forces backed by Russian airstrikes laid siege to the city. Russian shells, missiles and crude barrel bombs — fuel canisters or other containers loaded with explosives and metal — methodically leveled neighborhoods. Starving and under siege, rebels surrendered Aleppo that year. The Russian military’s entry was the turning point in the war, allowing Assad to stay on in the territory he held. This year, [Israeli airstrikes in Aleppo](https://apnews.com/article/syria-israel-aleppo-airstrikes-jibreen-hezbollah-9071d4193c522953550ce8467fecc724) have hit Hezbollah weapons depots and Syrian forces, among other targets, according to an independent monitoring group. Israel rarely acknowledges strikes at Aleppo and other government-held areas of Syria. [ELLEN KNICKMEYER](https://apnews.com/author/ellen-knickmeyer) Knickmeyer covers foreign policy and national security for The Associated Press. She is based in Washington, D.C. [twitter](https://twitter.com/EllenKnickmeyer) ## Conversation Follow this conversation to be notified when new comments are postedfollow Log in \\| Sign up All comments are subject to our [Community Guidelines](https://apnews.com/community-guidelines). 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Readable Markdown	WASHINGTON (AP) — The 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence [with a surprise rebel offensive](https://apnews.com/article/syria-attack-clashes-aleppo-9c07da6f83036f34d4b18a479de9d085) that captured Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities and an ancient hub of Middle East culture and commerce. The push is the rebels’ strongest in years in a war whose destabilizing effects have rippled far beyond the country’s borders. It was the first opposition attack on Aleppo since 2016, when a brutal Russian air campaign retook the northwestern city for Syrian President Bashar Assad after rebel forces had seized it. Intervention by Russia, Iran and Iranian-allied Hezbollah and other groups has allowed Assad to remain in power within the 70% of Syria under his control. Insurgents led by the jihadi group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched the two-pronged [attack on Aleppo](https://apnews.com/article/syria-insurgents-aleppo-iran-russia-turkey-abff93e4f415ebfd827d49b1a90818e8) last week and moved into the countryside around Idlib and neighboring Hama province. The Syrian military and its foreign allies have rushed reinforcements and launched airstrikes as they attempted to stall their momentum. The surge in fighting has raised the prospect of another violent front reopening in the Middle East, at a time when U.S.-backed Israel is fighting Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, both Iranian-allied groups. 0 seconds of 53 secondsVolume 90% Press shift question mark to access a list of keyboard shortcuts 00:00 00:53 00:53 The 13-year civil war in Syria has roared back into prominence with a surprise rebel offensive on Wednesday that captured Aleppo, one of Syria’s largest cities and an ancient hub of Middle East culture and commerce. 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(AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)](https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/f9ba06c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/6000x4000+0+0/resize/599x399!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fa1%2Ffc%2Fba3ac0055fb6b7fc13afbd8b6610%2F83889f5b82d44fbd9d33a705ee161278)](https://apnews.com/article/syria-camp-alhol-islamic-state-emptied-6527081227b4aec678b58355a3c8c3b3) 2 MIN READ Robert Ford, the last-serving U.S. ambassador to Syria, pointed to months of Israeli strikes on Syrian and Hezbollah targets in the area, and to Israel’s ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon last week, as factors providing Syria’s rebels with the opportunity to advance. Russia, Assad’s main international backer, is also preoccupied with its war in Ukraine. Here’s a look at some of the key aspects of the new fighting: ## Why does the fighting in Aleppo matter? The long war between Assad and his foreign backers and the array of opposition forces seeking his overthrow has killed an estimated half-million people and fractured Syria. It started as one of the popular uprisings against Arab dictators in the 2011 Arab Spring, before Assad’s crushing of what had been largely peaceful protests turned the conflict violent. Some 6.8 million Syrians have fled the country since then, a refugee flow that helped change the political map in Europe by fueling anti-immigrant far-right movements. The roughly 30% of the country not under Assad is controlled by a range of opposition forces and foreign troops. The U.S. has about 900 troops in northeast Syria, far from Aleppo, to guard against a resurgence by the Islamic State group. Both the U.S. and Israel conduct occasional strikes in Syria against government forces and Iran-allied militias. Turkey has forces in Syria as well, and has influence with the broad alliance of opposition forces storming Aleppo. Coming after years with few sizeable changes in territory between Syria’s warring parties, the fighting “has the potential to be really quite, quite consequential and potentially game-changing,” if Syrian government forces prove unable to hold their ground, said Charles Lister, a longtime Syria analyst with the U.S.-based Middle East Institute. Risks include if militants with the IS see the renewed fighting as an opening, Lister said. The IS, a violently anti-Western and repressive organization, in 2014 notoriously declared a self-styled caliphate that seized parts of Syria and Iraq, until the U.S. military intervened to help roll it back. The group’s Syria and Iraq branch no longer controls any territory and is not known to be playing a role in the current fighting. But it’s still a lethal force operating through sleeper cells in the two countries. Ford said the fighting in Aleppo would become more broadly destabilizing if it drew Russia and Turkey — each with its own interests to protect in Syria — into direct heavy fighting against each other. ## What do we know about the group leading the offensive on Aleppo? The U.S. and U.N. have long designated the opposition force leading the attack at Aleppo — [Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, known by its initials HTS](https://apnews.com/article/syria-idlib-turkey-algolani-hayat-tahrir-alsham-54a2af9fe90f10d68795e329a65c9b4d) — as a terrorist organization. Abu Mohammed al-Golani emerged as the leader of al-Qaida’s Syria branch in 2011, in the first months of Syria’s war. It was an unwelcome intervention to many in Syria’s opposition, who hoped to keep the fight against Assad’s rule untainted by violent extremism. Golani and his group early on claimed responsibility for deadly bombings, pledged to attack Western forces, confiscated property from religious minorities and sent religious police to enforce modest dress by women. Golani and HTS have sought to remake themselves in recent years, focusing on promoting civilian government in their territory as well as military action, [researcher Aaron Zelin noted.](https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/age-political-jihadism-study-hayat-tahrir-al-sham) His group broke ties with al-Qaida in 2016. Golani cracked down on some extremist groups in his territory, and increasingly portrays himself as a protector of other religions. That includes last year allowing the first Christian Mass in the city of Idlib in years. By 2018, the Trump administration acknowledged it was no longer directly targeting Golani, Zelin said. But HTS has allowed some wanted armed groups to continue to operate on its territory, and shot at U.S. special forces at least as recently as 2022, he said. ## What’s the history of Aleppo in the war? At the crossroads of trade routes and empires for thousands of years, Aleppo with its bustling neighborhoods and ancient landmarks in the 2010s saw some of the fiercest fighting of Syria’s civil war. Aleppo was home to 2.3 million people before the conflict. Rebels seized the east side of the city in 2012, and it became the proudest symbol of the advance of armed opposition factions. In 2016, government forces backed by Russian airstrikes laid siege to the city. Russian shells, missiles and crude barrel bombs — fuel canisters or other containers loaded with explosives and metal — methodically leveled neighborhoods. Starving and under siege, rebels surrendered Aleppo that year. The Russian military’s entry was the turning point in the war, allowing Assad to stay on in the territory he held. This year, [Israeli airstrikes in Aleppo](https://apnews.com/article/syria-israel-aleppo-airstrikes-jibreen-hezbollah-9071d4193c522953550ce8467fecc724) have hit Hezbollah weapons depots and Syrian forces, among other targets, according to an independent monitoring group. Israel rarely acknowledges strikes at Aleppo and other government-held areas of Syria.
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