Syrian rebel leader speaks to CNN in exclusive interview
CNN | Published December 6, 2024
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RELATED: Syria rebel leader says goal is to overthrow Assad
Beirut (Lebanon) (AFP) – Rebel forces pressing a lightning offensive in Syria aim to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, their Islamist leader said in an interview published on Friday.
A Syrian rebel fighter cheers as he enters the central city of Hama © Bakr ALKASEM / AFP
FRANCE24 | Published December 6, 2024
The Islamist-led rebels were at the gates of Syria’s Homs, a war monitor said, after wresting other key cities from government control.
In little over a week, the offensive has seen Syria’s second city Aleppo and strategically located Hama fall from President Bashar al-Assad’s control for the first time since the civil war began in 2011.
Should the rebels capture Homs, that would cut the seat of power in the capital Damascus from the Mediterranean coast, a key bastion of the Assad clan, which has ruled Syria for the past five decades.
By Friday morning, the rebels were just five kilometres (three miles) from the edge of Homs, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor.
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