Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who promised this Sunday (1st) to crush the rebels who invaded the city of Aleppo. The meeting took place in the capital Damascus.
Araqchi described the situation in Syria as “difficult” but said Iran, a country allied with the Syrian government, was confident that Assad would overcome the rebels as he had done in the past, state media reported.
This Sunday, the Army said it had recaptured several cities that were invaded in recent days by rebels.
The insurgents are a coalition of armed groups backed by Türkiye, along with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an Islamist group that is the main opposition military force.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is designated a terrorist group by the United States, Russia, Türkiye and other countries.
Also this weekend, Russian and Syrian jets struck the rebel-held city of Idlib in northern Syria.
Understand the conflict in Syria
Syria’s civil war began during the Arab Spring in 2011, when the regime of Bashar al-Assad suppressed a pro-democracy uprising.
The country was plunged into full-scale conflict when a rebel force was formed, known as the Free Syrian Army, to fight government troops.
Furthermore, the Islamic State, a terrorist group, also managed to gain a foothold in the country and came to control 70% of Syrian territory.
Fighting escalated as other regional actors and world powers — from Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United States to Russia — joined in, escalating the country’s war into what some observers described as a “proxy war.”
Russia has allied with Bashar al-Assad’s government to combat the Islamic State and rebels, while the United States has led an international coalition to repel the terrorist group.
After a ceasefire agreement in 2020, the conflict remained largely “dormant”, with minor clashes between the rebels and the Assad regime.
More than 300,000 civilians have been killed in more than a decade of war, according to the UN, and millions of people have been displaced across the region.
This content was originally published in President of Syria meets with Chancellor of Iran amid conflict in the country on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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