Syrian army soldiers flash the victory sign in the province of Aleppo on Feb. 16, 2020, in this photo from the country's SANA news agency.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad congratulated his forces Monday for consolidating control over the entire province of Aleppo in northern Syria, pledging to press ahead with a military campaign to achieve complete victory “sooner or later.”
The new gains, along with securing a key highway that ran through rebel territory, are set to better link northern and southern Syria, including the city of Aleppo, which was Syria’s commercial centre before the war. “Our beloved people of Aleppo, I congratulate you for the victory. ... With it we will fight the bigger battle, the reconstruction of Aleppo and with the will of Syrians we will rebuild all of Syria and we will continue liberation, God willing,” said Assad, seated behind an empty wooden desk and wearing glasses.
Syrian rebels were driven out of the provincial capital’s eastern quarters in late 2016, which they had controlled for years while battling government forces in charge in the western section. However, rebel groups continued to target government forces from outside the city with mortar rounds. They also controlled large parts of western rural Aleppo province, territories that linked them to Idlib province, the last major rebel stronghold.
The armed opposition is squeezed into a shrinking area of Idlib province, where the government is also on the offensive, as well as the sliver of adjacent territory in western Aleppo. Separately, state media reported that Syrian authorities on Sunday had uncovered a mass grave containing nearly 70 bodies in eastern Ghouta, an area outside of Damascus that rebel fighters lost control of in April 2018.
Trump's pipe dream coming to a end. “We're here in Syria to bring peace just like the Russians.” ' I like the oil, we're keeping the oil'. “We are leaving soldiers to secure the oil.”
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