The insurgents took over most of Aleppo on Saturday and made gains in the surrounding province.

Some came from Raqqa, once the seat of the self-proclaimed ISIS caliphate. Others came from Aleppo, where current Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa led a rebel offensive.

Fieldwork conducted in Aleppo and Raqqa governorates validated the remote observations, confirming visual evidence of looting and military installations on ancient mounds.

Militants from Syria’s Idlib de-escalation zone have shelled the regions of Latakia, Hama and outskirts of the city of Aleppo, Lieutenant General Sergei Solomatin, head of the Russian center for ...

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