{"id":9382,"date":"2024-12-03T14:16:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T10:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/militants-opening-up-new-anti-damascus-front-in-eastern-syria\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T14:16:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T10:46:48","slug":"militants-opening-up-new-anti-damascus-front-in-eastern-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/militants-opening-up-new-anti-damascus-front-in-eastern-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Militants opening up new anti-Damascus front in eastern Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5273482.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>A field source told Lebanon\u2019s al-Mayadeen television news channel on Monday that members of the so-called Dayr al-Zawr Military\u00a0Council have fortified their forces in seven villages east of the Euphrates River as part of preparation for an offensive on government-held positions.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian army forces, in return, have beefed up their combat preparedness, and vowed to respond decisively and forcefully to any militant attack, the source added.<\/p>\n<p>The source further highlighted that Iraqi resistance fighters have also pledged to assist Syrian government troops in their operations against militants from the Dayr al-Zawr Military\u00a0Council, and said they will firmly and mightily confront any act of adventurism in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are reports that US military artillery units are providing fire support for\u00a0the militants, who are led by the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).<\/p>\n<p>According to field reports, Syrian army\u00a0units have strengthened their defensive lines, repelled terrorist attacks, and prevented them from achieving any breakthroughs in two districts.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign-backed terrorists led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Shams (HTS) Takfiri group carried out a surprise\u00a0assault in the Aleppo and Idlib countryside last week, and overran a number of villages and towns before entering Aleppo on November 27.<\/p>\n<p>Syria has been gripped by foreign-sponsored militancy since March 2011.\u00a0Damascus has slammed\u00a0Western states and their regional allies for aiding terrorist groups to wreak havoc in the Arab country.<\/p>\n<p>Terror outfits are seeking to hinder the Syrian government\u2019s efforts aimed at consolidating security and stability in the country, which frequently comes under the Israeli regime\u2019s aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has been the principal supporter of terrorist groups that oppose the democratically-elected government of President Bashar al-Assad since the foreign-backed militancy erupted in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>MNA\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/225193\/Militants-opening-up-new-anti-Damascus-front-in-eastern-Syria\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A field source told Lebanon\u2019s al-Mayadeen television news channel on Monday that members of the so-called Dayr al-Zawr Military\u00a0Council have fortified their forces in seven villages east of the Euphrates River as part of preparation for an offensive on government-held positions. Syrian army forces, in return, have beefed up their combat preparedness, and vowed to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}