Syria tracker: Maps and charts

Here’s what the concern connected the crushed looks similar arsenic of December 3, 2024.

Syrian jets, joined by Russian warplanes, person intensified aerial attacks connected Idlib and Aleppo to repel absorption fighters successful the northwest of the country.

On November 27, groups opposing the authorities of President Bashar al-Assad, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, launched a astonishment violative that captured ample parts of Aleppo, the country’s 2nd largest city.

The absorption forces’ accelerated gains are the astir important since 2016 and person thrust Syria’s assorted factions backmost into the spotlight.

How galore civilians person been killed?

According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), an autarkic organisation that has documented quality rights violations successful Syria since 2011, astatine slightest 104 civilians, including astatine slightest 27 children and 9 women, were killed successful Syria betwixt November 27 and December 1.

The latest unit marked the archetypal large onslaught against al-Assad’s forces successful the portion since the March 2020 Idlib ceasefire, brokered by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Over the past 4 years, Syrian authorities forces and Russians person repeatedly bombed northwest regime-held areas, sidesplitting hundreds.

Who controls what connected the ground?

The representation beneath shows the territorial power of assorted groups arsenic of December 3.

Four main groups are competing for power connected the crushed successful Syria. They are:

• Syrian authorities forces: The army, the government’s main subject force, fights alongside the National Defence Forces, a pro-government paramilitary group.
• Syrian Democratic Forces: This Kurdish-dominated, United States-backed radical controls parts of eastbound Syria.
• HTS and different allied absorption groups: The HTS is the largest warring unit and the strongest beingness successful opposition-held Idlib.
• Turkish and Turkish-aligned Syrian rebel forces: The Syrian National Army is simply a Turkish-backed rebel unit successful bluish Syria.

Who are Syria’s absorption fighters?

As the conflict against al-Assad’s authorities crushed connected successful Syria, fighters formed and re-formed alliances according to the realities connected the ground.

In this latest operation, galore warring groups are represented, clustered into alliances of varying sizes.

The 2 largest groupings are Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the National Front for Liberation, each of which comprises a fig of smaller groups.

All of the groups person agreed to combat nether the Military Operations Command, which is the newest iteration of the Fateh al-Mubin operations bid centre that has been operating successful the country for the past years.