In Syria, anti-regime groups have captured the Rasten and Talbise districts in the strategically important Homs province, which is a gateway to the capital Damascus.
Anti-regime groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which has been clashing with the Syrian army since November 27 and has taken control of the city center of Hama, are advancing in Homs province.
In the morning hours, Rasten and Talbise districts, which are the gates of Homs province, were captured by anti-regime groups.
Rasten and Talbisa are located on the M5 highway, which connects Aleppo-Hama-Homs and extends to Damascus.
On November 27, clashes broke out between the Syrian army and anti-regime armed groups in the western countryside of Aleppo province in northern Syria.
Anti-regime groups, who captured most of central Aleppo from regime forces on November 30, took control of all of Idlib on the same day.
The groups also captured the city center of Hama on December 5 after fierce fighting.
In Operation Freedom Dawn, which the Syrian National Army launched against the YPG in the Aleppo countryside on December 1, the Tel Rifaat district center was captured.
According to BBC, In a video, Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani said his fighters had entered Hama to “cleanse the wound that has endured in Syria for 40 years”.
“I ask God almighty that it be a conquest with no revenge,” he added.
