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12/07/2024December 7, 2024
Local groups take over most of Daraa province: War monitor
Local opposition groups have taken control of most of the southern Daraa province, including Daraa city, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
“Local factions have taken control of more areas in Daraa province, including Daraa city … they now control more than 90% of the province, as regime forces successively pulled out,” the Observatory said.
The developments in Daraa come as an Islamist-led rebel alliance has taken the key cities of and Hama in the north and center of the country in what is seen as a major challenge to President ‘s power.
Daraa province, which borders Jordan, was dubbed the “cradle of the revolution” early in ‘s civil war, which erupted in 2012.
It was there that activists accused the government of detaining and torturing a group of boys for writing anti-Assad slogans on walls at their school in 2011, leading to anti-regime protests that were brutally repressed.
The province has experienced considerable unrest in the past few years despite a truce brokered by Russia, one of Assad’s staunchest allies.
The opposition-affiliated Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has been monitoring the civil war in Syria by means of a wide network of witnesses on the ground.
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