President Bashar Assad’s workplace has denied rumors that he plans to desert Damascus to the terrorists
Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham (HTS) jihadists and different anti-government militias continued their advance in the direction of Damascus on Saturday, with HTS reportedly reaching town’s suburbs and the US-sponsored Free Syrian Military (FSA) seizing the traditional web site of Palmyra.
HTS, a bunch led by a former Al-Qaeda commander and beforehand often known as Jabhat al-Nusra, launched a shock offensive from the opposition-held province of Idlib in northern Syria final week, swiftly driving the Syrian Military from Aleppo and coming into the cities of Hama and Homs on the street south to Damascus.
With Kurdish militants battling authorities forces in Deir-ez-Zor to the east and Palmyra falling to the FSA, a number of Western media shops have claimed that Assad is making ready to flee the nation.
The president’s workplace, nevertheless, insists that he has no plans to depart Damascus. He has vowed to “eradicate” the rampaging jihadists and to punish their “sponsors and supporters.”
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