In the past hours, the armed opposition factions in Syria were able to control villages, towns and military sites around the city of Hama, which is located in the center of the country and is far from the capital, Damascus (210 km) and from the city of Aleppo (135 km).

These factions are currently preparing to enter the city’s neighborhoods, according to what a media source from the ground confirmed to Al-Hurra website and two journalists who reside in Istanbul and whose families live in the city of Hama.

If the armed factions enter the city of Hama, this will be the first achievement of its kind since the beginning of the events of the revolution in 2011.

The factions entered the neighborhoods of the city of Aleppo yesterday, Friday, and took control of most of them, in addition to its international airport.

This came in parallel with its completion of the process of controlling the entire administrative borders of Idlib Governorate.

This comes after Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and its allies, on Saturday, took control of Aleppo International Airport and strategic towns in Idlib, after the "withdrawal" of government forces from them, according to what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

The Observatory reported that “Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham took control of Aleppo Airport,” the second largest international airport after Damascus, becoming the first civilian air facility under its control. This was accompanied by the advance of the opposition factions active with them to the northern countryside of Hama and eastern Idlib, where they took control of “dozens of strategic towns” there, according to the Observatory.

These factions, whose stronghold in northwestern Syria is Idlib Governorate, began an unprecedented attack on Wednesday on areas controlled by the Syrian army in Aleppo Governorate, and on Friday night they were able to enter the city of Aleppo, for the first time since the army, with Russian and Iranian support, regained control of the entire city in 2017. 2016.

Three days after its surprise attack, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (Al-Nusra Front before its disengagement from Al-Qaeda) now controls, along with allied opposition factions, "the majority of the city of Aleppo, government centers and prisons," according to what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

Since the start of the attack on Wednesday, military operations have resulted in the killing of at least 327 people, 183 of whom are members of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and the opposition factions, and 100 members of the Syrian army and groups loyal to it, in addition to 44 civilians, according to the latest toll by the Observatory.