Syria: Russian strikes hit Aleppo
Newshour
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4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Syria's military has acknowledged that parts of Aleppo have fallen to Islamist rebels and that it's sustained dozens of casualties. It said it was withdrawing from parts of Syria's second city in order to regroup ahead of the arrival of reinforcements. Thousands of civilians cars have been leaving.
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(Photo: Rebels drive on the international M5 highway, a route into Aleppo, Syria. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.0 | Coming to you live from London, I'm James Kimmer-is-Sami. |
| 0:09.2 | And we begin today in Syria and the scramble to respond to a swift and unexpected advance |
| 0:14.7 | into the second city Aleppo by rebel forces. |
| 0:18.6 | Warplanes belonging to the Syrian government's main backer Russia have been in |
| 0:22.3 | action today, bombing targets in a city that saw one of the bloodiest and most protracted battles |
| 0:27.8 | of Syria's civil war. The end of that four-year siege of Aleppo made possible by Russian air strikes |
| 0:34.6 | proved to be a pivotal moment in the Syrian conflict, but not its conclusion. |
| 0:39.5 | While a war that's estimated to have claimed at least half a million lives may have lowered in intensity, |
| 0:44.9 | it has never ended, a combination of rebels and foreign forces control nearly a third of the country, |
| 0:50.2 | with American troops still stationed in the northeast of Syria to guard against a resurgence by the Islamic State Group. |
| 0:56.6 | Today, the Syrian army acknowledged it had sustained injuries when the rebels, led by the Islamist group HTS, |
| 1:02.8 | swept into Aleppo for the first time since they were driven out in 2016. |
| 1:07.6 | This rebel fighter Ali Juma said returning to his home city was a special moment. |
| 1:14.2 | Thanks to God, and after eight years of being displaced from it by the actions of the Assad family and its criminal machine, |
| 1:22.7 | today we return to Aleppo. We return to our country. I'm a son of Aleppo. I was displaced from it eight years ago in 2016. Thank God we've just returned. It's an indescribable thing to return to your country, your land, the place you were brought up in. |
| 1:41.1 | We will try to establish what has led to this advance and what it may portend in a moment. |
| 1:46.3 | But first, let's get the latest on what is happening inside Aleppo. |
| 1:49.7 | Joining us from Beirut is the BBC's Lena Sinjab. |
| 1:53.2 | Lena, the Syrian army, admitting that they've sustained injuries. |
| 1:58.2 | What do we know about the actual takeover of large parts of Aleppo? It sounds as |
| 2:04.7 | though it was relatively straightforward for the rebels. Well, this has operation started on |
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