Syria's army has been forced to redeploy, in the biggest challenge to President Bashar al-Assad in years.
Rebel fighters in Aleppo, Syria, on Nov 30, following a bold assault which poses the biggest challenge to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in years.Anti-government fighters pose on a tank on the road leading to Maaret al-Numan in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on Nov 30.
The war, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced many millions, has ground on since 2011 with no formal end, although most major fighting halted years ago after Iran and Russia helped Mr Assad’s government win control of most land and all major cities. Overnight, images from Aleppo showed a group of rebel fighters gathered in the city’s Saadallah al-Jabiri Square, with a billboard of Mr Assad looming behind them.
The fighting revives the long-simmering Syrian conflict as the wider region is roiled by wars in Gaza and Lebanon, where
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