This move by the Nujaba Movement was the latest in a shift in the power balance in Syria, Newsweek reported on Saturday. Sunni rebels launched a major offensive there against their Iran-backed enemies, who have been weakened by the protracted war with Israel.
Sunni Islamist terrorists from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, or the “Organization for the Liberation of the Levant’), an al-Qaeda splinter faction, and a number of allied rebel militias launched a major offensive in northern Syria on Wednesday, hours after Israel and Hezbollah entered a ceasefire. In the 13-and-a-half-month war against Israel, Hezbollah lost its entire top command, thousands of fighters, hundreds of strongholds and a majority of its ballistic arsenal. (Read More)