According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the rebels, rapidly capturing one Syrian city after another, have reached the outskirts of Damascus.
Earlier, Syrian rebels announced that they had managed to take control of the city of Quneitra, located near the border with Israel.
Also, the forces of the Syrian armed opposition established control over the administrative center of Deraa and most of the province of the same name in the south of the country.
Since December 6, the city of Al-Sweida in southwestern Syria is no longer controlled by Assad’s army and has been completely captured by Druze militia forces. The rebels broke into the police station and opened the prison, releasing the prisoners. Flags and portraits of Bashar al-Assad were torn from the facades of buildings.
Earlier it was reported that the rebels captured the city of Dir al-Zur, in eastern Syria.
Forces of the jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, together with detachments of the pro-Turkish armed opposition, captured the Syrian city of Tal-Bise, 10 km north of Homs. The regular Syrian army fled without offering serious resistance.
As of December 6, jihadists and pro-Turkish forces had captured the major cities of Aleppo and Hama, as well as dozens of other settlements in the provinces of Idlib, Aleppo and Hama, in northern and central Syria.