All you need to know about Syria's latest attacks
The latest offensive by Syria's oppositional forces against President Bashar Assad's army and the Kurdish population in northeastern Syria, has ended four years of relatively static conflict in Syria's civil war.
On Wednesday, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, an Islamist militia, launched a surprise offensive against the government forces of President Bashar Assad.
On Friday, pro-Turkish rebels under the lead of HTS managed to seize Aleppo, Syria's second largest city, as well as scores of surrounding villages.
According to reports, their next attempt will be to take the city of Hama.
Nanar Hawach, senior Syria analyst at the International Crisis Group, an independent organization working to prevent wars, told DW that "on Sunday, heavy government reinforcement arrived at Hama and they started pushing HTS north, recapturing some towns and villages."
Hawach assumes a major counter-offensive is imminent, with the next phase of a "high intensity Syrian civil war all over again the next couple of weeks and months."
Hama has seen the trajectory of the civil war shift before, back in 2015.
After Syria's population had started pushing for democratic change in 2011, rebel groups were initially successful in their battle against government forces.
Yet, in 2015, Assad's troops were able to........
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