The Syrian Armed Forces have recently resumed full possession of the Hanano district, in the eastern part of Aleppo. The district, the first area occupied by the Islamist militants in the 2012, was the symbol of the anti-Assad rebellion.
The battle, which lasted three days, was conducted by the assault departments of the Tiger Forces, by the paramilitaries of the Falcons of the Desert and from units of Republican Guard.
The outcome of the battle has a great strategic importance because it allows to cut horizontally the eastern districts of the city still in the hands of Fatah Halab, the Islamist militants present in that area of the metropolitan front.
The Citadel of Aleppo, in the hands of loyalist forces, is now little more than 1 km and the rebel forces risk being divided into two sections with no more communications.
The definitive reconquest of Aleppo, which now appears only as a matter of time, would free thousands of Syrian soldiers from the front ready to be redeployed elsewhere and would mean the inevitable and definitive collapse of the anti-Assad consortium, born in 2011, the year in which the Syrian war.
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