UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting on Syrian conflict tomorrow: Report
UNSC to hold meeting on Syrian conflict.
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will hold an emergency meeting on the ongoing conflict in Syria on Tuesday (Dec. 3), the news agency AFP reported on Monday, citing diplomatic sources.
One of the sources told AFP that the meeting was requested by the Syrian government and backed byMozambique, Sierra Leone, Algeria, and Guyana.
Syria has been facing a civil war since 2012, and last week, the rebel factionslaunched a large-scale surprise attack on areas controlled by the government and seized territory in the country's northwestern region.
>The current offensive is being led byHayat Tahrir al-Sham, known by its initials HTS. The United States (US) and the United Nations (UN) have designated the HTS as a terrorist organisation.
> On Monday, Syrian PresidentBashar al-Assad's said that the offensive by rebel factions in his country's north was an attempt to redraw the map of the region. President Assad made this remarkduring a telephone conversation with his Iranian counterpartMasoud Pezeshkian.
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> "The terrorist escalation reflects the far-reaching goals of dividing the region and fragmenting the countries in it and redraw the map in line with the objectives of the United States and the West," a statement from Assad's office quoted him as saying.
> Iranian President Pezeshkian, meanwhile, pledged continued support to Damascus by saying, "We hope that with your tact, strength and fortitude, the country ofSyriawill pass through this stage with success and victory as it has passed through far more difficult conditions."
> The Assad government is supported by Iran as well as Russia. Both Tehran and Moscow have said that they would help Syrian government forcesfight back after Aleppo,Syria's second city, fell out of government control.
> Aleppo is home to more than two million people and saw fierce fighting earlier in the civil war.But until this weekend the rebels were never able to take over totally.
>The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that more than 500 people have been killed in last week's rebel offensive on government-controlled areas in the country's north.
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> On Monday, Syrian and Russian air raids on several areas of Idlib province in northwest Syria killed 11 civilians, including five children, the Observatory said.
> Turkey, which backs the rebel factions in Syria, rejected Monday any suggestion that "foreign interference" was behind last week's offensive.
> "It would be a mistake at this time to try to explain the events in Syria by any foreign interference," Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said at a joint press conference in Ankara with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi.
(With inputs from agencies)