🇸🇾⚡- HTS firing upon Babis, town in Assad-controlled western Aleppo, from their new positions around Hawr.

🇸🇾⚡- First visual confirmation of HTS presence inside Andzara, western Aleppo.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- Another squadron of Syrian and Russian jets have just lifted off.

🇷🇺🇰🇿⚡- Russian President Putin arrives in Kazakhstan.

🇸🇾⚡- SAA cluster striking HTS positions in western Aleppo.

🇸🇾⚡- The SAA has finally realized it will need military reinforcements. Convoys are heading to the north of the country.

🇸🇾 - Reports of Bastarun, Kafr Bissin and Andzara falling to the HTS are all false. The rumors are spread by Turkish and Turkish-backed outlets, such as Ehtemlat and al-Bab, that have no affiliation with Tahrir al-Sham.

HTS and HTS affiliated media have not confirmed the captures of these three towns, pro-Assad military journalists deny the rumors too.

Fighting still ongoing in all three.

🇸🇾⚡- Both sides report very heavy losses being inflicted on one other.

🇸🇾🇷🇺⚡- Another wave of airstrikes by Russian and Syrian jets.

🇸🇾⚡- Initial reports, Ahrar al-Tawhid have joined the side of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. This would mark the first group to be apart of the Joint Forces (SNA-backed) to partake in the Aleppo offensive.

🇸🇾⚡- Pro-Assad sources are finally confirming HTS advances, calling their retreats a "tactical withdrawal".

🇸🇾⚡- "The process of retreat and allowing terrorist groups [HTS] to enter the areas under our control has led to their death and the destruction of their vehicles," - Abdal Ganigar, pro-Assad Syrian military journalist.

🇸🇾⚡- Initial reports, HTS have opened a second front, this time southwest of Aleppo, Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham have captured Urm as Sughra, southwest of Aleppo, Syria.

This opens a second front against the already struggling Syrian Arab Army in western Aleppo.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian Arab forces continue retreating back towards Aleppo, while under fire from HTS.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Meanwhile as Assad's Aleppo front crumbles, Iran continues to promise retaliations:

"Iran will certainly fulfill the third sincere promise and timing is part of the process," - Speaker of Iran's Majlis.

🇸🇾⚡- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham calls on the Joint Forces (SNA-backed) to 'liberate' Talrifat from the Qasd militia (SDF-backed).

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: Initial reports that HTS have captured the large town of al-Hota, western Aleppo!

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Turkish artillery forces are now directly striking Syrian Arab forces.

🇸🇾⚡- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham have captured Andzara and the large town of al-Hota, western Aleppo, Syria.

HTS have also entered the towns of Kafr Bissin and Babis. Turkish outlets claim Kafr Bissin has fallen to HTS, but this has yet to be confirmed by ground sources.

The status of Basratun also remains unknown at the moment. Both sides claim control, so it's likely grey-zone.

HTS is now just 7.5km away from Aleppo - war has returned to the city.

🇹🇷🇸🇾⚡- Turkish artillery striking has significantly increased, striking as far as the city of Aleppo itself. These may be in response to the joint Russia-Syria airstrikes earlier against Taftanaz.