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#Sudan 🇸🇩 MAP UPDATE: the situation in Sudan as of February 2025. This past month was a very significant one on the battlefield with the #SAF make major advances on several fronts, including the capital Khartoum. The cities of Wad Madani and Umm Ruwaba were liberated of #RSF rule.

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#Myanmar 🇲🇲 MAP UPDATE: the situation in Myanmar as of February 2025. Exactly four years after the Burmese junta seized power through a coup it finds itself increasingly isolated. Around 60% of the country is now in the hands of resistance groups with major battles ongoing.

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#Myanmar 🇲🇲 MAP UPDATE: the situation in Myanmar as of February 2025. Exactly four years after the Burmese junta seized power through a coup it finds itself increasingly isolated. Around 60% of the country is now in the hands of resistance groups with major battles ongoing.

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#Sudan 🇸🇩 MAP UPDATE: the situation in Sudan as of February 2025. This past month was a very significant one on the battlefield with the #SAF make major advances on several fronts, including the capital Khartoum. The cities of Wad Madani and Umm Ruwaba were liberated of #RSF rule.

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#Serbia 🇷🇸: mass protests also took place in Novi Sad, in the northern Vojvodina region, the site of the railway station tragedy.

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Mass protests in the streets of #Belgrade today as a general strike is taking place all over #Serbia 🇷🇸. For weeks now the country has been gripped by anti #Vucic protests, following the deathly canopy collapse in Novi Sad which killed 15 people.

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#Sudan 🇸🇩: Darfuri forces managed to repell a major #RSF assault on the besieged city of #ElFasher today, pushing the militants back as they tried to advance from several directions. Note how the city of El-Fasher is being defended by men and women alike.

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#Colombia 🇨🇴: Following the ongoing fighting in the Catatumbo region the Attorney General of the country has re-activated the arrest warrants for the entire leadership of the #ELN guerrilla group. Arrest warrants that were suspended during the peace negoations.

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#Myanmar 🇲🇲: junta warplanes repeatedly bombarded the TNLA-held town of Nawnghkio in northern #Shan state. According to resistance sources at least nine civilians were killed in the strikes.

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After the liberation and the celebrations comes the cleaning up. #Syria

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#Myanmar 🇲🇲: the Arakan Army has seized full control of the town of Taungup in southern #Rakhine state. The last remaining junta base in the town fell to the resistance on Saturday. The resistance now fully controls 12 out of Rakhine's 17 townships.

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Bashar al-Assad’s regime will not survive long if Syrian rebels keep on My latest for the Telegraph about #Assad's crushing defeats in #Syria www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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#Syria: reports that the #Assad regime has been kicked out of #Raqqa province. #SDF troops have started moving in the area, reportedly taking the towns of Refasa and Maadan, which were the last remaining footholds of the regime in Raqqa.

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#Syria: victory celebrations in the city of #Hama are continuing well into the night.

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#Syria: rebel forces have entered the Christian town of Mhardeh in northern #Hama province after regime forces have left the area.

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#Syria: rebels have seized control of the Baath Party headquarters in the city of #Hama.

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#Syria: rebel forces are inside the #Hama governor's palace in the city center.

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#Syria MAP UPDATE: The situation in Syria as of 05/12/2024. Following days of fighting rebel forces captured the city of #Hama and large parts of the countryside, dealing a crushing blow to the #Assad regime. Download larger file: mediafire.com/file/ms4w38s9e…

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#Syria: the joy on the faces of hundreds of political prisoners as they're released from the #Hama Central Prison, most having been locked up for years. The reporter holds back tears as he sees all those people regaining their freedom.

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A picture that might be just as painful to #Assad as those of the fall of #Hama: Hundreds of defected regime soldiers, policemen and officials are signing up to work for the rebels' Internal Ministry in the city of #Aleppp. #Syria.

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Just checking on YouTube how to fly this captured regime helicopter. #Syria

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#Syria: the #Hama Central Prison has been liberated. Political prisoners are breathing the fresh air again, for some for the first time this decade.

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There are pictures Bashar al-Assad shares with the world, and there are pictures he likes to keep for himself.

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#Syria BREAKING: the city of #Hama is under FULL rebel control. Regime forces have pulled out to the west and the south as they were unable to stop the rebel advance. Residents take to the streets to celebrate.

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#Syria: rebel forces have seized control of the strategic town of al-Saan. This means the road between #Hama and the eastern junction of Ithriyah is now cut. Regime counter-offensive on Aleppo is becoming impossible at this point.

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#Myanmar 🇲🇲: as the #KIA advances on #Bhamo (#Kachin state) residence take to the Irrawaddy River to escape the besieged city and seek refuge in the resistance-held countryside.

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#Myanmar 🇲🇲: #KIA and #PDF resistance forces have launched a new assault in southern #Kachin state, aiming to capture the town of Mansi and the nearby city of #Bhamo. At least two junta positions are reported to have been captured.

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#Syria: as the #HTS continues to build on a post-#Assad state, it's political body, the Salvation Government, has come out with a statement addressing the Alawite people. It states the Alawite are part of the Syrian people and calls on them to abandone the regime.

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#Syria: regime forces have abandoned the village of Suruj in the eastern countryside of #Hama. Rebels moved in a seized control of the main checkpoint going into town.

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#Syria: further up the road from Suruj rebel forces also secured the historic Qasr Ibn Warden citadel, as they spread their control over eastern #Hama province.

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#Syria: as anti-regime activists continue to increase across the country a couple of Druze activists raised the #FreeSyria flag over the historic Salkhad citadel in southern #Suwayda province.

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#Syria: rebel forces report the capture of the village of Kafraa and its nearby mountain. The rebellion is set to enter the city of #Hama soon.

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#Syria: more footage of rebel advances across the front in northern #Hama today. Opposition sources are now speculating the rebellion could return to the city of Hama by nightfall.

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#Syria: rebel forces are now inside the village of Maar Shohur after capturing it from the regime. This means they are advancing on the city of #Hama from the north and the east.

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#SouthKorea 🇰🇷: Korean military forces are taking up positions in the National Assembly building in #Seoul, following the declaration of martial law by president Yoon. Scenes like this would be unthinkable in a healthy democracy like ROK, yet this is what we are watching.

submitted 82 days ago • 8 comments

#Syria: rebel forces have captured the town of Taybat al-Imam. This means the opposition is once again standing at the gates to #Hama city. The regime seems incapable to halt the offensive.

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#Syria: American warplanes providing air cover to #SDF forces in #DeirEzZor, as they advance on the #Assad regime on the ground.

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#Syria: #SDF forces join the war against the #Assad regime. This morning Arab SDF units launched attack against the regime in #DeirEzZor, hoping to expell the regime from seven villages located on the east bank of the Euphrates. American warplanes bomb the regime in the area

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#Syria: regime forces are now even abandoning Buk missile systems by the side of the road. If there are still missiles in this system, and rebels figure out how to operate it, the regime's ability to wage war will be in serious trouble. No warplanes = no Assad.

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If you thought #Syria was the only major upheaval of these days then you have forgotten about #Myanmar very quickly. Resistance sources posted this cryptic video last night, containing only one phrase: 'Something is coming'

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#Syria: rebel forces have captured the town of Karnaz in western #Hama province. De-Baathification starts straight away.

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#Syria: rebel forces have captured the village of al-Kirkat, located on the eastern edge of the Ghab valley in NW #Hama province.

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#Syria: the University Hospital in #Idlib is one of the health facilities that has been attacked by regime warplanes.

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A massacre in unfolding in #Syria. Regime and Russian warplanes bombard one hospital after the other in #Idlib province, trying to cripple the healthcare system which millions of people depend on.

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