🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- 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.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- Initial reports, a Russian special forces soldier died in combat while fighting Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

🇸🇾⚡- The violent clashes can be seen from central Aleppo, Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- Massive salvo of HTS rockets launched at Aleppo, Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- Pro-Assad Syrian sources say Ansar al-Tawhid and Uyghurs mercenaries have joined the fighting alongside Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

Footage above allegedly shows, according to the pro-Assad sources, Ansar al-Tawhid ambushing a Russian Special Forces convoy.

Ansar al-Tawhid is openly funded by the Turkish military.

🇸🇾⚡- The 50th Division of HTS is now mass mobilizing.

🇸🇾⚡- Both sides confirm fighting taking place at the southern outskirts of Anadan, northwest Aleppo, Syria.

This confirms Hayat Tahrir al-Sham have captured Kafr Bissin and Jakid al-Adas
.

🇸🇾⚡- The Syrian National Army raises its alertness. The SNA is currently not involved in the Aleppo operation, although pro-Assad media claim the Ahrar al-Tawhid brigade is involved.

🇹🇷🇮🇷🇸🇾⚡- "We will gradually finish clearing Turkey's southern borders of the threat of terrorist organizations with a security belt extending from the Mediterranean to the Iranian border," - Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey.

🇮🇶🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "We will not stop targeting Israel despite the ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah," - Kata'ib Hezbollah based in Iraq.

🇸🇾 - Reports of Abu Muhammad al-Jolani personally leading the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham operation against Aleppo are false and have repeatedly been denied by numerous HTS affiliated media.

Certain channels are posting a photo along with it too, a photo that is from several years ago.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured the entire southern half of Lisovka, Pokrovsk direction.

🇸🇾🇮🇷⚡- IRGC and pro-IRGC reinforcements have arrived in Anadan, northwest Aleppo, Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- Intense street-fights in the center of Babis, northwest Aleppo, Syria.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- Another wave of joint Russian and Syrian airstrikes against HTS positions in western Aleppo, Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- Heavy gunfire is heard northwest of Khan al-Asl.

Too early to determine whether HTS has advanced to the town's outskirts, but if so, the situation for the SAA has become very critical.