A Syrian opposition chief in exile appeared intent on Monday on capitalizing on rebels’ latest startling beneficial properties within the nation, demanding on Monday that President Bashar al-Assad decide to a political transition.
The opposition chief, Hadi al-Bahra, spoke from Turkey as rebels continued their advance via Aleppo, as soon as Syria’s largest metropolis, and the encompassing areas.
In just some days, the patchwork of forces has seized management of a broad stretch of land within the west and northwest of the nation, based on the rebels and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based warfare monitor.
While Mr. Al-Bahra doesn’t communicate for the rebels, their seize of Aleppo has seemingly reinvigorated his group’s longstanding calls for for a democratic transition.
Mr. Al-Bahra heads a gaggle of political and army organizations generally known as the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces that oppose Mr. Al-Assad. The group claims to signify a majority of opposition events, but it surely has grow to be more and more irrelevant because the Syrian civil warfare has dragged into its second decade.
He advised a information convention broadcast from his base in Istanbul that the insurgent offensive was supported by a inhabitants weary of crimes dedicated by Mr. al-Assad alongside along with his Iranian and Russian backers.
The combating will proceed, he stated, till the Syrian chief acquiesces — a prospect that Mr. Al-Bahra stated the opposition was ready for.
Negotiations might begin “tomorrow,” he added.
Mr. Al-Bahra demanded the implementation of the stalled 2015 United Nations Security Council decision 2254, which lays out a street map for Syria’s political transition, beginning with a cease-fire. It is, he stated, “the one sustainable political answer in Syria.”
“We have the best to make use of no matter means to make sure its implementation,” he stated.
Jacob Roubai contributed reporting.
