- The Syrian opposition controls the areas of Jabal Zein Al-Abidin and Qamhana, hours after controlling the city of Hama, amid low morale among the Syrian army and its auxiliary forces, who have begun to withdraw or flee: Field commander
- Opposition forces take control of Hama's notorious military security branch.
- Amar Farhoud, a military expert, considers the loss of Hama to the regime a great moral boost for the opposition to achieve further progress and liberation towards Homs, and then the capital of Damascus.
He referred to the old revenge between the people of Hama and the regime forces, referring to the Hama massacre in the early eighties of the last century and the killing of about 30 thousand people.
According to Farhoud, the armed opposition was able to defeat and break the strongest brigades of the Syrian army, including the Fourth Division, the Republican Guard, and the elite 25th Division.
Military experts describe the Syrian army's statement and its talk of redeployment as an expression synonymous with defeat.
- Syrian armed opposition: Hama military airport is liberated.
- Abu Muhammad al-Julani, HTS leader announces the entry of his forces and opposition groups into Aleppo, announcing that this conquest is a conquest of liberation and mercy, and a deliverance from the oppression of the Syrian regime
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- Hassan Abdul Ghany, field commander of the opposition forces says there is a state of great confusion in the city of Hama, with senior military and security leaders fleeing and their soldiers leaving to an unknown fate. At the same time, there is conflicting information, as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that the regime forces have regained control over the areas they entered with the opposition in Hama.
- Opposition factions shoot down two helicopters over Hama military airport, central Syria.
- Opposition forces are now securing the eastern neighborhoods of Hama city after entering it, and they are separated by a distance of 2.5 kilometers from the city center, according to the Al Araby TV. The Syrian media continues to deny any entry into Hama city by the opposition groups led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham.
Hama was a bastion of opposition to the government of President Bashar al-Assad early in the country’s civil war, which erupted in 2011.
It was also the scene of a massacre in the 1980s under the rule of al-Assad’s father, whose scars have yet to heal even four decades on.
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