Zagros Çetinkaya – Denmark | Regime forces controlled-areas in Syria have increased from 19 to 60 percent, one year after Russia, Iran and Turkey begun implementing a “de-escalation” agreement in the war-torn country, as part of the Astana operation.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday that before the Astana 4 peace talks, Syrian regime forces controlled an area of about 36,000 km² that constitutes 19.3 percent of the Syrian land area.
The Observatory said that by that time, regime forces were the third most powerful force in Syria.
“ISIS was the most powerful force with more than 72,300 km² of controlled areas inside the country, or an equivalent of 39.1 percent of the Syrian land area, while the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) was ranked second and controlled about 22.1 percent of the Syrian land area or 41,000 km² of land,” the Observatory reported on its website.
