NEW YORK, December 7. /TASS/. Officials from Egypt and Jordan have urged Syrian President Bashar Assad to leave the country and form an interim council, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources.
"Assad remained in Syria on Friday. Last week, his children and his wife traveled to Russia," the newspaper writes. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Assad has urged Turkey to intervene to stop the rebels and sought weapons and intelligence help from countries including the UAE, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq, but has so far been refused."
Units of the Jabhat al-Nusra extremist group (outlawed in Russia) staged a large-scale attack on Syria’s northern governorates early on November 27. According to the Syrian army command, the terrorists attempted to seize a number of neighborhoods and military facilities, attacking the positions of government forces. Later, the Syrian army command said that government troops had to retreat from Aleppo to regroup and prepare for a counterattack.
On December 5, the Syrian army said that militants had infiltrated several neighborhoods in the city of Hama, the administrative center of the governorate of the same name in western Syria, and government forces were redeployed outside the city.