https://www.rt.com/news/608469-assad-defeat-terrorists-syria/
From RT so I'm sure it's got it's own spin. Apparently HTS blew up the Iranian embassy in Aleppo. This offensive is definitely very bad but we're always hearing this especially in the early hours of an offensive, (Kharkov, and Khersan fronts, the Prigo gambit, beginning of the summer offensive, Kursk, Isreal in south Lebanon). Surely meant to cause panic regardless of if it's true or not (this may actually be this bad, idk just sharing the official narrative from Pro-Russia/Syria) either way the SAA better get their shit together fast or it's over.
Alot of the first ISIS iteration were former Iraqi Baathist if I remember correctly