Syrian rebels announced the liberation of the city of Damascus, the capital of Syria.
After taking control of the strategic city of Homs, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels continued their offensive towards Damascus and captured it. After this, hundreds of people took to the streets to support them. Syrian rebels have already made their first appeal to the Syrian people on state television and announced the overthrow of the regime of Bashar al-Assad. This was reported by Reuters.
Speaker Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Abdel Ghani also announced control over Damascus.
We declare the city of Damascus free from dictator Bashar al-Assad,” he wrote on social networks.
Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed al-Jalali, in his video message, also announced his readiness to transfer power to the opposition. And the General Staff of the Syrian Armed Forces announced the fall of the regime and called on the military to lay down their arms.
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad may have left Damascus. Two senior Syrian army officers told Reuters the president fled on a plane and flew out of the capital to an unknown destination on Sunday. It is preliminary known that Assad could have been on board the Russian Il-76T aircraft. According to the Flightradar service, this plane, for unknown reasons, disappeared from radar today near Al-Suwayri in Syria.
Recall that Syrian rebels launched an offensive against the government forces of Bashar al-Assad and the Russian troops supporting him. They said that in this way they were responding to the intensification of attacks by the Russian and Syrian air forces on the civilian population in the city of Idlib, which was contained by the rebels.
Yesterday, December 7, the rebels captured the city of Daraa, which is in the south of the country. This is the fourth city lost to Bashar al-Assad’s forces in a week. The suburb also came under rebel control on Saturday. Damascus.
Earlier, the media reported that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his family left for the United Arab Emirates and are already in Abu Dhabi.
Source: Reuters
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