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Bashar al-Assad flees Damascus as rebels seize power

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Bashar al-Assad flees Damascus as rebels seize power

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has left office and departed the country after giving orders for a peaceful handover of power, the Russian Foreign Ministry has confirmed.

DAILY MAIL reports that in a statement, the ministry did not say where al-Assad was now and said Russia has not taken part in talks around his departure.

It said Russia’s military based in Syria had been put on a state of high alert, but there was no serious threat to them at present.

Moscow is understood to be in touch with all Syrian opposition groups and urged all sides to refrain from violence.

It comes as Syrians have stormed al-Assad’s presidential palace in Damascus as rebels declare that the country is ‘free’ from the ‘tyrant’.

The opposition fighters reached the suburbs of the capital yesterday for the first time since the region was recaptured by government troops in 2018.

Syrian state television showed the rebels milling around inside the despot’s palace after he fled this morning on a plane to an unknown destination.

Military and intelligence officials were being quizzed by the rebel soldiers about al-Assad’s whereabouts as they tried to pinpoint his movements.

Following the capture of Damascus, the HTS (Hayyet Tahrir al-Sham) said on Telegram that it was the end of a dark era and the beginning of a new one.

The rebels said that people displaced or imprisoned under the half-century reign of al-Assad can now come home.

HTS said it will be a ‘new Syria’ where ‘everyone lives in peace and justice prevails’.

A statue of the late father of al-Assad in a main square in the Jermana suburb, ten kilometres from the capital, has also been toppled.

As daylight broke over Damascus, crowds gathered to pray in the city’s mosques and to celebrate in the squares, chanting ‘God is great.’ People also chanted anti-Assad slogans and honked car horns.

In the streets, teen boys picked up weapons that had apparently been discarded by security forces and fired them in the air.

Soldiers and police officers left their posts and fled, and looters broke into the Defense Ministry. Videos from Damascus showed families wandering into the presidential palace, with some emerging carrying stacks of plates and other household items.

Source: dailymail.co.uk

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