BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government fell early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a sudden rebel offensive sprinted across government-held territory and entered the capital in 10 days.
Syrian state television aired a video statement by a group of men saying that President Bashar Assad has been overthrown and all detainees in jails have been set free.
The man who read the statement said the Operations Room to Conquer Damascus, an opposition group, called on all opposition fighters and citizens to preserve state institutions of “the free Syrian state.”
The statement emerged hours after the head of a Syrian opposition war monitor said Assad had left the country for an undisclosed location, fleeing ahead of insurgents who said they had entered Damascus following the remarkably swift advance across the country.
Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali said the government was ready to “extend its hand” to the opposition and turn its functions over to a transitional government.
“I am in my house and I have not left, and this is because of my belonging to this country,” Jalili said in a video statement. He said he would go to his office to continue work in the morning and called on Syrian citizens not to deface public property.
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2024 has been such a wild year, I wonder what 2025 will hold.
Well im sure this will lead to a long and prosperous era for Syria…
Assad crashing on putin’s couch
well this wasn’t in my 2024 bingo card
Brisk fo sho
Somewhere in the bowels of Hell a tiny tear sizzles on the blackened cheek of that poor lost soul Hafez Al-Assad.
I just hope Lebanon doesn’t get more fucked from all this
Did US have a hand in it this time?
Isn’t this exchanging one set of bastards for another? HTS are not the good guys.
Can someone tell me which one of the 9000 militant groups are in charge now?
So now Israel has an Islamist government right next door on their border.
Funny, how reddit cheers for Jihadis now being in control of a country… what could go wrong? I mean sure Assad was a scumbag, but come one?
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