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Rebels in Syria have announced that they have also captured Damascus and with this the rule of President Bashar al-Assad has ended. Many people were seen celebrating on the streets of Damascus. The rebels said that Assad had fled and that Damascus was now free. In a statement released on TV, the rebels said that all the prisoners in jails should be released. The streets of Damascus echoed with slogans of Allah-hu-Akbar and the sound of gunfire. The rebels were seen celebrating by firing in the air.
Some rebels climbed the statue of Assad’s father and vandalized it. He said, we were waiting for this day for a long time. Today a new era is beginning in Syria. Let us tell you that the rebel group Islamist Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) has the support of Türkiye. It had first captured Aleppo two days earlier. After this, conquering the cities one by one, they reached Damascus. The Baath regime has ended after 50 years of tyranny, the rebel group said on Telegram. During these years many people had to leave their homes. We declare that the dark days are over and a new era is beginning in Syria.
Prime Minister Mohammed al-Jalali said the Syrian people are ready to cooperate with whatever government they choose. Apart from this, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Rami Abdel Rahman said, they have left Syria via Damascus International Airport. However, even AFP has not confirmed this report. According to the report, HTS said that their fighters are releasing prisoners from jails. Earlier the rebels had captured Homs. The distance from Homs to Damascus was only 140 kilometers.
The head of the Syrian opposition war monitor claimed that Assad had fled the country to an unknown location. Meanwhile, Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi Jalali issued a video statement saying that he is ready to hand over the reins of governance to the opposition peacefully. “I am at my residence and have not gone anywhere and this is because I love my country,” Jalali said, adding that he would go to his office for work in the morning. He urged Syrian citizens not to damage public property.
This is the first time since 2018 that rebels have reached inside Damascus. Syrian troops recaptured the outskirts of the capital in 2018 after years of siege. Pro-government Sham FM radio said Damascus airport had been evacuated and all flights had been halted. The rebels also announced that they had entered the Saidnaya military prison, north of the capital, and had “liberated” prisoners there.
The night before, government forces retreated from Syria’s third-largest city, Homs, after which opposition forces captured it. The city is located between the capital, Damascus, and the Syrian coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus. These provinces are the stronghold of the Syrian leader and also have a Russian naval base. Meanwhile, the government denied rumors of Assad leaving the country. Pro-government Sham FM said without giving details that government forces had taken up positions outside Syria’s third-largest city.
Abdurahman said Syrian troops and personnel from various security agencies had withdrawn from the city and rebels had entered parts of the city. Abu Mohammed al-Golani, head of the Syrian rebel group ‘Jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’ group (HTS), said in an exclusive interview to ‘CNN’ from Syria on Thursday that the aim of the attack was to oust Assad’s government from power. Have to do.
UN special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen has called for urgent talks in Geneva to ensure an “orderly political transition” in Syria. Meanwhile, America’s newly elected President Donald Trump said on Saturday that America should avoid military action in Syria. “This is not our fight,” he said in a post on social media. “The United States will not intervene militarily in the Syrian civil war,” US National Security Adviser Jack Sullivan said while addressing a gathering in California. ‘
