The Assad family’s decadeslong reign in Syria came to an abrupt end Sunday when rebel forces captured Damascus after a stunning lightning-strike rout across…
“We declare the city of Damascus free from the tyrant Bashar al-Assad,” a rebel leader said in a post on WhatsApp. “To the displaced people around the world, Free Syria awaits you.”The Assad family’s decadeslong reign in Syria came to an abrupt end Sunday when rebel forces captured Damascus after a stunning lightning-strike rout across the country., claimed victory for the rebel forces that had stormed across Syria in a matter of days and entered Damascus overnight.
Videos circulating on social media and verified by NBC News appeared to show Syrians celebrating across Damascus overnight and into the day, as crowds honked horns, waved flags and fired their guns into the air, while others posed for selfies standing on top of a tank. “We announce to the Syrian people the news of the liberation of our captives and the breaking of their chains, proclaiming the end of the era of oppression in Sednaya Prison.”
The rapid advance by HTS comes as the Middle East is awash in fresh fighting, with U.S.-backed Israel trying to root out Hamas in Gaza and that seized government positions in eastern Syria near the cities of Raqqa and Deir Ez-Zor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday.It’s one of several competing forces in Syria fighting to bring down the Assad regime that, since the beginning of the country’s civil war almost 14 years ago, has killed hundreds of thousands of Syrians.
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