Syrian rebels ENTER Damascus as butcher Assad holes up in presidential palace
INCREDIBLE footage shows Syria's prime minister frogmarched from his home by armed rebels as he hands over power.The PM Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali can be seen flanked by fighters with AK-47s as he leaves his home and gets into a car.
One man sat at a big wooden desk that was covered in military maps while others climbed over a marble fountain. "The city of Damascus has been liberated, the tyrant Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown, and all unjustly detained prisoners have been released from the regime's prisons."Thousands have taken to the streets of Damascus in celebration, firing guns into the air, lighting flares, and waving the rebel flag.Syria's army command has notified officers Assad's rule is over - while rebels said Damascus is now "free of Assad", Reuters reported.
Some protesters take up guns and military units defect as the uprising becomes an armed revolt that will gain support from Western and Arab countries and Turkey.- A bombing in Damascus is the first by al Qaeda's new Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front, which gains in power and starts crushing groups with a nationalist ideology.
Washington has declared chemical weapons use a red line, but a gas attack on rebel-held eastern Ghouta near Damascus kills scores of civilians without triggering a U.S. military response.- Islamic State group suddenly seizes Raqqa in the northeast and swathes more territory in Syria and Iraq. Russia joins the war on Assad's side with air strikes that turn the conflict against the rebels for years to come.- Alarmed by Kurdish advances on the border, Turkey launches an incursion with allied rebels, making a new zone of Turkish control.
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