Syrian Government Falls, Ending 50-Year Rule Of Assad Family

Beirut/Internet/Hyderabad, Dec 9 (Maxim News): In a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family, the Syrian government appeared to have fallen early on Sunday after a shock rebel offensive. 

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The head of a Syrian opposition war monitor said President Bashar Assad had left the country for an undisclosed location, fleeing ahead of insurgents who said they had entered Damascus after a 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 hand over its functions 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 call on Syrian citizens not to deface public property. He did not address reports that Assad had left the country. 

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Rami Abdurrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Assad took a flight on Sunday from Damascus.  State television in Iran, Assazd’s main backer in the years of war in Syria, reported that Assad had left the capital.  It cited Qatar’s Al Jazeera news network for the information and did not elaborate.  There was no immediate statement from the Syrian government.  

In Damascus, it is reported seeing groups of armed residents along the road on the outskirts of the capital hear the sounds of gunshots.  The city’s main police headquarters appeared to be abandoned, its door left ajar with no officers outside.  Another AP journalist shot footage of an abandoned army checkpoint where uniforms were discarded on the ground under a poster of Assad’s face. 

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Residents of the capital reported hearing gunfire and explosions.  Footage broadcast on opposition-linked media showed a tank in one of the capital’s central squares while a small group of people gathered in celebration.  Calls of ‘god is great’ rang out from mosques. 

It was the first time opposition forces had reached Damascus since 2018 when Syrian troops recaptured areas on the outskirts of the capital following a years-long siege.   The pro-government Sham FM radio reported that the Damascus airport had been evacuated and all flights halted.  The insurgents also announced they had entered the notorious Saydnaya military prison north of the capital and”liberated” their prisoners there. (Maxim News) 

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