Syrian opposition fighters have taken over the presidential palace in Damascus after a speedy offensive that seized management of the capital and despatched crowds into the streets to have fun the tip of the al-Assad household’s 53-year rule.
State tv on Sunday aired a video assertion by a bunch of males saying President Bashar al-Assad had been overthrown and all prisoners had been let loose.
The person who learn the assertion mentioned the opposition group, often called the Operations Room to Conquer Damascus, known as on all opposition fighters and residents to protect the establishments of “the free Syrian state”.
The opposition mentioned al-Assad had left Damascus. His whereabouts stay unknown.
Syria’s battle erupted in 2011 as an rebellion towards al-Assad’s rule and shortly morphed right into a full-blown battle that dragged in overseas powers. A whole lot of hundreds of individuals have been killed whereas hundreds of thousands have been pressured from their houses in one of many world’s largest refugee crises.
