'To the displaced, a free Syria awaits you': Rebels, Syrian army declare end of Assad regime
By: MATHILDA HELLER (The Jerusalem Post)
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Rebels, Syrian army declare end of Assad regime
"To the displaced all over the world, a free Syria awaits you."
Assad poster burns in Syria (photo credit: SCREENSHOT/X)
The Syrian army command has notified officers that President Bashar al-Assad's rule has ended following a lightning rebel offensive, a Syrian officer who was informed of the move told Reuters.
At the same time, the head of Syria's main opposition group abroad Hadi al-Bahra Syrian said on Sunday that Damascus is now "free of Bashar al-Assad."
Assad flew out of Damascus for an unknown destination on Sunday, two senior army officers told Reuters, as rebels said they had entered the capital with no sign of army deployments.
Thousands in cars and on foot congregated at a main square in Damascus waving and chanting "Freedom," witnesses said.
People gather in the city center, celebrating the anti-regime armed groups, opposing the Bashar al-Assad regime taking control of the city center of Hama, Syria on December 5, 2024. (credit: Ammar Hatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Statement from rebels
On its telegram, the rebel group stated "After 50 years of oppression under the regime, and 13 years of crime, tyranny and displacement, and after a long struggle and fight and confronting all forms of occupation forces, we announce today on 12-8-2024 the end of this dark era and the beginning of a new era for Syria."
"To the displaced all over the world, free Syria awaits you."
It added that the new Syria will be a place where everyone "coexists in peace, justice prevails and rights are established, where every Syrian is honored and his dignity is preserved, we turn the page on the dark past and open a new horizon for the future."
Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Abdul Ghani of the rebel group announced that hundreds of Assad's regime members surrendered to our forces in Deir Ezzor.
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This is fantastic news. Now Russia and Iran can go home. I foresee a possibility that the continued war between Israel and Syria could after so many decades finally end, and hopefully diplomatic relations between those neighbouring countries commence. One REALLY good result is the termination of Syria being used as a corridor for weapons from Iran to Lebanon's Hezbollah.
I think my comment was way too optimistic. It appears to me now that Syria may well come a devout Islamist state, more like Afghanistan, and Israel has begun to fortify its borders, and has taken control of the buffer zone between Syria and Israel.