Syria Has Fallen: President Of Syria Flees As Rebel Forces Enter Damascus

The President of Syria has fled the capital city of Damascus after rebel forces stormed the capital city.

Fox News reported that Syrian President Bashar Assad has fled Syria after Syrian rebel forces stormed Damascus.

Russian intel reported that Assad left the country and had private conversations with the rebel groups to transfer power peacefully.

Here’s the aftermath:

"hey mate, what are you up to? Wanna ride the giant Assad sled later?"#Syria pic.twitter.com/fwQts6aPSd

— Thomas van Linge (@ThomasVLinge) December 8, 2024

HISTORIC SCENES UNFOLDING: Statues of Hafez al-Assad are being destroyed all across Syria. pic.twitter.com/Qf74Vz6sgT

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 8, 2024

The prisons in Syria are being emptied and the inmates are told that they can go anywhere they want. Guess where they’ll go? pic.twitter.com/njOFFdpeXm

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 8, 2024

Per Fox News:

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, who used chemical weapons multiple times on his population, has fled Syria after rebels stormed the capital city of Damascus, according to Reuters.

Assad, who was trained as an eye doctor in the United Kingdom before succeeding his father, and his British-born wife, Asma al-Assad, fled with their three children, according to Syrian television reports. It was not known where they were headed.

Syria has been embroiled in a bloody, 13-year civil war as Islamist rebels looked to overthrow the Assad dynasty. The apparent collapse of more than 50 years of Assad family rule over the Syrian Arabian Republic would a monumental turning point in Middle East power politics.

A coalition of largely radical Islamist groups dislodged Assad’s Iran-backed regime. The U.S.-designated terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Islamist former Al-Qaeda affiliate that is part of the rebel forces, played the decisive role in evicting Assad, who inherited his presidency in 2000 following the death of his father, Hafez Assad.

Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the Islamist leader of HTS, who has a $10 million bounty on his head from the U.S., seeks to present a toned-down version of the radical Islamism that has defined his years of fighting in Syria and in Iraq against American troops. Al-Golani was detained by the U.S. military in the first decade of this century.

Syrian experts have told Fox News Digital that HTS seeks to impose a totalitarian Islamist regime on the population. Phillip Smyth, an expert on Iranian regime proxy groups and Syria, who is with the Atlantic Council, told Fox News Digital, “HTS is a group that is an outgrowth of Al-Qaeda and has connections to Turkey. Their endgame is to create a Talibanesque society with a few tweaks.”

Here’s a great video to understand how this all came to be:

Here is Jeffrey Sachs on Morning Joe explaining how Obama deployed the Brennan CIA in a regime change op to begin the Syrian Civil War to take out Assad that armed jihadists and created ISIS pic.twitter.com/ClQoSPZVYx

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) December 8, 2024

Trump on Syria's rebels, 11+ years ago: pic.twitter.com/nmYHTKvtcl

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 8, 2024

Per AP:

Syrians poured into streets echoing with celebratory gunfire on Sunday after a stunning rebel advance reached the capital, putting an end to the Assad family’s 50 years of iron rule but raising questions about the future of the country and the wider region.

Joyful crowds gathered in central squares in Damascus, waving the Syrian revolutionary flag in scenes that recalled the early days of the Arab Spring uprising, before a brutal crackdown and the rise of an insurgency plunged the country into a nearly 14-year civil war.

Others gleefully ransacked the presidential palace and the Assad family residence after President Bashar Assad and other top officials vanished, their whereabouts unknown. Russia, a close ally, said Assad left the country after negotiations with rebel groups and had given instructions to transfer power peacefully.