DAMASCUS, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Syria rebel fighters raced into Damascus unopposed on Sunday, overthrowing President Bashar al-Assad and ending nearly six decades of his family's iron-fisted rule after a lightning advance that reversed the course of a 13-year civil war.
In one of the most consequential turning points in the Middle East for generations, the fall of Assad's government wiped out a bastion from which Iran and Russia exercised influence across the Arab world.
Moscow gave him and his family asylum.
As the sun set in Damascus without Assad for the first time, the roads leading into the city were mostly empty, apart from motorcycles carrying armed men and rebel vehicles caked with brownish mud as camouflage.
Some men could be seen looting a shopping centre on the road between the capital and the Lebanese border, stuffing goods into plastic bags or into pick-up trucks. The myriad checkpoints lining the road to Damascus were empty.
Posters of Assad had been torn at his eyes. A burning Syrian military truck was parked diagonally on the road out of the city.
A thick column of black smoke billowed out from the Mazzeh neighbourhood, where Israeli strikes earlier had targeted Syrian state security branches, according to two security sources.
Throughout the evening, intermittent gunfire rang out throughout the city in apparent celebration.
Shops and restaurants closed early in line with a curfew imposed by the rebels. Just before it came into effect, people could be seen briskly walking home with stacks of bread.
Earlier, the rebels said they had entered the capital with no sign of army deployments. Thousands of people in cars and on foot congregated at a main square in Damascus waving and chanting "Freedom".
- Reuters
Syria: Second largest city in the country, Aleppo, 2.1 million population, fell to the rebel coalition in just 2 days of operation.
Syrian dictator Assad fled to Moscow at the beginning to beg Putin for help and is yet to return.
Sayangnya hingga kini di Malaysia X ada gerakan revolusioner yang didukung oleh rakay Malaysia yang ingin melakukan perubahan significant di Malaysa ...menghapuskan sistem monarchy, menghapuskan sistem racism, apartheid dan discriminatio sehingga boleh menjadikan tempat yang egaliter bagi semua kaum, agama dan asal-usul mereka .... Hehehehe
tiada siapa boleh mengalahkan pakatan US Israel
hanya Tuhan sdri boleh kalahkan
Hizbullah dah kalah perang lebanon
iran kalah juga semua s300nya dah dimusnahkan diserang Israel
Syria lembik bru bbrapa tahun aman tenteranya lari lintang pukang diserang
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pokokmeranti replied at 1-12-2024 07:41 PM
knp tak minta pertolongan hadi awang, kan dia ada mimpi nak damaikan dua kelompok ini
Syria bukan state dalam malaysia territory... Ini bukan partisan arguement... Seperti bangnon and mahathir PM and former PM....cakap banyak but tidak mahu settle own problem...
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Edited by Dwdrum at 8-12-2024 03:39 PM
Tumpang-Sibok replied at 8-12-2024 11:47 AM
Tak habis meroyan dgn provakasi murahan.
Menopause ko progessing 2x faster ke unhinged idiot oi?
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Next time jangan sembang kencang...masalah middle east... muslim world iproblem tetapi tidak boleh settle sendiri..unfortunately amerika lebih tahu geopolitic di middle east di banding kan ko yang born muslim ..the bitter truth
Post time 1-12-2024 10:10 AM
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