Rebels get in Damascus, case Assad has actually taken off– DW– 12/08/2024

Syria’s rebel intrigues required to Telegram to reveal a “new era” for Syria on Sunday amidst records that President Assad has actually left the nation.

“The tyrant Bashar Assad has fled” and “we declare the city of Damascus free,” the rebels stated.

“After 50 years of oppression under Baath rule, and 13 years of crimes and tyranny and (forced) displacement… we announce today the end of this dark period and the start of a new era for Syria,” they included.

The rebels additionally advised people abroad to go back to a “free Syria.”

Syrian rebel head Abu Mohammed al-Golani stated on Sunday that public organizations would certainly continue to be under the guidance of Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali– whom he described as “former prime minister”– till a main handover.

The rebel leader, that additionally makes use of the nom de guerre Ahmed al-Sharaa, revealed that it was banned to go near public organizations.

Meanwhile, Jalali stated he continued to be in his home and prepared to sustain connection of administration.

Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali on Sunday stated that he awaited any kind of handover procedure and prepared to “cooperate” with any kind of management picked by the individuals of Syria as rebel pressures went into resources Damascus in a lightning offensive.

“This country can be a normal country that builds good relations with its neighbors and the world… but this issue is up to any leadership chosen by the Syrian people,” Jalali stated in an address on Facebook.

“We are ready to cooperate with it (that leadership) and offer all possible facilities.”

The head of state additionally asked for the conservation of state organizations that “are for everyone.”

Jalali was a previous interactions priest that was designated as head of state by President Bashar Assad in September.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated on Sunday that President Bashar Assad has actually leftSyria

News firm AFP estimated the battle display’s principal Rami Abdel Rahman as claiming: “Assad left Syria via Damascus international airport before the army security forces left” the center.

Earlier, 2 unrevealed elderly military policemans informed information firm Reuters that Assad had actually boarded an airplane and left for an unidentified location.

There has actually been no declaration from the Syrian federal government concerning Assad’s location.

Damascus International Airport has actually been left and all trips have actually been stopped, according to the pro-government radio terminal Sham FM.

Meanwhile, resources from the Britain- based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights informed AFP that Syrian armed forces and protection pressures have actually taken out from the airport terminal.

Syria’s Islamist- led rebels declared on Sunday that they had actually gotten into the Saydnaya penal institution exterior Damascus and opened its entrances for detainees.

The rebels revealed an “end of the era of tyranny in the prison of Sednaya” on Telegram.

The Britain- based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that “the doors of the infamous ‘Saydnaya’ prison, known as the ‘human slaughterhouse’, have been opened for thousands of detainees who were imprisoned by the security apparatus throughout the regime’s rule”.

Syrian rebel teams stated they went into the resources, Damascus, in the very early hours of Sunday early morning.

“Our forces started entering Damascus,” the Islamist team Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) stated on Telegram.

The head of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel-Rahman, validated the records to Germany’s DPA information firm.

It comes hours after rebels declared to have actually caught Syria’s third-largest city, Homs, to the north.

Residents in Damascus stated they might listen to shooting, information firms AFP and Reuters reported.

Sources from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights additionally informed AFP that federal government pressures had actually taken out from Damascus International Airport on the borders of the city.

Forces of the Islamist team Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) went into the residential areas of Syria’s 3rd city of Homs over night while President Bashar Assad’s pressures have actually greatly drawn back from the city.

“The process of advancing and combining the city’s neighborhoods is currently under way,” Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of HTS, stated in a video clip on Telegram.

“We are currently living the final moments of liberating Homs,” al-Sharaa included.

Pro- federal government radio terminal Sham FM stated federal government pressures had actually used up placements outside the city, without supplying anymore information.

News firm Reuters pointed out a Syrian military policeman, that did not call it, as claiming that systems of Lebanese team Hezbollah’s elite Radwan pressures had actually left the city ofHoms

Meanwhile, HTS leader Hassan Abdul-Ghani declared his pressures had actually released greater than 3,500 detainees in the city onSaturday

“Our forces… have succeeded in freeing more than 3,500 prisoners from the prison… in Homs,” he stated.

He stated his pressures had actually currently started the “final stage” of their development by transferring to border Damascus.

dvv/zc (Reuters, AFP, AP, dpa)