The end of Assad’s rule follows a 14-yr civil battle sparked by a brutal crackdown on democracy protests
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09 December, 2024, 03:05 pm
Final modified: 09 December, 2024, 03:09 pm
Syrians flocked to the predominant square of the capital metropolis Damascus this day (9 December) to effect what many regard as an extended-awaited contemporary morning time after the autumn of president Bashar al-Assad, AFP journalists saw.
Assad fled to Russia the day prior to this (8 December) after a lightning offensive spearheaded by Islamist rebels ousted him from strength, opening a brand contemporary chapter in Syria’s historic past after five decades of rule by his clan.
AFP journalists at Umayyad Square saw warring parties deployed as overjoyed residents flocked to the scene following a nighttime curfew imposed by the rebels for the capital.
“Or no longer it is indescribable, we by no manner idea this nightmare would end, we’re reborn,” 49-yr-feeble Rim Ramadan, a civil servant on the finance ministry, instructed AFP on the square in the heart of the capital.
“We had been jumpy for 55 years of speaking, even at residence, we inclined to claim the walls had ears,” Ramadan acknowledged, as of us honked their car horns and rebels fired their weapons into the air.
“We if reality be told feel esteem we’re dwelling a dream,” she added.
In completely different locations in the capital, some neighbourhoods had been deserted, one other AFP journalist saw.
The end of Assad’s rule follows a 14-yr civil battle sparked by a brutal crackdown on democracy protests.
The battle killed extra than 500,000 of us and compelled half the population to hover their homes, many hundreds of thousands of them in one other nation.
Assad inherited from his father Hafez al-Assad a machine below which someone suspected of dissent will possible be jailed or killed.
Assad relied on his alliances with Russia and Iran to remain on the helm despite the mass protests and armed stand up.
Nevertheless on 27 November, a coalition of rebels led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched an offensive that tore thru the nation, wresting alter of metropolis after metropolis unless they reached Damascus on Sunday.
In a matter of days, the grip of the navy and security forces collapsed and rebels moved into the predominant cities of Aleppo, Hama, Daraa and Homs, forward of entering the capital, bringing about an end to decades of Baath occasion rule.
