Syrian rebels declared President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster after seizing control of Damascus on Sunday, forcing him to flee and ending his family’s decades of rule after more than 13 years of civil war in a seismic moment for the Middle East.
The rebels said they had entered the capital with no sign of army deployments.
Hezbollah, which provided crucial support to Assad for years, withdrew all of its forces from Syria on Saturday as rebel factions approached the capital Damascus, two Lebanese security sources told Reuters on Sunday.
One of the sources said that the supervising forces that Hezbollah had deployed to Syria overnight between Thursday and Friday had been sent to oversee the pullback.
Syria’s army command notified officers on Sunday that Assad’s rule had ended, a Syrian officer who was informed of the move told Reuters.
But the military later said it was continuing operations against “terrorist groups” in the key cities of Hama and Homs and in the Deraa countryside.
Damascus has fallen; the Shiite Crescent has been broken. This is wonderful news for the Globalists, the Neoconservatives, the Zionists, the Islamists, and al-Qaeda. Not so much for the Syrian Christians, the Alawites, the Druze, and the other ethno-religious groups who backed the Assads because of the life-or-death predicament into which we placed them by unleashing the forces of Salafist jihadi terrorism throughout their country.
Apparently the Syrian Arab Army is still intact, it simply stopped fighting for Assad. The Shiite militias seem to have totally checked out. Our “democratic forces” and Kurdish forces are still intact.
The Syrian civil war may or may not be over. If it is, the world now has to deal with the fact that jihadi terrorists rule Syria.