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The New York Times reports:
President Bashar al-Assad has resigned and left Syria, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Sunday, hours after rebels stormed the Syrian capital without encountering any significant resistance from government forces.
It did not offer details on Mr. al-Assad’s exact whereabouts, saying only that he had held talks with “several parties of the armed conflict.” There was no immediate comment from the Syrian presidency about the events, which marked a swift end to Mr. al-Assad’s decades of brutal rule over Syria.
The main rebel coalition, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, announced on its Telegram channel on Sunday that it had taken the capital, Damascus, and that Syrian forces were withdrawing. It later said that Mr. al-Assad had fallen and that Damascus was “free of the tyrant.”
The Washington Post reports:
“Multiple actors” in the Syrian civil war have “a terrible track record” on human rights, including Bashar al-Assad’s government, Russia, Iran and the Islamic State terrorist group, Daniel B. Shapiro, the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, said Sunday, according to the Associated Press. He urged all parties “to protect civilians” and said if the fall of Assad’s regime is confirmed, “no one should shed any tears.”
“A new page is being written in the history of Syria,” the country’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Sunday. The ministry and its diplomatic missions around the world will “remain committed to serving all fellow citizens and managing their affairs,” the statement said, asserting that the future of Syria will be one in which “justice and equality prevail.”
Syria’s prime minister said Sunday morning he would facilitate the nation’s transition of power, adding that he was last in contact with Syria’s toppled ruler, Bashar al-Assad, on Saturday evening.
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