What has happened in the last few hours
These are the most important news in the Middle East war at 9:00 p.m. this Sunday, December 8:
The rebels overthrow the Assad regime after 13 years of war and the leader flees Damascus by plane. Rebel troops have taken the Syrian capital without encountering resistance. The General Staff has notified officers of the end of the regime and has asked the remaining soldiers to surrender. The country is “free of Assad,” the rebels have announced.
Assad and his family are in Moscow, according to Russian agencies. The Interfax news agency has quoted an anonymous source as saying: “President Assad has arrived in Moscow. “Russia has granted him (and his family) asylum on humanitarian grounds.”
The Syrian Prime Minister: “I have not left. “I am willing to cooperate.” Prime Minister Ghazi al Jalali has expressed his willingness to cooperate with the new leadership that Syrians now elect after the overthrow of Bashar al Assad’s regime.
The leader of the rebels affirms that the overthrow of Assad opens a “new history” in Syria. Abu Mohamed al Julani, leader of the armed group Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), which has led the offensive against Bashar al Assad’s regime, visited the historic Umayyad Mosque in Damascus this afternoon. “Assad has spread sectarianism and corruption,” Al Julani said in a brief speech inside the mosque.
Syrian opposition coalition says it is working to form a transitional governing body. The National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces has stated that it aims to create strategic partnerships within the region and the rest of the world “with the aim of building a new Syria.”
Thousands of people celebrate the overthrow of the regime. Thousands of people took to the streets this Sunday in the vast majority of Syrian provinces to celebrate the end of Assad, including in Tartus and Latakia, the only provincial capitals that remained under army control.
Biden: “The fall of Assad is an act of justice.” The American president has met with his national security team and appeared at the White House for a statement: “Rebel forces have forced Assad to resign from his position and flee the country. Finally, the regime has fallen.”
Europe calls for an end to violence and a peaceful transition after the fall of the dictatorship in Syria. Brussels celebrates the end of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and interprets it as a symptom of the weakness of Russia and Iran
Netanyahu declares the Separation Agreement with Syria “collapsed” and orders the entry of troops into the Golan Heights area. “The Syrian soldiers have abandoned their positions,” said the Prime Minister of Israel. Now, and “to protect Israel’s border above all else,” the Israeli prime minister has ordered a deployment of Israeli forces in this area for an indefinite period.
