(8 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Damascus, Syria – 08 December 2024
1. Various of people walking and taking photos inside the presidential palace
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Syrian man inside the palace (No name given):
"Victory to Syria. Syria remains and Assad is in hell, to the dust-bin of history. Syria will open a new chapter, modern Syria thanks to the guys and with their energy. The next victory is the economic victory, God willing. Now it is the military victory and later the economic one with the energy of the young fighters who lost years of their lives waiting for this moment. They were training and preparing the forces and came to liberate Damascus and all of Syria from this decadent tyrant."
3. Man sitting with family sitting in Presidential palace
4. Family standing up and taking photos
5. Various of people taking photos inside palace
6. Wide of hallway inside the Presidential palace
7. People walking in hallway
8. Various of people in a room carrying things
9. Various of person posing for photo
UPSOUND (Arabic) "Allahu Akbar and victory to almighty God."
10. Top view of couches in palace
11. Various exteriors of palace
STORYLINE:
Syrians walked around the halls of the presidential palace Sunday after the fall of the government earlier in the day, bringing an end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a sudden rebel offensive sprinted across government-held territory and entered the capital in 10 days.
Crowds gathered in Syria’s Damascus on Sunday to celebrate the fall of Bashar Assad’s government with chants, prayers and the occasional gunfire after opposition fighters entered the capital following a stunning advance.
Rami Abdurrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Syrian opposition war monitor, said Assad took a flight from Damascus and left early Sunday.
There was no immediate official statement from the Syrian government and Assad’s whereabouts remain unknown.
It was the first time opposition forces had reached Damascus since 2018 when Syrian troops recaptured areas on the outskirts of the capital following a years-long siege.
The night before, opposition forces had taken the central city of Homs, Syria’s third largest, as government forces abandoned it.
The rapidly developing events have shaken the region.
Lebanon said it was closing all its land border crossings with Syria except for one that links Beirut with Damascus.
Jordan also closed a border crossing with Syria.
AP video shot by Hussein Malla
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