{"id":134677,"date":"2024-12-08T09:56:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T02:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134677"},"modified":"2024-12-08T09:56:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T02:56:48","slug":"syrian-rebels-appear-to-have-entered-damascus-as-assad-regimes-defenses-crumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134677","title":{"rendered":"Syrian rebels appear to have entered Damascus as Assad regime\u2019s defenses crumble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4esxwha004c2cp9c1p0ge37@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2024\/12\/06\/middleeast\/syria-rebel-forces-hayat-tahrir-al-sham-al-jolani-intl-latam\/index.html\">Syrian<\/a> rebels appear to have entered the capital Damascus after facing scant resistance from regime forces, as President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s decades-long grip on power seemed to wane by the minute.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4euur6w001b3b6mmjvfe0h3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe rebels are in Barzeh,\u201d a neighborhood inside Damascus city, one resident told CNN, adding that clashes were currently taking place.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4ev93rf001n3b6m3w7em37p@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            By early Sunday morning, a source familiar with the rebel\u2019s advance told CNN: \u201cMilitarily, Damascus has fallen.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4evb2u3001q3b6mstchsyxy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Hours before, Syria\u2019s main armed opposition group said it had \u201cfully liberated\u201d the major city of Homs, north of the capital. Syrians were seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/live-news\/syria-civil-war-12-07-2024-intl#cm4erm7h1001l3b6pu53t36ip\">tearing down <\/a>and setting fire to posters of Assad after rebels had entered the city, in scenes reminiscent of pro-democracy protests in the city during the Arab Spring more than a decade ago.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4eunpa6000f3b6m01ap8auf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Just a day ago, observers were saying Homs was of huge strategic importance to the rebels, as its capture effectively split the Assad regime in two, severing the government in Damascus from the coast. But by Sunday morning, it was not clear there was even a functioning regime left to speak of.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4eunpa6000g3b6mummfmpk0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The rebels\u2019 progress has been stunningly swift. After bursting out of their territory in the northwestern Idlib province, the main rebel group captured <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2024\/11\/30\/middleeast\/syrian-rebels-control-aleppo-city-intl\/index.html\">Aleppo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2024\/12\/05\/middleeast\/syria-rebels-hama-government-intl\/index.html\">Hama<\/a> in just over a week of fighting. After they were joined Friday by a <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2024\/12\/06\/middleeast\/syria-rebel-offensive-homs-flee-intl\/index.html\">fresh uprising<\/a> in the southern Daraa province, both groups set their sights on Damascus.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4eunpa6000h3b6mf2sikwey@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWe were able to liberate four Syrian cities within 24 hours: Daraa, Quneitra, Suwayda and Homs,\u201d said Lt. Col. Hassan Abdul Ghani, a spokesperson for the main rebel group. \u201cOur operations are continuing to liberate the entire Damascus countryside, and our eyes are on the capital, Damascus.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm4euscbb00163b6mk2gtywia@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"AP24342659796722 copy.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6503333333333333\" data-original-height=\"1951\" data-original-width=\"3000\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24342659796722-copy.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1951\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24342659796722-copy.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1951\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24342659796722-copy.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1951\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24342659796722-copy.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1951\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24342659796722-copy.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/ap24342659796722-copy.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"A portrait of Assad hangs from a building overlooking an empty street in Damascus on Saturday.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1951\" width=\"3000\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4eunpa6000i3b6m0qn0vh68@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Earlier Saturday, the southern rebels said they had reached \u201cthe gates of Damascus.\u201d Videos geolocated by CNN showed residents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/live-news\/syria-civil-war-12-07-2024-intl#cm4ec06q4000x356o4vtcgtij\">toppling<\/a> a huge statue of Assad\u2019s father, the former president Hafez al-Assad, in the city\u2019s Jaramana suburb. Over the course of the evening, rebels were active in several pockets of the suburbs, within a few miles of the presidential palace.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4eunpa6000j3b6mzo4qqlki@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            It had been expected that the regime would mount a firmer defense of Damascus, but the rebels said that senior Assad regime officials were preparing to defect to them in the capital.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4eunpa6000k3b6mksx36c70@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Although the official line from the Syrian president\u2019s office is that Assad has not fled, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN that Assad is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/live-news\/syria-civil-war-12-07-2024-intl#cm4ehedbd002g3b6nxdwf2ltc\">nowhere to be found<\/a> in Damascus.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4esxyrh00003b6mk23yxlpe@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            After regime forces quit Homs, residents began to flood the streets in celebration. Videos geolocated by CNN showed residents tearing apart posters of Assad and his father on top of the gates to the Officers\u2019 Club in the city center.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4euodxp000s3b6m0hs4jmpz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The scenes recall one of the most symbolic images from the Arab Spring in Syria, when pro-democracy protesters tore down Assad posters on top of the same gates in 2011.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4euodxp000t3b6m70owk5zb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Nearby, residents were also seen celebrating in Clock Tower square, one of the focal points of the original anti-government protests.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4euodxp000u3b6mkwyhuqet@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            To stamp out those protests, the regime army launched a brutal assault on the city\u2019s Khalidiya neighborhood in 2012, using tanks and mortars to attack civilian homes, causing some to collapse. Regime troops stormed the area, slaughtering families in their homes. Around 200 people are thought to have died in the massacre.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4euodxp000v3b6mrhm4dg28@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In a video live-streamed from Clock Tower square by a resident late Saturday, a resident threw a framed portrait of Assad on the ground, shattering its glass. Over the course of 10 minutes, Syrians filled the square, chanting in celebration at the growing apparent collapse of the Assad regime.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/07\/middleeast\/syria-rebels-homs-damascus-assad-intl\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Syrian rebels appear to have entered the capital Damascus after facing scant resistance from regime forces, as President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s decades-long grip on power seemed to wane by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=134677\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}