Taking the power of Bashar al-Assad and the international community by surprise, the Hayat Tahrir al-Cham group and several allied rebel groups launched on November 27 a dazzling offensive which allowed them in just a few days to take control of several metropolises, first Aleppo (in the north), then Hama and Homs in the center.
The provinces in the east and south, notably Deraa, cradle of the 2011 “revolution”, fell into the hands of the rebels when local fighters took control on the ground, thanks to a withdrawal of the forces of the diet.
This Sunday, the rebel groups announced in a speech on Syrian public television the fall of “tyrant” Bachar al-Assadensuring that he had freed all the prisoners “unfairly” detained, calling on citizens and fighters to preserve state property.
Nine people appeared on the public television screen. One of them read a press release attributed to the “operations cell for the liberation of Damascus”which announces “the liberation of the city of Damascus, the fall of the tyrant Bashar al-Assad, the release of all prisoners unjustly (detained) in the regime's prisons”.
President Assad fled in the face of the rebels' dazzling offensive in the country.
