It is being an exciting twenty-four hours for millions of people living under the Assad regime in Syria. When the news broke that Assad had been removed, there was a wave of joy and relief. That is what it looked like when rebels swept into major cities, including the capital, Damascus. We are about twenty miles from the Syrian border right now, and you can see there is celebration everywhere. It is one that has really given me something from this writer. The material could tell us about years back in Minnesota. There is literally that jubilant outlook right now that you can see people waving flags. The Syrian revolution has given me three stars. The kids are a standout, and I have a lot of fun watching what is happening here. We can even see these little girls here, a lot of whom I ran into. I live in Florida. Because I think they are very happy because it is fallen. Chief International Security Correspondent Nick Peyton Walsh covers more on the attack on Assad’s fall from power.
Decades of barbaric horrific regime ended in just a few days Thousands of Syrians celebrated in the streets of Damascus, as rebel forces advanced on the capital on Sunday morning, and it was declared liberated from President Bashar Assad. We announce to you from the Syrian news channel the victory of the great Syrian revolution after thirteen years of patience and sacrifice. To bet and topple the criminal Assad regime, which, faced with crumbling resistance and regime forces, the rebels launched a surprise lightning offensive, weakening Russia, its long-term ally. Announcing that he had fled the country and who gave refuge in Moscow. How was this happiness after civilians and rebels broke into the presidential palace and looted furniture with children, showing how the suffering caused pain every day, some even took the president to the kitchen and language starvation was once a weapon.
What would you like, a woman said during the filming that people are hungry, take whatever you want, traces of Assad were being destroyed across the country, the statue of a man who had children, Gaston A., eleven years ago toppled in the eastern city because of the basement, the tattooed image torn down from buildings in Damascus and above the gates of the city center of the house. Symbolically, where protesters tore down his image more than a decade ago. To see how to define the early days of the civil wars inspired by the seismic shifts of the Arab Spring Syrians stood up to 21 people demanding democracy, but were faced with live bullets and eventually chemical weapons of mass sex from jets.
Scores of people were killed and millions displaced as rebels swept into the capital on Sunday. Pictures emerged of prisoners being released from the notorious prison, with very few people coming out. Amnesty International labeled it a human slaughterhouse. The man leading the rebel attack is Abu Mohammad al Jelani. Here despair and prayer can be seen as he enters Damascus. Once connected to our Salonika he is suggesting he has matured from his extremist roots, however there are deep concerns about what kind of new Syria can emerge now and in one of the oldest mosques of this kind. He was welcomed in Damascus with applause and cheers as he hailed the total victory. This victory, my brother, is the victory of the entire Islamic nation.
This new victory for my brother is a new chapter in the history of the region. Undoubtedly, a new chapter book brings concern for the future and Shula with the joy of change. A kind of accounting of the horrors of the past decades that can become the hope of the days to come. News’ chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward is inside Syria right now, she spoke to us from the capital, Damascus, just a short while ago, here are some of the things you said Wolf, what I have to say is this moment is absolutely surreal.