Syrian rebels were seen inside the Presidential Palace in Damascus this Tuesday (10), days after taking the capital and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia.
Reuters footage showed the insurgents sitting at the entrance to the Palace, also known as Qasr al-Shaab, while others walked through the corridors.
See the rebels in the palace:
In the video, you can see a photograph of the Assad family on a table and some damaged images of Bashar al-Assad and his wife, Asma, on the floor.
Assad’s fall has left the Syrian people, countries in the region and world powers on alert about what comes next, as the rebel alliance takes the first steps of government transition.
Understand the conflict in Syria
The Assad family regime was overthrown in Syria on December 8, after 50 years in power, when rebel groups took over the capital Damascus.
President Bashar al-Assad has fled the country and is in Moscow after gaining asylum, according to a source in Russia.
Syria’s civil war began during the Arab Spring in 2011, when the regime of Bashar al-Assad suppressed a pro-democracy uprising.
The country was plunged into full-scale conflict when a rebel force was formed, known as the Free Syrian Army, to fight government troops.
Furthermore, the Islamic State, a terrorist group, also managed to gain a foothold in the country and came to control 70% of Syrian territory.
Fighting escalated as other regional actors and world powers — from Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United States to Russia — joined in, escalating the country’s war into what some observers described as a “proxy war.”
Russia has allied with Bashar al-Assad’s government to combat the Islamic State and rebels, while the United States has led an international coalition to repel the terrorist group.
After a ceasefire agreement in 2020, the conflict remained largely “dormant”, with minor clashes between the rebels and the Assad regime.
More than 300,000 civilians have been killed in more than a decade of war, according to the UN, and millions of people have been displaced across the region.
Find out who the Syrian rebel leader is and the group that overthrew Bashar al-Assad
This content was originally published in Video: Syrian rebels take over the Presidential Palace, days after Assad’s fall on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil

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