Syria’s government appears to have fallen after opposition fighters said they entered Damascus following a stunning advance.
Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali said the government was ready to “extend its hand” to the opposition and hand over its functions to a transitional government.
“I am in my house and I have not left, and this is because of my belonging to this country,” Jalili said in a video statement. He said he would go to his office to continue work in the morning and called on Syrian citizens not to deface public property.
A Syrian opposition war monitor, Rami Abdurrahman, said Assad left the country on a flight from Damascus early
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