Rebel fighters in a military plane belonging to forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad's government at Hama military airport, Syria, December 7, 2024.

Portraits of Bashar al-Assad were torn down one after another, and statues erected in honor of his father, Hafez al-Assad, were toppled in the streets of the major suburbs and major southern and southeastern suburbs of Damascus, the capital. , on Saturday, December 7, where people took to the streets after the departure of the army and security forces. Their population awaits the arrival of the advancing forces of the armed uprising, the effectively liberated neighborhoods include former strongholds of the uprising against the regime and old front lines from the years 2012-2016, such as Daraya, seven kilometers from the presidential palace, and Al -Moadamia, on the edge of one of the country’s most important air bases. An attack on this strategic position would signal the arrival of armed opposition elements on the threshold of the city’s administrative borders.


Previously, local residents filmed images of soldiers retreating, sometimes on foot, towards the city center. Syria’s Interior Minister toured the streets of the city center around 6 p.m. (local time) and assured the public that “a security wall had been built around the capital and no one would manage to tear it down.” In the capital – which residents, terrified by the arrival of the rebels, have evacuated en masse – according to a source contacted Le Mondethe streets are depopulated and shops closed after being emptied by residents stocking up in anticipation of the fighting.


After taking control of Daraa province in the south of the country, factions of the uprising, often former rebels who had laid down their arms and reconciled with the regime under the auspices of Russia, advanced without resistance towards the capital. In much smaller numbers, elements loyal to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the main group in the offensive against the regime in the north, have also moved to the city’s outskirts.


Capturing Homs


With the Syrian army having evacuated all positions in their path, the factions have now taken over all government positions in the three southern provinces: Daraa, where they control the border with Jordan; Kuneitra, which borders the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights; and Suweida, a predominantly Druze province, where local rebels are deployed in large numbers.


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