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Assad’s Syrian government falls after jihadists take control of the capital
Palestinians survey the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on at the Muwassi camp for displaced people near Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, December 5, 2024

SYRIAN jihadists took control of the capital yesterday as President Bashar al-Assad was reported to have fled the country.

But activists labelled yesterday’s collapse of President Bashar Assad’s Syrian government a “victory for imperialism.”

The defeat of the Syrian government came after a lightning offensive by jihadist insurgent groups, mainly under Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which seized control of the capital, Damascus.

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