Daga labarin da aka samu a ranar Litinin, 8 ga Disamba, 2024, Shugaban Syria, Bashar Assad, ya bar ƙasarsa bayan da yan tawaye suka kama babban birnin Damascus. Rami Abdurrahman, shugaban Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, ya bayyana cewa Assad ya tashi jirgin sama daga Damascus zuwa wani wuri ba a bayyana ba.
Yan tawaye sun fara kai harin su ne a ranar 27 ga Nuwamba, 2024, kuma sun samu nasarar kama wasu manyan birane a Syria, ciki har da Damascus. Yan tawaye, wadanda suka hada da Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) da kungiyar Syrian National Army da ke samun goyon bayan Turkiya, sun kai harin da bai taba ganin irinsa ba a yankin.
Sojojin Syria sun sanar da ofisoshin su cewa mulkin Assad ya kare, a cewar Reuters. Ministan kasa na Syria, Mohammed Ghazi Jalali, ya ce gwamnatin tana shirin ‘yin barin hannu’ ga yan tawaye da kuma mika mulki ga gwamnatin sauyi.
Yan tawaye sun kuma sanar da cewa sun kama kurkuku na Saydnaya arewa da Damascus, inda suka ‘sake fursunansu’. Har ila yau, radion Sham FM da ke goyon bayan gwamnati ta bayyana cewa filin jirgin sama na Damascus an kawar da shi kuma an daina zirga-zirgar jirage.
Wakilan Amurka uku sun bayyana wa CBS News cewa Damascus zai koma bayan yan tawaye suka kewaye babban birnin. Iranian forces, wadanda suke goyon bayan Assad, sun ‘koma kasa’ daga Syria, a cewar wakilan Amurka.
