Bashar Al Assad Toppled: How the Syrian Government Collapsed in Days

Bashar Al Assad Toppled: After a razzmatazz attack from rebel fighters, the government of Bashar Al Assad in Syria seems to have emerged toppled as time progressed and the fighters claimed to have invaded the capital city-Damascus.

"President Bashar Assad had left the country," reported a Syrian opposition war monitor.

Lightning-fast advance. Government fell within days of rebels first breaking Army lines in Aleppo.

The night before entering Damascus, rebel forces had completed the occupation of Homs, Syria's third-largest city, as the government forces abandoned it.

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Lightning offensive.

So quickly came the rebel offensive that it seemed to catch everyone by surprise. In a matter of a day or so, the four cities out of the Assad government's control fell: Daraa, Quneitra, Suwayda, and Homs.

It was the Turkish-backed Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS) that first broke the defenses of aleppo last week. This has led to significant breakthroughs after sorts of stalemates that engulfed the war-torn country for years. It was shocking, but nobody still expected this to really open the floodgate and accomplish what the opposition in Syria has been trying to do since this Civil War started in 2011: overthrow the Assad regime. This is what happened, however, the fall of Aleppo.

Thus city after city fell to the rebels, on their way to Damascus.

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The rebel forces by early Sunday had also taken Sednaya prison in the outskirts of Damascus, liberating all its prisoners. Possibly this could mean that the end of five decades of Assad family rule was edging close.

This was the first time since opposition forces reached Damascus in 2018 when Syrian troops then recaptured areas around the capital after a siege lasting several years.

This time, Damascus seems to have fallen, with Bashar Al-Assad nowhere to be seen, indeed. Reports now claim that he has fled the nation.

According to Rami Abdurrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Assad flew from Damascus and left early Sunday. No immediate official statement from the Syrian government, however.

HTS stated that they freed from Assad the city of Damascus while further ordaining their fighters not to harm the Public buildings in the city under the ex-Prime Minister Ghazi al-Jalali for now.

He previously stated that the government was willing to give a hand with opposition and handover the governance to them.

These events situations have come to develop rapidly, shattering the region. Lebanon said it shall close all land border crossings with Syria, except for one that links Beirut with Damascus. Jordan also province with this matter.7

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