(8 Dec 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Damascus, Syria - 8 December 2024
1. Tilt down of exterior of Iranian embassy with teared posters of Nasrallah and Soleimani
2. Sign of Iranian embassy
3. Wide of embassy
4. Destroyed window of embassy
5. Destroyed furniture
6. Iranian flag on the ground
7. Iranian documents with Lebanese Syrian and Iranian flags on it
STORYLINE:
Angry Syrians stormed the Iranian Embassy in Damascus on Sunday morning as president Bashar Assad was toppled and reportedly left the country.
The Posters of late Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani which were draping the embassy were torn. The offices in the embassy building were also destroyed.
Syria's government appears to have fallen after opposition fighters said they had entered Damascus following a stunning advance and a Syrian opposition war monitor reported that President Bashar Assad had left the country.
Rami Abdurrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition group, said Assad took a flight from Damascus and left early Sunday. There was no immediate official statement from the Syrian government.
It was the first time opposition forces had reached Damascus since 2018 when Syrian troops recaptured areas on the outskirts of the capital following a years-long siege.
The night before, opposition forces had taken the central city of Homs, Syria’s third largest, as government forces abandoned it.
The rapidly developing events have shaken the region. Lebanon said it was closing all its land border crossings with Syria except for one that links Beirut with Damascus. Jordan also closed a border crossing with Syria.
AP Video by Abdulrahman Shaheen
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