Syrian state TV broadcast an evening bulletin on Sunday (December 8) hours after President Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by rebel fighters.
Syria's rebels raced into Damascus unopposed on Sunday, ending nearly six decades of the Assad family's iron-fisted rule after a lightning advance that reversed the course of a 13-year civil war.
In one of the most consequential turning points in the Middle East for generations, the fall of Assad's government wiped out a bastion from which Iran and Russia exercised influence across the Arab world. Moscow gave him and his family asylum
