Syria’s armed opposition says they have captured the capital, Damascus, and that President Bashar al-Assad has fled the country, AlJazeera reported.
The announcement comes after rebels seized the city of Homs in a lightning offensive hours earlier.
The Syrian president has fled Damascus on a plane for an unknown destination.
That’s according to two senior Syrian army officers speaking to the Reuters news agency and Rami Abdurrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, speaking to AP.
A Syrian Air plane took off from Damascus airport around the time the capital was reported to have been taken by rebels, according to data from the Flightradar website.
