Damascus, Dec 16, 2024 (AFP) - Assad denies 'planned' exit from Syria, calls new leaders 'terrorists'

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2024-12-16

Bashar al-Assad on Monday said he fled Syria only after Damascus had fallen and denounced the country's new leaders as "terrorists", in his first remarks since rebels seized the capital and unseated him. An Islamist-led rebel alliance launched a lightning offensive from its northwest Syria bastion on November 27, swiftly capturing major cities from government control and taking the capital on December 8. "My departure from Syria was neither plann......

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