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We begin with the dramatic fall of Damascus and the ousting of a longtime dictator in Syria.

Rebel forces moving in quickly and in just over a week, seizing control of key cities

while forcing

Syria's president Bashar al-Assad from power after nearly a quarter century. President Joe

Biden calling this a moment of opportunity, risk, and uncertainty. The Pentagon says U.S.

Air Forces have struck more than 75 Islamic State targets in Syria.

Well, Syria's president and his family have reportedly been granted asylum in Russia.

After the Kremlin announced he left the country and gave instructions to, quote, transfer power peacefully,

effectively ending the Assad dynasty's brutal rule that lasted for over 54 years.

In the heart, Damascus's historic old city, Syrian rebels celebrated the fall of the regime.

They've been battling for nearly 14 years.

Scenes like this would have been unthinkable just one week ago, but President Bashar al-Assad is gone.

His palace, once impenetrable, now open to a photo-taking public.

Assad's astonishing defeat was at the hands of an alliance of armed rebel groups who launched a lightning fast

defensive and who faced little resistance from the Syrian army. Rebel forces say they have now,

quote, fully liberated a number of major cities, and have also emptied prisons that had become a

symbol of the widespread arrests and torture under Ussud's oppressive rule.

In a civil war that up until now had seen frozen.

But as the statues and monuments to the Ussud dynasty continued to be pulled to the ground,

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