President-elect Trump responded on Sunday morning to the news that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad had fled Syria after rebels stormed the capital Damascus.
“Assad is gone,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “He fled his country. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was no longer interested in protecting him. There was no reason for Russia to be there in the first place. They lost all interest in Syria. because of Ukraine, where nearly 600,000 Russian soldiers lay wounded or dead, in a war that should never have started and could go on forever.
“Russia and Iran are currently in a weakened state, one because of Ukraine and a poor economy, the other because of Israel and its fighting success,” his post continued. “Similarly, Zelensky and Ukraine are eager to make a deal and stop the madness. They have ridiculously lost 400,000 soldiers, and many more civilians. There must be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations must begin.”
SYRIAN DICTATOR BASHAR ASSAD FLEES INTO EXILE AS ISLAMIC REBELS CONQUEST LAND
Newly elected President Trump responded on Sunday morning to the news that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad had fled Syria. (Getty Images)
Trump added: “Too many lives are being wasted so needlessly, too many families destroyed, and if it continues, it could spiral into something much bigger and much worse. I know Vladimir well. This is his time to act. China can do that. staff. The world awaits!”
Assad, who used chemical weapons against his population several times, and his British-born wife, Asma al-Assad, fled with their three children, according to Syrian television reports, although it was not known where they went.
A video statement by a group of men on Syrian state television said Assad had been overthrown and all prisoners had been released.
‘Assad is gone. He has fled his country,” Trump wrote. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)
The man reading a statement said the Operations Room to Conquer Damascus calls on all opposition fighters and civilians to preserve the state institutions of “the free Syrian state.”
‘Long live the free Syrian state that is for all Syrians and all their sects and ethnic groups, the statement said.
Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali said early on Sunday that he did not know where Assad was.
ISLAMIC REBELS IN SYRIA CATCH ASSAD, PUTIN, IRAN GUARD REGIMES AND GIVE US NEW MIDDLE EAST HEADACHES
Portraits of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (left) and his late father and predecessor Hafez hang on the wall of a destroyed apartment in the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil, August 17, 2006. (PATRICK BAZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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Crowds of Syrians gathered in the central squares of Damascus to celebrate Assad’s departure.
Syria is embroiled in a bloody, nearly fourteen-year civil war, in which Islamist rebels sought to overthrow Assad and end more than fifty years of Assad family rule over the Syrian Arab Republic.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
