President-elect Trump on Sunday morning reacted to the news that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad had fled Syria after rebels stormed the capital Damascus.
“Assad is gone,” President Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social. “He fled the 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 “I completely lost interest in Ukraine,” as nearly 600,000 Russian soldiers had been wounded or killed in a war that should never have started and could last forever. ”
“Russia and Iran are currently in a weakened state, one because of Ukraine and the economic recession, and the other because of Israel and its fighting successes,” his post continued. “Similarly, Zelensky and Ukraine also want to make an agreement and stop the madness. They have lost 400,000 soldiers and many more civilians, tremendously. Immediate ceasefire and start negotiations. You should.”
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad exiles as Islamic rebels conquer country
President-elect Trump reacted Sunday morning to the news that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has fled Syria. (Getty Images)
President Trump added: “Too many lives have been needlessly wasted, too many families have been destroyed, and this could lead to something much bigger and worse. He knows this very well. Now is the time for him to take action. China can do it.” Please help us, the world is waiting! ”
Syrian TV reports said Assad and his British-born wife Asma al-Assad, who used chemical weapons on his people multiple times, fled with their three children, but it was unclear where they went.
A video statement from a group of men on Syrian state television announced that President Bashar al-Assad had been overthrown and that all prisoners had been released.
“Assad is gone. He fled the country,” Trump wrote. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)
The man who read the statement said the Damascus Conquest Operations Room called on all opposition fighters and citizens to uphold the state institutions of the “free Syrian state.”
“Long live a free Syrian state for all Syrians and all their sects and ethnicities,” the statement said.
Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali said early Sunday that he did not know where Assad was.
Syria's Islamic rebels catch Assad, Putin and the Iranian regime off guard, creating new Middle East headache
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 town of Bint Jubeir on August 17, 2006. (Patrick Baz/AFP via Getty Images)
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Thousands of Syrians gathered in Damascus's central square to celebrate President Assad's resignation.
Syria has been embroiled in nearly 14 years of bloody civil war as Islamic rebels seek to overthrow Assad and end his family's more than 50-year rule over the Syrian Arab Republic.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
