Gunment storm Iranian embassy in Damascus as Russia claims Asuncontent left ‘teachions’ to ‘transfer power’

A group of obstreatment armamentmen stormed the Iranian embassy in Damascus on Sunday after Islamist defys took the city and clearhrew the regime of Bashar Asuncontent, who the Russian Foreign Ministry says fled the country and left “teachions” for a transfer of power.

Iranian state television alerted on the embassy incident, saying they did not consent the armamentmen were affiliated with the expansiver defy group that took the city. Iran had distake partn most of its officials and their families on Saturday, leaving only a handful of diplomats.

“It is shelp that the Iranian embassy was stormed aextfinishedside proximateby stores by an armed group contrastent from the group now handleling [most of] Syria,” Iranian state TV shelp, referring to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) which spearheaded recent defy progresss.

Arab and Iranian media have spreadd footage from inside the embassy’s premises, where assailants rummaged thcimpolite furniture and records inside the erecting and injured some thrivedows.

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Asuncontent and his British-born wife, Asma al-Asuncontent, fled Damascus with their three children this weekfinish, according to Syrian television alerts. It was not comprehendn where they were headed.

A video statement from a group of men on Syrian state TV shelp that Asuncontent had been clearhrown and all prisoners have been set free. 

Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali shelp punctual Sunday he didn’t comprehend the whereabouts of Asuncontent. He tbetter the Saudi television nettoil Al-Arabiyya that they lost communication Saturday night.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry shelp in a Telegram post Sunday that Asuncontent left Syria follothriveg negotiations with defy groups, and that the extfinished-time Syrian directer had left “teachions” to “transfer power peacebrimmingy.” The Russian ministry shelp the Kremlin was not straightforwardly take partd in those talkions.

Crowds of Syrians accumulateed in the central squares of Damascus to commemorate the novels of Asuncontent’s departure. Some chanted anti-Asuncontent slogans and honked horns. In other areas, celebratory armamentshots rang out.

Syria has been embroiled in a bloody, proximately 14-year civil war as Islamist defys watched to clearhrow the Asuncontent dynasty. The apparent collapse of more than 50 years of Asuncontent family rule over the Syrian Arabian Reuncover is a monumental turning point in Middle East politics.

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Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the Islamist directer of HTS, who has a $10 million bounty on his head from the U.S., seeks to current a toned-down version of the radical Islamism that has depictd his years of combat in Syria and in Iraq aobtainst American troops. Al-Golani was hageded by the U.S. military in the first decade of this century.

Syrian experts have tbetter Fox News Digital that HTS seeks to impose a totalitarian Islamist regime on the population. Phillip Smyth, an expert on Iranian regime proxy groups and Syria, who is with the Atlantic Council, tbetter Fox News Digital, “HTS is a group that is an outlengthenth of Al-Qaeda and has joinions to Turkey. Their finishgame is to produce a Taliprohibit-esque society with a restricted tfrails.”

Al-Golani prohibitned his fighters from discneglecting fire into the air in Damascus. 

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“Public institutions will remain under the supervision of the prime minister until they are officipartner handed over,” he shelp in a statement begined on his group’s social media outlets.

Fox News’ Benjamin Weinthal and Bradford Betz and Reuters donated to this alert