Syria’s embassy in Moscow hoists HTS flag after Assad flees to Russia
FirstpostAfter the ouster of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian embassy in Moscow has hoisted the flag of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the main opposition group that led the offensive against the ousted regime Syrian Association in Denmark demonstrates, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, at City Hall Square, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Reuters A group of men at the Syrian embassy in Moscow raised the opposition flag there on Monday morning, an AFP journalist saw. Standing on the embassy balcony, the men clapped and sang as they raised the green, red, black and white Syrian opposition flag under falling snow. The source also said the rebels who ousted Assad in a lightning offensive “guaranteed the security of Russian army bases and diplomatic institutions on Syria’s territory”.
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