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Syrian President Bashar Assad Ousted From Power in Bloodless Coup After 13-Year Civil War
Syrian President Bashar Assad has been ousted In a bloodless coup by rebel forced following a 13-year civil war.
The rebels, who are called the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham fighters, moved swiftly, entering Damascus and taking over the city as government military fled, hours after Assad had absconded. Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali, who at present remains in place, said in a video statement that he is ready to “extend its hand” to the opposition forces and turn over power to a transitional government. They include Waad Al-Kateab, co-director of Oscar-nominated civil war diary “For Sama” that traveled around the world; veteran auteur Ossama Mohammed, whose “Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait” screened at Cannes in 2014 and bore witness to the horrors of civil war using cellphone footage sent to him by hundreds of Syrians; and outgoing International Documentary Festival Amsterdam chief Orwa Nyrabia and his wife Syrian director Diana El Jeiroudi, whose non-conventional doc “Republic of Silence” depicted the turmoil of Syria’s uprising seen from the outside.
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