Residents of the capital reported the sounds of gunfire and explosions, and President Bashar Assad's whereabouts were unknown.
The head of a Syrian opposition war monitor said early Sunday that President Bashar Assad left the country for an undisclosed location, fleeing ahead of insurgents who said they had entered Damascus after a stunning advance across the country. Syrian opposition fighters said early Sunday local time that they had entered Damascus and residents of the capital reported the sounds of gunfire and explosions.
Three U.S. officials told CBS News that the al-Assad family's reign that started in 1971 appears to be ending.'The United States is not going to...militarily dive into the middle of a Syrian civil war,' White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told an audience at the Reagan National Defense Forum, an annual gathering of national security officials, defense firms and lawmakers at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.
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