Chief of Kurdish-led Syria force hails ‘historic’ fall of Assad

The commander of Syria’s US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which controls swathes of the country’s northeast, hailed “historic” moments on Sunday with the fall of the “authoritarian regime” of Bashar al-Assad.

“In Syria, we are living through historic moments as we witness the fall of the authoritarian regime in Damascus,” Commander Mazloum Abdi said in a statement on Telegram, adding that “this change presents an opportunity to build a new Syria based on democracy and justice that guarantees the rights of all Syrians”. (BSS/AFP)