Reuters: Assad flew from Damascus to an unknown destination

Syrian President Bashar Assad has left the country's capital by plane, according to Reuters and Al Hadath sources.

According to Reuters, Assad flew to an unknown destination from Damascus on Sunday. The Syrian Human Rights Monitoring Center cites data that he left the city on Saturday at ten o'clock in the evening.

Opposition forces announced that they had entered Damascus.

The telegram channel of the united command of the opposition and Islamists "Al-Fatah al-Mubin" says that "Assad has fled." The rebels said they were declaring "Damascus free of the tyrant Bashar al-Assad."

The first reports about the departure of Bashar al-Assad appeared the day before, then the office of the President of Syria denied them.

"The Chancellery confirms that the president continues to fulfill his national and constitutional duties from the capital," they said on the evening of December 7.

WSJ writes that Assad returned from international trips "empty—handed" - the allies did not make concrete offers of help.

Bloomberg, citing sources, claims that Assad offered US President-elect Donald Trump to negotiate a deal. In particular, the Syrian president offered the United States, in exchange for ending cooperation between Damascus and Tehran, to use its influence to stop the fighting.