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- Syria’s toppled leader Bashar al-Assad has said in a social media statement attributed to him that he was evacuated to Russia from Syria’s Khmeimim airbase on the evening of December 8 as it came under drone attacks, after leaving Damascus that morning with opposition fighters closing in.
- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Israeli attacks have targeted military sites in Syria’s coastal Tartous region, calling them “the heaviest strikes” in the area in more than a decade.
- Israel’s government has approved a plan to increase the number of settlers in the illegally occupied Golan Heights, days after seizing more Syrian territory following the ousting of al-Assad.
- Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the group that now heads the new Syrian administration, said that all armed factions will be disbanded and that only the new Syrian state army would be allowed to carry weapons.