Syrian security checkpoints sat empty on Monday across Damascus. Abandoned tanks were scattered across the roads, along with stray pieces of military uniforms stripped off by soldiers when opposition forces stormed into the city a day earlier.
We're shocked; all of us are just shocked, one woman, Shahnaz Sezad, 50, said. It's as if we're all coming back to life after a nightmare.
By day's end, with Mr. al-Assad and his family having fled on a plane to his ally Russia, thousands of Syrians had converged at Umayyad Square in the city center to revel in the fall of the regime.
One rebel shouted into a microphone: The Syrian people want to execute Bashir! The Syrian people want to execute Bashir! A deafening paw-paw-paw of gunfire sounded as others shot into the air.
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