Opposition fighters seize al-Assad presidential palace in Syria's Damascus
Briefly

State television on Sunday aired a video statement by a group of men saying President Bashar al-Assad had been overthrown and all prisoners had been set free.
The man who read the statement said the opposition group, known as the Operations Room to Conquer Damascus, called on all opposition fighters and citizens to preserve the institutions of the free Syrian state.
Syria's war erupted in 2011 as an uprising against al-Assad's rule and quickly morphed into a full-blown conflict that dragged in foreign powers.
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