Rebel fighters stormed into Syria’s capital, Damascus, on Sunday, taking them to the brink of a stunning victory as Syrian forces and their leader, President Bashar Assad, appeared to be fleeing. In just two weeks, a bitter stalemate that had held for years in Syria has been snapped. The main rebel coalition announced on its Telegram channel on Sunday that it had taken Damascus, while two regional officials confirmed the fighters had entered the capital and Syrian forces were withdrawing. After Assad had kept rebel forces at bay for more than a decade with Iranian and Russian military support, a coalition of rebel groups who had been pinned into a small corner of the country’s northwest has swept through the country and its major cities.
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