New page written in history, remain committed to serving citizens: Syrian Foreign Min after end of Assad's rule

After fall of the government, Syria's Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that it would continue to serve citizens abroad after rebels seized the capital Damascus.

The ministry "and its diplomatic missions abroad will remain committed to serving" and assisting all citizens, its website said, as several other ministries and public institutions called on employees to return to work, reassuring Syrians services would continue.

“A new page is being written in the history of Syria,” the country’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Sunday. The ministry and its diplomatic missions around the world will “remain committed to serving all fellow citizens and managing their affairs,” the statement said, asserting that the future of Syria will be one in which “justice and equality prevail.”


Syria's government appears to have fallen after opposition fighters said they had entered Damascus following a stunning advance and a Syrian opposition war monitor reported that President Bashar Assad had left the country.

Rami Abdurrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition group, said Assad took a flight from Damascus and left early Sunday. There was no immediate official statement from the Syrian government.

It was the first time opposition forces had reached Damascus since 2018 when Syrian troops recaptured areas on the outskirts of the capital following a yearslong siege.

The night before, opposition forces had taken the central city of Homs, Syria’s third largest, as government forces abandoned it.