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A military vehicle belonging to the Syrian regime forces and seized by anti government forces burns after it was hit by regime forces, in the Hama governorate, on Saturday. —AFP photo

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said on Sunday that president Bashar al-Assad had left the country, after losing swathes of territory to a lightning rebel offensive while Islamist-led rebels said that they were ‘entering Damascus’.

Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said that ‘Assad left Syria via Damascus international airport before the army security forces left’ the facility. AFP was unable to immediately confirm the report.