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Syrian opposition forces raised their flag at the Syrian embassy in Moscow after ousting Bashar al-Assad, who reportedly fled to Russia.
Demonstrators react after raising a Syrian opposition flag at the Syrian embassy in Moscow (Photo: AFP)
A group of men at the Syrian embassy in Moscow raised the opposition flag there on Monday morning, an AFP journalist saw.
Standing on the embassy balcony, the men clapped and sang as they raised the green, red, black and white Syrian opposition flag under falling snow.
“Today the embassy opened and is working normally under a new flag,” an embassy representative told TASS state news agency.
Russia was a key ally of Syria’s ousted president, Bashar al-Assad.
A Kremlin source told Russian news agencies on Sunday that Assad and his family were in Moscow, hours after he fled the country as Islamist-led rebels entered Damascus.
The source also said the rebels who ousted Assad in a lightning offensive “guaranteed the security of Russian army bases and diplomatic institutions on Syria’s territory”.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – AFP)