🇸🇾⚡- The Free Syrian Army is just 3km from cutting off the M5 Damascus-Homs highway.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian Arab Army withdraws from al-Qadam, right outside Damascus.

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, to finally address his nation at 8pm (Damascus time).

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: The Arab Tribal Army swears allegiance to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

The ATA have been Assad loyalists (mostly) for several years. The ATA is located along the Euphrates mainly, east Syria.

🇸🇾⚡- The Free Syrian Army's At Tanf-Palmyra front connects with the Daraa-Damascus front, ending a nine year siege of At Tanf.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡- "President Assad's family has fled to Russia," - Bild.

🇸🇾⚡- Pro-SAA outlets deny that Assad will be giving a speech shortly.

🇸🇾⚡- Zino Yasser Mahameed denies the Free Syrian Army has entered Damascus proper. Claims the clashes are between sleeper cells and the Syrian Arab Army.

🇸🇾⚡- Al-Ghouta, 2km from Damascus, has fallen to the Free Syrian Army.

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: Yabrud and al-Nabk have fallen, north Damascus.

And with that, Damascus has lost its connection with Homs.

🇸🇾⚡- Yabrud, Damascus direction, Syria.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu's Press Office announces another emergency defense cabinet meeting for tonight. The topic will once again be Syria.

🇷🇺🇸🇾⚡️- Reports that Russian naval vessels stationed at Tartus in Syria have begun to withdraw.

🇸🇾🇦🇪⚡️- A source close with the channel tells us that Assad has arrived in the United Arab Emirates with his family, having fled Damascus.

🇮🇱🇮🇷🇸🇾 — Amir Ohana, Speaker of the Israeli Knesset:

"What is happening in Syria is positive as it weakens Iran, Israel's greatest enemy.

Israel is carrying out operations in Syria, some of which are public and others are better kept secret".

🇸🇾⚡️- "The overthrow of the regime is imminent, and whoever defects from the regime is safe." - Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS.)

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡️- President-elect Donald Trump has met with French President Emmanuel Macron, and is now present at Notre Dame Cathedral for its re-opening ceremony.

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡️- Elon Musk is also present.

🇫🇷✝️⚡️- Archbishop Laurent Ulrich has struck the doors of Notre Dame three times, officially reinstating the cathedral as a place of worship.

🇸🇾⚡️- "Bashar al-Assad is not in Damascus." - CNN, citing a Syrian source.