Syria’s Premier Says Government Is Ready To ‘Extend Its Hand’ to Opposition as Assad Reportedly Flees Country

Events suggest that the end of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime could be imminent.

AP/Omar Albam
An image of Syria's president, Bashar Al-Assad, riddled with bullets, on the facade of the provincial government office in the aftermath of the opposition's takeover of Hama, December 6, 2024. AP/Omar Albam

BEIRUT — Syria’s prime minister, Mohammed Ghazi Jalali, said early Sunday that the government is ready to “extend its hand” to the opposition and hand over its functions to a transitional government.

“I am in my house and I have not left, and this is because of my belonging to this country,” Mr. Jalili said in a video statement. He said he would go to his office to continue work in the morning and called on Syrian citizens not to deface public property.

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