Women use their mobile phones near a damaged picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as people celebrate
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Russia says Assad has left Syria as rebels seize the capital

Syrians are celebrating and looting places, including the presidential palaces, as our correspondents in Damascus witness.
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