Inside Damascus: Sounds of gunfire and military kit abandoned

The BBC's Barbara Plett-Usher says everyone in the Syrian capital is "waiting to see what will happen next".

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President Assad is said to have left by plane to an unknown location, and "everyone is waiting to see what will happen next," she added.

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