Syrians have ransacked a residence belonging to the ousted President Bashar al-Assad, after Islamist-led rebels swept into Damascus and declared he had fled the country. Crowds cheered in the streets of Damascus, where celebratory gunfire erupted as five…

The tomb of Hafez al-Assad, the father of deposed Syrian president Bashar, has been torched by rebels in his hometown of Qardaha.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor told AFP the rebels had set fire to the mausoleum, located in the Latakia…