Damascus, Dec 8 (AP) Syrian state TV has aired a video statement by a group of men saying that President Bashar Assad was overthrown and all prisoners have been set free.

The man who read a statement said the Operations Room to Conquer Damascus is calling on all opposition fighters and citizens to preserve state institutions of “the free Syrian state.”

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“Long live the free Syrian state that is to all Syrians and all” their sects and ethnic groups, they said. (AP)

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