CNN mapped how rebel groups captured several key cities, cutting off pro-regime forces and successfully toppling Assad’s regime after 11 days of fighting.

Early Sunday, the rebels said they had made it to the capital, Damascus, after a week of stunning military advances against Syrian regime forces. An Islamist armed group known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham entered the city from the north,

Syria's new authorities launched an operation in a stronghold of ousted president Bashar al-Assad on Thursday, with a war monitor saying three gunmen affiliated with the former government were killed.