Assad regime collapses in Syria

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) - Syria's 13-year civil war is over.

President Joe Biden says the Syrian president Bashar Assad fled his country over the weekend.

Also, this weekend President-elect Donald Trump met with the Ukrainian president as he suggests the U.S.  will probably reduce military support in Ukraine’s fight with Russia.

President Biden said over the weekend this is an opportunity for the people of Syria to forge their own future.

Russian state media reports Bashar Assad and his family are in Moscow.

There’s excitement in the Syrian capital of Damascus and around the world after the end of Syria’s 13-year civil war.

“The Assad regime has fallen,” said Biden.

President Biden calls it a moment of historic opportunity.

Prosecutors say former Syrian president Bashar Assad used the military and chemical weapons on his own people bolstered by partners overseas but with Iran-backed groups, Hamas and Hezbollah, locked in battle with Israel, and Russia calling on North Korea to help in its battle with Ukraine, Assad’s allies appeared reluctant to intervene.

“The upshot for all this is…for the first time ever, either Russia, nor Iran, nor Hezbollah could defend the support regime in Syria,” said Biden.

President-elect Donald Trump said, “It certainly seems like the world is going a little crazy right now.”

Over the weekend President-elect Trump met with French president Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Trump says he will likely reduce U.S. aid for Ukraine and said in a TV interview he's working to end the war with Russia.

President-elect Trump would not answer when asked whether he's spoken to Russian president Vladimir Putin since the election, but he called for an immediate ceasefire in the nearly three-year war between Russia and Ukraine.