Residents in the Syrian capital tell of an anxious night waiting for news of the fall of Bashar Al-Assad.
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Watch: BBC reports from inside Damascus
The BBC’s Barbara Plett-Usher says everyone in the Syrian capital is “waiting to see what will happen next”.
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