Syria’s Bashar al-Assad boarded a plane in Damascus for an unknown destination early on Sunday, two senior army officers said, as opposition forces seized the city and ousted him from power after 24 years as president.Al-Assad has not spoken in public since the sudden opposition advance a week ago, when insurgents seized northern Aleppo in a surprise attack before marching into a succession of cities as frontlines crumbled.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.His whereabouts now – and those of his wife Asma and their two children – remain unknown.A Syrian Air plane took off from Damascus airport around the time the capital was reported to have been taken by opposition forces, according to data from the Flightradar website.The aircraft initially flew towards Syria’s coastal region, a stronghold of al-Assad’s Alawite sect, but then made an abrupt U-turn and flew in the opposite direction for a few minutes before disappearing off the