Inside Damascus after the fall of Bashar al-Assad

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🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Foreign correspondent William Christou travels to Damascus, hours after Syria’s decades-long dictator Bashar al-Assad is ousted from power, and asks whether the country’s thirteen-year civil war can finally come to an end. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:08.6	Today, inside Damascus, on its streets and in its prisons, as Bashar al-Assad falls.
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1:40.0	Early in the Syrian Civil War, as people across the country started rising up against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, this graffiti started to appear on the walls in some places.
1:46.1	It said, al-Assad or we burn the country.
1:49.2	It was a message from Assad's supporters.
1:53.1	There would be no compromise, no negotiations.
1:55.5	And they followed through.
2:00.7	Devastation in the rebel held Sukari neighborhood of Aleppo on Wednesday.
2:05.0	Activists blame a barrel bombing by government forces.
2:09.7	Over the first decade of the war, Syrian cities were raised to rubble.
2:14.5	Syrian rebels today once again claim the Assad regime used chemical weapons.
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