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Today, the U.S. withdraws its troops from Syria.

The Kurds have lost air support, which U.S. was integral in providing.

It's potentially lost intelligence in terms of

its place in terms of Syria. It's definitely been weekend. We'll look at Syria's ongoing

transition from U.S. foe to cautious ally. I'm Kevin Horton, and this is The Take.

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My name is Natasha Dannon.

I work for Siri Direct.

I'm the executive director at Syria direct,

and I'm based in Damascus, Syria.

Welcome to The Take.

So, Natasha, you've been reporting about Syria for years now,

both before and after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. I mean, there's so much happening every day. Can you put into words, like,

what it's like there, how you've managed to keep up with all of the pace of change since this

major event, December 2024? So, yeah, things have been evolving very rapidly in Syria.

There was first the fall of the regime.

A dynastic rule that survived five decades, including uprisings and civil wars,

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