What’s next for Syria

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🗓️ 9 December 2024

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After more than a decade of destructive civil war in Syria, it was widely assumed that the Assad regime would keep its grip on power. Instead, lightly armed rebels were able to launch an offensive that succeeded in toppling the regime in less than two weeks. Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow.

Louisa Loveluck spoke with Martine Powers as she prepared to cross into Syria.

Today’s show was produced by Sabby Robinson, with help from Ted Muldoon, Emma Talkoff and Ariel Plotnick. It was mixed by Justin Gerrish and edited by Monica Campbell, with help from Maggie Penman and Reena Flores. Thanks to Naomi Schanen, Lior Soroka, Mohamad El Chamaa, Jesse Mesner-Hage, Jenn Amur and Andrew Golden.

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0:00.0	Hey, Louisa, how are you doing?
0:03.6	Hey, I'm good.
0:05.6	So, Louisa Lovelock, as a foreign correspondent for The Post, you are currently trying to get into Syria, where the government of President Bashar al-Assad was just overthrown.
0:18.1	You're in Southeast Turkey right now, waiting on the Syrian border to enter,
0:23.4	and as I understand it, while you've been waiting, you've been talking to people. And you had a
0:28.2	conversation in particular with a man who's trying to find his brother. Can you tell me a little
0:33.6	bit about him? Jihad Delane is a Syrian man living in southern Turkey,
0:38.6	and he's one of many who fled the country during the war.
0:41.6	And he's been waiting a year and a half to hear his younger brother Majd's voice.
0:46.7	Majid was arrested from their home in Damascus alongside their elderly parents.
0:50.9	I combined patrol, a combined strike force attacked our apartment, and they took my brother,
1:03.0	along with my dad and mom.
1:05.0	Oh, wow.
1:06.0	Yeah, the three of them.
1:07.0	It was the summer of 2023.
1:10.0	The parents were eventually released, but not Majid.
1:13.6	And why they were arrested remains a mystery.
1:16.6	Dragnets, mass arrests were typical during Assad's regime.
1:21.6	No, nobody even was able to really let us know what he actually did. And although the parents have had some contact, they haven't been able to really let us know what he actually did.
1:28.1	And although the parents have had some contact,
1:31.1	they haven't been able to communicate on the phone about his case.
1:33.3	They haven't been able to hear the details.
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