Al Jazeera's Justin Salhani compares Damascus on the day after al-Assad's fall with one year later.
Al Jazeera’s Justin Salhani compares Damascus on the day after al-Assad’s fall with one year later.
By Justin Salhani
Share
Save
Damascus, Syria – On the morning of December 5, 2025, a taxi drove me across the Lebanon-Syria border. This time was different from my first trip across, in the early hours of December 9, 2024, just a day after Bashar al-Assad fled Syria for Moscow.
When al-Assad fell, Mohamad Yamen finally felt free. On the first anniversary, he speaks of his hopes for the future.
Thousands have taken to the streets in the central city, celebrating a new Syria free of al-Assad's reign.
LONDON: As Syrians this week marked one year since the downfall of Bashar Assad, a survey conducted inside the country has found…
It is true that Bashar Assad left the palace on the evening of Saturday, Dec. 7, and that Ahmad Al-Sharaa entered it the next day…
After decades of dictatorship and 13 years of civil war, can Syria put itself back together? Our journalists traveled the length…
'Syria after Assad' (2/4). Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's dictatorial regime one year ago, more than 1.2 million exiled…
