DAMASCUS: Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa attended a celebration in Aleppo commemorating the first anniversary of the city’s liberation from the regime of Bashar Assad. Aleppo was the first city to rise up against the regime in 2011. Other cities followed suit. The alliance, led by Al-Sharaa, entered Aleppo on Nov. 29 last year and swiftly took control of Syria’s second city. Al-Sharaa said that the city’s liberation marked the beginning of the liberation of the entire Syrian Arab Republic, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported.