Syria war updates: Opposition grants soldiers amnesty after al-Assad’s fall

The new administration is promising to uphold state institutions after capturing the capital, Damascus.

People hold pictures, as they celebrate after Syrian rebels announced that they had ousted President Bashar al-Assad, in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, December 9, 2024. [Shir Torem/Reuters]
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Exiled Syrians around the world celebrate the end of Assad’s rule

By Stephen Quillen, Urooba Jamal, Patrick Keddie, Edna Mohamed, Lyndal Rowlands, Umut Uras, Maziar Motamedi, Alice Speri and Virginia Pietromarchi
Published On 8 Dec 2024

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