2024-12-10
34 分钟This is the Guardian today inside Damascus, on its streets and in its prisons as Bashar Al Assad falls.
Early in the Syrian civil war, as people across the country started rising up against the regime of Bash Bashar al Assad, this graffiti started to appear on the walls.
In some places it said Al Asad AW Nehru, Al Balat Assad, or we burn the country.
It was a message from Assad's supporters there would be no compromise, no negotiations.
And they followed through.
Devastation in the rebel held Sukkari neighborhood of Aleppo on Wednesday.
Activists blame a barrel bombing by government forces over the first decade of the war.
Syrian cities were raised to rubble.
Syrian rebels today once again claim the Assad regime used chemical weapons.
Up to half a million people were killed.
More than 5 million Syrians forced to flee their country.
Amnesty International has released a new report on torture by the Syrian government.
They start to kick me on my face and also they start to kick me on my chest, on my back.
The tortured last for around one hour and Assad held on to power.
But over these past two weeks at a stunning speed, the five decade rule of the house of Assad, it all just collapsed.
Aleppo, Syria's second biggest city back in opposition hands.
First, the city of Aleppo fell to rebels in a lightning advance at the end of November and they kept marching south.
Just over a week since it started and this extraordinary rebel advance rolls on.
Within days, the Syrian army had pulled out of another major city, Hama, and the rebels kept moving.
Speed at which the armed opposition is advancing across the country has astonished everyone.