This story is built on previous Rest of World reporting from Emily Wither, Kaya Genç, and Danny Makki.
A dictator falls unexpectedly. Then what?
Fourteen years of a brutal civil war came to a sudden end on the morning of December 8, 2024, when rebel fighters stormed the Syrian capital of Damascus. Government forces fell away, and President Bashar al-Assad, whose family had ruled the country for more than 50 years, fled to Moscow.
Over the course of a year of reporting, Rest of…

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