One year after the collapse of Syriaโs Baath regime, the fireworks over Umayyad Square and the chants of a liberated capital cannot drown out a quieter truth: for tens of thousands of families still searching for the disappeared, the revolutionโs victory has yet to bring peace.
The fall of Bashar Assad on Dec. 8, 2024 โ ending more than six decades of Baathist rule โ reshaped the country with breathtaking speed.
The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) forces swept through major cities in a lightning ten-day offensive, culminating in the storming of Damascus and Assadโs flight to Moscow.
Syriaโs streets erupted in celebration; survivors of barrel bombs, starvation sieges and notorious prisons poured into public squares waving the three-star revolutionary flag.
But the euphoria soon met the hard e
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