Inside Bashar al-Assad’s dungeons
With the dictator gone, Syrians are desperately searching for loved ones lost in his prisons
AS NEWS OF the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the dictator’s flight spread over the weekend, many Syrians rushed to the public squares to celebrate. In Damascus, women draped in the green-and-black flag of the Syrian opposition chanted for Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, the Islamist leader who had masterminded the rebels’ offensive that brought down Mr Assad in less than two weeks. Fighters fired their weapons into the sky in celebration.
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