After a 14-year struggle that started with the Arab Spring, and after more than a half-century in power, the Al-Assad regime in Syria has finally fallen. Syrian rebel forces swept across the country and entered Damascus with little or no resistance as the Syrian army melted away.
This is an adapted excerpt from the Dec. 8 episode of 'Ayman.' On Saturday, Syria’s rebel forces stormed the capital, Damascus, and declared President Bashar al-Assad’s 24-year dictatorship was over. On Sunday, it was reported that he fled to Moscow. These events didn’t just mark the end of Assad’s regime — it was the collapse of more than 50 years of Assad family rule. The speed of the takeover was astonishing.
A former Syrian diplomat who later joined the opposition told The Wall Street Journal that Assad released them because he feared a continued peaceful revolution. He wanted them to interrupt that progress. Nearly a year after the revolution began, I traveled to Daraa, the heart of the uprising, for NBC News and saw firsthand how life changed under Assad’s brutal crackdown. Things got even worse when the unthinkable happened.
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