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Dec 2024
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Inside Damascus after the fall of Bashar...

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Foreign correspondent William Christou travels to Damascus, hours after Syria’s decades-long dictator Bashar al-Assad is ousted from power, and asks whether the country’s thirteen-year civil war can finally come to an end. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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