the history of Syria, New Lines’ Middle East Editor Kareem Shaheen and Editorial Director Rasha Elass join Faisal Al Yafai on The Lede to discuss how the Assad regime’s collapse happened so quickly, the terrible symbolism of the Sednaya prison complex and what’s next for Syria’s future.

Further reading:

The Backstory Behind the Fall of Aleppo by Hassan Hassan and Michael Weiss
Assad Was Disengaging From Iran, but His Next Steps Are Unclear by Rasha Elass
Syrians Ponder a Future After Aleppo by Kamal Shahin
Dawn in Damascus by Kareem Shaheen
Liberation in Syria Is a Victory Worth Embracing by Layla Maghribi
With Assad in Moscow, Putin Scrambles To Save Face — and his Syrian Bases by Amie Ferris-Rotman
Hope and Despair at Assad’s ‘Human Slaughterhouse’ by Aubin Eymard and Cian Ward

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1d:T43e,President Bashar al-Assad has fled Syria, ending 50 years of authoritarian rule by his family. Over the weekend, rebels who had already taken Aleppo and Hama began to close in on the city of Homs and set their eyes on the capital Damascus.As it became clear that Assad had fled, the BBC's Lina Sinjab crossed the border from Lebanon, becoming the first western journalists to report from Damascus as a new era began. She tells Azadeh Moshiri how some Syrians celebrated while others looted the president's former home. And our

The End of Assad and a New Era for Syria...