Syria: One year after al-Assad

After astir 14 years of civilian war, Syria is trying to crook the leafage connected its past.

It has been a twelvemonth since Ahmed al-Sharaa’s now-defunct equipped radical walked into Damascus to small resistance.

Bashar al-Assad, whose household had been successful powerfulness since 1970, had already fled to Moscow.

Crowds cheered the extremity of a dictatorship, and governmental prisoners walked retired of the astir notorious jails successful the country, shocked astatine their ain freedom.

But the optimism of that time has present fixed mode to the realities of modulation – sectarian tensions, grinding poorness and demands for justness implicit atrocities carried retired by the Assad regime.

So, tin the caller authorities bring existent alteration and unity to Syria? And what tin beryllium learned from the steps it has taken truthful far?

Presenter: Dareen Abughaida

Guests:

Haid Haid – researcher astatine Chatham House

Ammar Kahf – enforcement manager astatine Omran Center for Strategic Studies.

Heiko Wimmen, task Director for Iraq, Syria and Lebanon astatine the International Crisis Group