- Title: Chanting, dancing as celebrations carry on in Damascus after fall of Assad
- Date: 12th December 2024
- Summary: DAMASCUS, SYRIA (DECEMBER 12, 2024) (REUTERS) REBELS CLIMBING IN TOP OF EACH OTHER AND HOLDING OPPOSITION SYRIAN FLAG CHILD WITH MAP OF SYRIA PAINTED ON HER FACE HOLDING FLAG REBEL CELEBRATING VARIOUS OF REBEL HOLDING MAN ON HIS SHOULDER WHO IS HOLDING CHILD ON HIS SHOULDERS VARIOUS OF REBELS CELEBRATING HOLDING MACHINE GUNS ON THEIR HANDS PEOPLE CELEBRATING CHILD WITH MAP OF SYRIA PAINTED ON HER FACE HOLDING FLAG WOMEN HOLDING SYRIAN FLAG CELEBRATING
- Embargoed: 26th December 2024 13:32
- Keywords: Bashar Al-Assad Damascus celebrations dancing demise flags
- Location: DAMASCUS, SYRIA
- City: DAMASCUS, SYRIA
- Country: Syria
- Topics: Middle East,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001673112122024RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Syrians gathered in Damascus on Thursday (December 12) as celebrations continued in Damascus following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad.
The world is carefully watching to see if Syria's new rulers can stabilise the country after a 13-year civil war fought along sectarian and ethnic lines destroyed the country.
Banks reopened for the first time since Assad's overthrow on Tuesday (December 10). Shops also opened again, traffic returned to the roads, cleaners were out sweeping the streets and there were fewer armed men about.
Rebuilding Syria will be a colossal task following a civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people. Cities have been bombed to ruins, swathes of countryside depopulated, the economy gutted by international sanctions and millions of refugees still live in camps after one of the biggest displacements of modern times.
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