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‘The army just ran away’: how Bashar al-Assad lost his brutal grip on Syria

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A year earlier , figures in the Islamist opposition group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in north-west Syria had sent a message to rebels in the south: get ready.

Once they broke through the first line of defence, however, “the army just ran away” The rebel advance was met with silence from Damascus .

But one after another, cities held by Assad ’s forces fell to opposition.

Syrians woke up to a new country and a new reality on Sunday morning .

In Omayyad square in downtown Syria , crowds began to form, cheering and hoisting the revolutionary flag.

This was a victory 13 years in the making, which, after peaceful protests were met with regime bullets and the opposition took up arms, had cost at least 350,000 lives.

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71

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Article tone

informal

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English

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43

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possibly offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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