See the fall of Damascus after Syrian rebels topple Assad’s regime : The Picture Show : NPR

Syrian opposition fighters celebrate the fall of the Syrian government, in Damascus, Syria on December 8, 2024.

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A man steps on a picture of Syria’s ousted president Bashar al-Assad as people enter his residence in Damascus’ Malki area after Islamist-led rebels declared that they have taken the Syrian capital in a lightning offensive, sending al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria.

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People stand atop a toppled statue of Syria’s late president Hafez al-Assad in Damascus.

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A man kisses a Syrian rebel fighter who returned to the central city of Homs, after being in exile for 12 years after rebel forces entered Syria’s third city overnight.

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Syrian rebel fighters and civilians gather in the central city of Homs, after rebel forces entered Syria’s third city overnight.

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A woman waves a Syrian opposition flag as she celebrates at Umayyad Square in Damascus.

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Opposition fighters celebrate in Damascus, Syria.

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An aerial view shows traffic on the streets in Syria’s capital Damascus, after Islamist-led rebels declared that they have taken the Syrian capital in a lightning offensive, sending al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria.

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Syrian opposition fighters drive along the Damascus-Beirut highway, Syria.

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Abu Mohammed al-Golani speaks at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. Golani, a former al-Qaida commander who cut ties with the group and says he embraces pluralism and religious tolerance, leads the biggest rebel faction and is poised to chart the country’s future.

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Syrian opposition fighters celebrate after the Syrian government collapsed in Damascus, Syria.

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Government soldiers and their allies huddle on the ground while being detained by insurgents in Homs, Syria.

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A fire burns in a room of the Tishrin residential palace of Syria’s ousted president Bashar al-Assad in Damascus’ al-Muhajirin area.

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An opposition fighter fires his AK-47 in the air in celebration after opposition forces took control of the city in Damascus.

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Syrian Islamist-led rebel fighters pray in a mosque in the central city of Homs early on December 8, 2024, after entering Syria’s third city overnight.

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Displaced Syrians break into tears as they return to central city of Homs, after rebel forces entered Syria’s third city overnight.

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A Syrian rebel fighter fires rounds as people celebrate near the Clock Tower in the central city of Homs, after rebel forces entered Syria’s third city overnight.

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Detained Syrian pro-government soldiers chant slogans outside the central city of Homs, after surrendering when rebel forces entered Syria’s third city overnight.

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A man tries to take a lamp as people search for belongings in the ransacked private residence of Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Malkeh district of Damascus, Syria.

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Residents celebrate the fall of the capital Damascus to opposition forces, in Homs, Syria.

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People wave guns in the air, as they gather to celebrate the fall of the Syrian regime in Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria.

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A damaged poster of Bashar al-Assad is seen as a fire burns at a security compound that houses the Syrian Military Intelligence Interrogation Division, in Damascus, Syria.

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A portrait of Hafez al-Assad, father of Bashar al-Assad, is seen discarded, in Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria.

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Members of armed groups celebrate by shooting into the air at the Umayyad Square after sixty-one years of Baath Party rule in Syria collapses on Sunday when, the capital fell out of the hands of regime control in Damascus, Syria.

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