“Freedom! We are free of the Dictator!” said a released prisoner from Bashar al-Assad’s Saydnya Prison, a house of horrors that was the last stop for tens of thousands including many of the corpses discovered on the site.
What happened in Syria is nothing less than the final leg of a revolution that started in 2011 and lasted thirteen years. Just three weeks ago, the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin’s Arab protégé seemed stable and under the firm control of all but two small parts of the Syrian hinterlands. Assad did not have the north central rebel city of Idlib and the northeastern Kurdish regions in his grasp. The Northeastern areas were taken by force from the Islamic State terrorist group by the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and, by extension, the US Special Forces who advised and guided them.
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