Security forces used to regularly raid a Damascus district where many phone stores operate to enforce an Assad-linked company's monopoly
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Some shops were forced to close by the repeated raids and extortion under Assad
A branch of Syria's Military Intelligence and pro-Assad militiamen were involved in ensuring Emmatel's monopoly
Syrian phone shop owner Abdel Razzaq Hamra was thrilled to finally be working in peace after years of being harassed and detained by security …
The presidential palace in Damascus on December 8, hours after rebel forces declared they had taken the Syrian capital
Maps of Syria showing the change in approximate areas controlled by the different forces between December 3 and December 9, the day after the …
Burnt out government building in Damascus following rebel takeover
Syrians entered Assad's residential palace in Damascus after his fall, ending 24 years of iron-fisted rule
Bashar al-Assad and wife Asma, in Paris in 2008
Hours before rebel forces seized Damascus and toppled his government on Sunday, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was already out of the countr…