People celebrate the New Year near Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria
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Umayyad Square in Damascus hummed to the throngs of people brandishing "revolution" flags as Syria saw in the new year with hope following 13 …
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…
A Syrian rebel fighter stands guard outside the long-feared defence ministry compound in central Damascus from which the Assads' myriad intell…
A rebel fighter reads one of the thouands files abandoned by the Assads' security services in the defence ministry complex in Damascus.