Newspapers covering the fall of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his subsequent flight to Moscow have reflected on the Assad family’s five decades of dynastic rule in Syria, jubilation across the country, and questions over what will happen next.
The Guardian splashed with “Rebels seize Damascus as Assad flees to Moscow”, with a picture underneath of celebrations in Damascus. There was a pointer to Peter Beaumont’s profile of Assad, in which he writes: “Bashar is gone, swept out of power by an offshoot of al-Qaida. And with the dramatic ending of the half-century of Assad rule, a key section of the map of the Middle East has been utterly redrawn.”
