After more than a decade of brutal civil war, it took Islamist militants just 11 days to sweep through Syria and topple the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The offensive, which has been driven by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), has forced many residents in western Syria to flee their homes in search of safety.
Meanwhile, others are celebrating the end of the Assad family’s five-decade rule. There are long queues of people and cars at Lebanon’s Masnaa border crossing as displaced people return to Syria, and there is also significant congestion at the border with Turkey.
