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Share your reaction to the fall of Assad in Syria

Syrians gather at Umayyad Square to celebrate the collapse of 61 years of Baath Party rule in Damascus.
Syrians gather at Umayyad Square to celebrate the collapse of 61 years of Baath Party rule in Damascus. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Crowds in Syria have been celebrating the end of five decades of dynastic rule following the fall of the dictator Bashar al-Assad who has fled to Moscow.

People waved the Syrian revolutionary flag and pulled down statues and portraits of the president and his father, Hafez. Families have been reunited with loved ones long lost to the dark of the regime’s notorious prison system.

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