One 12 months in the past at this time, Bashar al-Assad’s 24-year rule got here to an finish, bringing a near 13 years of brutal civil warfare.
On 8 December 2024, Assad stepped down as Syria’s president and fled to Russia, marking probably the most important political shifts within the Center East in many years.
Twelve months on, the mud has begun to settle however the nation remains to be grappling with the immense social, political and emotional toll left behind.
Whereas Syria’s interim authorities has promised to guard all its residents, not simply the bulk inhabitants of Sunni Muslims, lots of of individuals from the nation’s Alawite and Druze minorities have been killed in sectarian assaults, together with by members of the federal government’s forces.
The BBC’s Center East correspondent, Hugo Bachega, is in Syria’s capital, Damascus, chatting with Syrians about how life has modified for the reason that revolution.