{"id":1611,"date":"2025-12-08T09:57:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:57:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:57:57","slug":"syrians-share-their-thoughts-one-year-on-from-the-fall-of-assad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1611","title":{"rendered":"Syrians share their thoughts one year on from the fall of Assad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">One year ago today, Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s 24-year rule came to an end, bringing a close to 13 years of brutal civil war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">On 8 December 2024, Assad stepped down as Syria&#8217;s president and fled to Russia, marking one of the most significant political shifts in the Middle East in decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Twelve months on, the dust has begun to settle but the country is still grappling with the immense social, political and emotional toll left behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">While Syria&#8217;s interim government has promised to protect all its citizens, not just the majority population of Sunni Muslims, hundreds of people from the country&#8217;s Alawite and Druze minorities have been killed in sectarian attacks, including by members of the government&#8217;s forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The BBC&#8217;s Middle East correspondent, Hugo Bachega, is in Syria&#8217;s capital, Damascus, speaking to Syrians about how life has changed since the revolution. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Syrians #share #thoughts #year #fall #Assad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year ago today, Bashar al-&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}