damascus – Syria’s capital was on auto-pilot on Tuesday, without an ancient government in the park Dramatic Rebel Offensive Which overthrew long-time dictator Bashar al-Assad on Sunday. Although the previous al-Qaeda branch that led that price had put some of its senior men under the control of a self-proclaimed transitional management, many Syrians in general seemed motivated to attempt to move forward with the industry. .
Some institutions, including Syria’s Central Reserve, asked employees to report for work, and many were hoping that simply following daily routines would be the safest option given the uncertainty facing the country throughout the year. ,
Some efforts are being made to reduce the concern. Mohammed al-Bashir, a politician who in the past led the local government in northwestern Syria and parts of Idlib dominated by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, before its 12-day mild offensive, gave him a It has been named transitional. Top minister for the next three months.
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And while life there remains more anxious, there was still a palpable excitement, especially in the capital, Damascus, which until Sunday was the site of the Assad mob’s brutal stranglehold on power for half a century. On Monday, crowds came to see one of the former dictator’s important homes and to learn of the Islamist warring groups that descended on their city on Sunday.
The rebel forces who are patrolling the streets are on their best conduct – even allowing society figures to reserve their guns for smiling picture options.
“This is a celebration for all of us, for all Syrians: here and all over the world,” said Lina Zacher, one of the Syrians who came to tour the former president’s crowded housing. “My mother is Christian, so she is afraid. But we are telling her… we hope for a new Syria. We are all brothers, we are all sisters, we are all one! We are Syrians.”
At another icon of the regime, the Presidential Palace, society figures moved into the vast formal rooms where Assad once received dignitaries.
The concept of the existence of a place similar to a palace would at one time have been unimaginable to common people. Now, its doors are worth exploring. CBS News found that the palace was patrolled by a rebel soldier named Ahmed, who was nearly killed nine years ago while resisting Assad’s forces.
“I was personally targeted and was injured in an attack on our home in 2015. My relatives have been detained and I don’t know their fate,” Ahmed told CBS Information on Monday. ” “They may be in the regime’s prisons and I hope we can release them from it.”
Ahmed – like all alternative rebel warring parties – is waiting for ancient orders. Question marks abound over HTS’s efforts to gain political legitimacy, tarnished by controversial human rights records in the agricultural areas of Syria where it has ruled, and to heal the country’s religious divisions. Doubts remain about the group’s capability. ,
Parts of the country have been further devastated by the war due to fighting between Türkiye-backed opposition warring parties US-allied Kurdish forces In the north, and Islamic environmental activists and its extremist ideology are more active in the country’s wallet.
As Syria undergoes a seismic transition, the country is in a historic, but still bad, situation.
