After over 50 years, the Assad regime has fallen. Syrian author and activist Leila al-Shami writes about the first feeling of hope after the rebel advance.
Bombed, starved and besieged, Palestinian residents of Yarmouk refugee camp now face being permanently displaced as the Assad regime expropriates their homes.
The Syrian regime has employed violence, sectarianism and Machiavellian tactics to try and derail the revolution, defame its supporters and strengthen fringe jihadi movements, says Leila al-Shami.
