Clarissa Ward

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Apple News Today · Why a young Ivy grad allegedly killed a health-insurance CEO · 11 Dec 2024 podcast

We have heard Israeli airstrikes throughout the night, almost every night since Bashar al-Assad fell. Israel has taken more territory along its border with Syria, they say, to create a sort of buffer zone, a security zone. But that has raised concern and some anguish here, of course, in Syria, too. I think it's also very difficult to predict what the region will look like going forward.

For Iran, the fall of Bashar al-Assad is a devastating blow. It comes on the heels of Hezbollah's leadership in Lebanon being decimated by Israel. And really, it signifies the end of this Iranian project that we saw across the so-called Shia crescent.

The Assad family ruled Syria for more than 50 years, and it was a brutal, totalitarian police state. Even before the civil war began, uprisings like one in the city of Hama were crushed with brute force. There was no political freedom. There's definitely a mixture of emotions, excitement, jubilation, trepidation, as everyone waits to see what this new chapter will bring.

The Sednaya prison is really synonymous with Assad's brutal regime, with its industrial scale mechanisms of forcible, arbitrary detainment and torture and killing. It was dubbed by human rights groups as a slaughterhouse where people vanished, never to be seen again.

When we arrived at the Sednaya prison, we saw thousands of people pouring in from all over the country, desperately looking for their loved ones. Despite prisons being emptied, for some, their questions may never get answered. Is my son dead or alive? Is my sister or brother in this prison or that prison?

The cruelty, the agony of not knowing, of not having that closure is something that will live on here for many years to come.

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