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While US bombers were targeting ISIS targets in Syria, President Biden was saying the fall of the Assad regime presents an ‘opportunity’.

Sir Keir Starmer, on a tour of the Gulf, said Assad’s departure was an opportunity for the country, but has warned that the fall of other brutal regimes in the past had resulted in violence not peace. 

We spoke to Bissan al-Hallak, who lives in Damascus, and started by asking whether she was optimistic about the future of Syria.

After the fast moving events of the past week when rebels took major cities and gained control of Syria, today the extent of the brutality of the Assad regime was revealed by the liberation of a notorious prison in the capital, Damascus.

Thousands of Syrians displaced during the civil war, after enduring often long and perilous journeys, ended up settling here in the UK.

With Assad gone and the country in the hands of different groups of rebels, what now for the future of Syria? 

The Assad family survived the Cold War, multiple regional wars and a civil war. But in the end they couldn’t survive the distraction of Russia in Ukraine and Iran and Hezbollah, facing off against Israel.   

The capture of the Syrian capital Damascus was unprecedented –  with rebel forces apparently meeting little or no resistance. 

The South Korean parliament has failed in its attempt to impeach the country’s President Yoon Suk Yeol after his party boycotted the vote. 

We spoke to Ismail Alabdullah from the White Helmets, which is the volunteer emergency rescue service which operates in opposition-controlled areas. 

Syrian state media has reported that President Bashar al-Assad has not fled the country.

The killing of the boss of one of America’s biggest health insurers on a Manhattan street hasn’t prompted an outpouring of sympathy online but an outpouring of hate. 

We asked Ukrainian diplomat Vadym Pystaiko what it was like to negotiate with the Russians.

We spoke to the former US Ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford and began by asking him how he thought this conflict will end.

The advance of rebel forces in Syria accelerated at pace this afternoon, weakening President Bashar al-Assad’s grip on power with each and every foothold lost.