"Around Damascus's Umayyad Square, children leaned out the windows, waving Syria's green, white and black flag as fireworks burst in the sky. December 8, the anniversary of liberation for the capital and the country as a whole, was two days away, but crowds had already begun to gather in the square. Nearby, standing alone and watching the festivities, stood Abu Taj, 24."
"From there, he fled to Damascus and then Beirut before flying to join his father in Saudi Arabia. After a decade in exile eight years in Saudi Arabia and two years studying in Egypt Abu Taj moved back to Syria. He arrived just more than a week before people from all over the country gathered to celebrate the operation that stormed Damascus and forced Bashar al-Assad to flee, in the early hours of the morning, to Moscow."
Days before December 8, crowds gathered around Damascus's Umayyad Square as children waved Syria's green, white and black flag and fireworks lit the sky. Many Syrians gathered to mark the capital's liberation and the country's liberation anniversary. Abu Taj, 24, returned after a decade in exile following his home's destruction in Aleppo countryside fighting, fleeing through Damascus, Beirut and Saudi Arabia, and studying in Egypt before moving back. The fall of the al-Assad regime ended a brutal police state known for torture and disappearances. Early liberation days brought elation across Syria alongside concern about the future and external pressures such as severe US sanctions.
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