Inside a stunning week across Syria following the overthrow of the Assad regime - FIRST PERSON: Bel Trew spent days travelling across Syria – from Aleppo in the north, to the capital Damascus and Deraa in the south – charting a nation coming to terms with the ends of decades of brutal rule by the Assads.

Syrian and Russian forces battled to bring Syria's second city of Aleppo under Assad's full control for years, unleashing widespread devastation.View on euronews

While the country’s conflict lines have been largely stalemated since 2020, Syria’s economic woes have only multiplied in the past few years.

Syria’s second-largest city of Aleppo is facing upheaval after the fall of the Assad regime to rebels. The city has seen heavy destruction from Syrian and Russian forces. Residents hope this new beginning will mark a change.

Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to the territory held by the rebel alliance that ousted Bashar al-Assad. The alliance holds much of Syria’s northwest,

The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and part of a larger global realignment.

The historic Baron Hotel in Syria’s Aleppo is dilapidated and damaged by years of war but still standing and ready for a revival, much like the

Once a vital economic hub and Syria's largest city, Aleppo was ravaged by years of fighting, until government forces, with help from Russia and Iran, finally recaptured the entire city in 2016.

Rebel fighters who took control of Aleppo about two weeks ago have promised security and continuity. Prices have skyrocketed, but residents express some hope for the future.

We should ask the militants who toppled Bashar al-Assad in Syria what became of missing U.S. reporter Austin Tice and why

After public protests and then rebellion erupted in Syria in 2011, Assad’s regime clung to power through systemic torture and relentless military campaigns with support from Iran, Russia, and an array of allied militias.

Bashar al-Assad became a client of Iran and Russia and fled the country when they stopped supporting him. The US is in the north-east, to hunt remnants of Islamic State and to protect its Kurdish allies. Turkey controls much of the north-west and has its own Arab-led militia.