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Podcast: Honestly with Bari Weiss
Episode: They Tortured Him for Years. Now They Rule Syria.
Description: Last week marked a historic turning point in Syria. Rebel forces seized control of the nation, toppling the regime of Bashar al-Assad and ending his family’s brutal 50-year stranglehold on power.For decades, the Assad dynasty ruled through unimaginable violence—launching chemical attacks on civilians, silencing dissent with mass imprisonment and torture, and presiding over a civil war that killed an estimated 600,000 people and drove 13 million into exile.In cities across the world, jubilant Syrians have celebrated the regime’s downfall, having deemed it to be one of the wo...