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as posted by the channelThe end came pretty fast - after 14 years of civil war, the Syrian rebels of HTS and their allies deposed the hated dictator Assad after a lightning campaign. For five decades, the Assad family ruled Syria with the iron fist of dictatorship. Torture, random executions, a brutal secret service. Millions fled, and nearly half of Syrians had to find refuge elsewhere. Ahmed el-Scharra is the face of the victory. A former al-Qaida terrorist turned celebrated liberator. Can he unify a country that has been a pawn of the region's power players like Turkey, Iran, or even Russia, for decades? We are asking: After Assad's downfall: can Syria be reborn?
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Kristin Helberg, a journalist and expert on Syria and the Middle East
Maissun Melhem, my DW colleague, journalist from Syria
Ali Fathollah-Nejad, a German-Iranian political scientist, and Director of the Center for Middle East and Global Order
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