Can Syria keep away from some other slide into autocracy? : Imagine This from NPR

A torn portrait of Bashir al-Assad, that looks to were organized, is noticed within the Presidential Palace on December 10, 2024 in Damascus, Syria. Portions of the palace had been ransacked in contemporary days as revolt forces in Syria seized the capital from longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, who fled the rustic to Russia. (Photograph by means of Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Pictures)

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The brutal regime of Bashar al Assad fell over the weekend with dizzying velocity. Syrians inside the nation and all over the world burst into birthday celebration. Now, the revolt workforce Hay’at Tahrir al Sham, or HTS has to control. They’re designated a 15 may organization by means of the USA.And a few concern that HTS may just slide into it is personal more or less autocratic regime.That concern isn’t unfounded. Around the Heart East and North Africa, many revolutions have overthrown autocrats, just for the ones nations to descend again into chaos or a extra oppressive rule.The Syrian revolution started amid a wave of uprisings within the area that ended in new, undemocratic regimes. Can Syria keep away from a equivalent destiny nowadays? For sponsor-free episodes of Imagine This, join Imagine This+ by means of Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.Electronic mail us at considerthis@npr.org.

This episode was once produced by means of Marc Rivers and Michael Levitt, with further reporting from Rob Schmitz and Juana Summers.

It was once edited by means of Courtney Dorning and Justine Kenin.

Our government manufacturer is Sami Yenigun.