A year after the liberation of Aleppo, thousands of Syrians rally for unity

“This isn’t a photo from 2011 — it’s today.” Online, images from Syrian cities poured in on Friday, early in the afternoon. One year to the day after Aleppo’s liberation, thousands of Syrians paraded through Damascus’s old city, at Clock Square in Homs, and in a dozen other cities. The message was clear: The new Syria, freed from Assad’s yoke, is one and indivisible. “Hold your head high, you’re a free Syrian,” was one of the chants heard in Saadallah Jabri Square in Aleppo.In Hama, Tartous, Masyaf, Nubul-Zahra, Banias, Kafr Zita and elsewhere, the first anniversary of Operation “Dissuasive Deterrence,” launched by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham on Nov. 27, 2024, which led to the dictatorship’s downfall eleven days later, is being celebrated. Israeli violence in Syria Israel kills 13 people in dawn incursion into southern Syria With it,...