2024-12-09
8 分钟Plus, the end of the Eras Tour.
From the new York Times, it's the headlines.
I'm Megan speicha.
Today's Monday, December 9th.
Here's what we're covering.
We're here in a massive,
massive traffic jam as thousands of Syrians who fled the country during the civil war are now making their way back
to Syria for the first time for some in more than a decade.
My colleague Christina Goldbaum has been reporting from near the SyriaLebanon border
on the stunning downfall of the Syrian regime.
In a lightning fast offensive,
rebel groups overtook the capital city of Damascus yesterday and they forced President Bashar al Assad,
whose family had long ruled Syria with an iron fist, to flee the country.
We're seeing people cheering and honking their car horns.
A lot of people are blasting songs that were cheering on the fall of Bashar al Assad.
You know, others are either on top of their cars or hanging out of car windows,
waving flags of the Syrian opposition or holding their fingers up in a V signifying victory.
Footage from inside Damascus showed families wandering through the abandoned presidential palace,
taking artwork and chairs and posing for selfies.
It's a remarkable turn in a brutal civil war that was sparked by the Arab Spring in 2011.
More than 500,000 people have been killed in the conflict and millions more were forced from their homes.