One month has passed since Bashar al-Assad’s regime was overthrown, and thousands of Syrians have taken to the streets of the capital, Damascus, to celebrate the uprising, Al Jazeera reported.
Thousands of returning Syrians and locals gathered at a basketball center in the heart of Damascus for a festive concert to celebrate one month of relative stability, following nearly 14 years of civil war and unrest.
“Outside this stadium, you actually have a large poster of al-Assad, but now you can just see his hair and forehead. The rest of it has been ripped away as his regime, his army, and the whole apparatus… were ripped away exactly one month ago,” Al Jazeera’s diplomatic editor James Bays said.
According to Bays, proceeds from the concerts will go to various NGOs operating across Syria, including the White Helmets, the civil defense force that rescued people from the rubble following a Syrian bombardment of its own people during Assad’s rule.