Dictator out: The winners and losers in post-Assad Syria

The Assad family dictatorship which has run Syria for 53 years and has withstood 13 years of bitter civil war, has now collapsed in just over a week. A sweeping series of Islamic rebel attacks starting in late November, captured key cities from Aleppo in the north to Homs and Hama which fell like dominos creating an unstoppable military momentum on the road to Damascus.
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