Newshour, Newshour, Five months after Assad, where is Syria heading?

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Newshour

Five months after Assad, where is Syria heading?

May 5, 2025

48 minutes

Available for 6 days

Five months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, we ask can Syria overcome its immense problems under its new Islamist rulers? Also in the programme: Europe commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender in 1945; and the end of the road for Skype.

Photo: A torn poster of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus suburb. Credit: Reuters.