61-year-old Baath regime in Syria has collapsed

DAMASCUS, SYRIA - DECEMBER 08: A general view of the empty Presidential Palace after sixty-one years of Baath Party rule in Syria collapses on Sunday when, the capital fell out of the hands of regime control in Damascus, Syria on December 08, 2024. Syria's popular movement which began on March 15, 2011 when a group of students wrote on a wall, 'Hey Doctor (Bashar al-Assad), now it's your turn' has now culminated in the end of the country's Baath Party rule after 61 years, when anti-regime forces captured the capital Damascus on Sunday. (Photo by Abdulkerim Muhammed/Anadolu via Getty Images)