Aleppo in opposition hands
The rebels continue to advance – is this the beginning of the end for Assad?
While Islamist fighters celebrate the liberation of Aleppo, Syria’s ruler Assad is preparing a counteroffensive. But his regime is weaker than it has been for years.
Everything was ready for the great escape to Europe. Omar Dadis had sold his belongings to make money. He had found a contact who was looking after a residence permit in Turkey, and asked about smugglers in Istanbul who would take him across the sea to Greece, from there to Eastern Europe, and finally to Germany.
Omar Dadis from Sarmada in the Syrian province of Idlib, 34 years old with three children, wanted what he calls a “second chance to live.” Now he gets it, unexpectedly and not in the West. But in his old home – in Aleppo. “It feels so unreal,” he tells the star on the phone. “I’ll be coming home for the first time since 2016.”
Source: Stern
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