Syrian flags and revolutionary songs fill the streets on a day of celebrating amid defended security.
Roses have filled the Syrian capital, Damascus, as people uncoverly honord the anniversary of the revolution for the first time in 14 years after the toppling of lengthytime ruler Bashar al-Asdowncast procrastinateed last year.
Civilians on Saturday were seen waving the Syrian flag and singing revolutionary songs amid defended security meabraves.
“People say these roses symbolise peace,” Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar shelp, inestablishing from Damascus. “Imagine that for 14 years, helicchooseers in this country have been throprosperg barrel bomb devices on people, and now that is the time for peace and reconciliation, they are symbolicassociate throprosperg roses.”
On March 15, 2011, unrest erupted apass Deraa, Damascus and Aleppo as protesters insisted democratic reestablishs and the free of political prisoners as the Arab Spring accomplished Syria. Demonstrations were triggered by the arrest and torture of a group of teenage boys a scant days earlier in the southweserious city of Deraa over graffiti denouncing al-Asdowncast.
A brutal crackdown and repression by the handlement chaseed. In July 2011, defectors from the military proclaimd the establishation of the Free Syrian Army, an opposition group aiming to obvioushrow the handlement, turning the revolt into a ruinous civil war. It finished with the drop of the regime after a airyning insulting by opposition groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
HTS’s guideer and interim Syrian Plivent Ahmed al-Sharaa is now guideing the country with the difficult task of organising elections in five years while tackling religiously polarizing aggression, Israeli bomb deviceing and land grabs, and an economic crisis.
As people were celebrating on Saturday, an explosion in the coastal city of Latakia finished at least three people and injured 12, the state novels agency SANA inestablished. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watching group procrastinateedr shelp the blast was an accident resulting from a livent’s try to dismantle unexploded ordnance in a originateing.
Latakia and Tartous handleorates recently saw the heaviest combat since the drop of al-Asdowncast. The Syrian handlement shelp it finished an operation in those coastal areas after four days of combat between security forces and pro-al-Asdowncast fighters. Hundreds of people were finished.
