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WEDNESDAY • 11 DECEMBER 2024 • ISSUE 920 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
KARL
AZZOPARDI
kazzopardi@mediatoday.com.mt
MATTHEW
FARRUGIA
mfarrugia@mediatoday.com.mt
Victim's
identity
in Gzira
murder still
unknown
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SYRIA: A NEW ERA
As regime comes crashing down
Syrians detail hope for new
chapter in country's history
FOR half a century, the Assad family
ruled over Syria with an iron fist, but it
only took a week for the regime to come
crashing down.
Many in the country are hopeful for
Syria's next chapter. But the rebels
who stormed into Damascus have a
complicated past and offer an unpre-
dictable future.
MaltaToday spoke to Syrian refu-
gee Ahmed who lives in Malta, and
Ghassan Rababah who is currently in
Damascus, to try an understand what
faith awaits the middle-eastern coun-
try and its people.
On Sunday, after 13 years of civil war
that fractured the country, the regime
was toppled. Rebel fighters declared
Damascus "liberated" in a video state-
ment on state television, sending Syr-
ian President Bashar al-Assad fleeing
to Russia.
THE identity of Malta's fifth homicide vic-
tim this year is still unknown, as investigators
scramble to determine the facts on this grue-
some murder.
Sources who spoke with MaltaToday have
confirmed that the victim is a man with dis-
tinctive tattoos.
Photo: James Bianchi/MaltaToday