Tartus, Syria, Dec 19, 2024 (AFP) - Defeat of Syria's Assad stirs a mother's bitterness

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2024-12-19

In the villages above the Syrian port city of Tartus they once hailed the sons who died fighting in Bashar al-Assad's service as martyrs. But mothers are now nervous to display their sons' pictures, and no longer hide their bitterness towards the ousted leader for whom they sacrificed so much. "It's true my son is dead," said Jamila Jabr, the 60-year-old mother of Humam, an army conscript who was killed in combat in 2012. "But the important thing......

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