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The Arab Spring and Syria
The story of the first protests against the Assad regime in 2011 - and the brutal government response, which led to Syria's bitter civil war.
In the early months of 2011 demonstrators took to the streets across the Arab world. We go back to some of the first protests to take place in Syria. The roots of the country's bitter civil war lie in the government crackdowns that followed. Hear from one Syrian who was there.
(Photo: Anti-government activists on the streets of Daraa in Syria in March 2011. Credit: Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images)
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