‘We are experiencing a taste of freedom’: Syrians react to President Bashar al-Assad’s downfall

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has fled the country and, for the first time in two decades, Syrians say they are experiencing a taste of freedom. Assad brutally repressed a popular uprising, which started in 2011. His forces killed, tortured and imprisoned those who spoke out against the government. During the 13-year war, Assad used chemical weapons on his own people and besieged and starved people living in areas under opposition control. The World’s Shirin Jaafari has been speaking with Syrians about what his departure means to them.