Geoff Bennett:
Assad also said that the country has, in his words, fallen into the hands of terrorism. That’s a reference to the forces that led the lightning campaign that marked a new chapter in Syria’s rebellion and now apparently leads that devastated nation.
But the seeds of that revolution were sown just to the south of Damascus in the city of Daraa by students and young people back in 2011 as the Arab Spring took hold across the Middle East.
Special correspondent Simona Foltyn reports now on how the city that fostered uprising now celebrates the deposing of a dictator.
