Home or exile? Syrian journalists grapple with new realities post-Assad - Committee to Protect Journalists

Home or exile? Syrian journalists grapple with new realities post-Assad - Committee to Protect Journalists

Berlin, July 3, 2025—After almost 14 years of civil war, the lightning overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in December has unleashed the possibility of returning home for hundreds of exiled journalists. For Ahmad Primo, who was arrested by the government for reporting that the 2011 protests were a revolution and then jailed by Islamic State, the idea was tantalizing. “If I were single, I would go back and join those fighting for the f…