<span lang="EN-GB">For Waad Al-Kateab, the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in Syria in December 2024 felt almost unreal. “I thought the ending of my story was dying in exile,” she told </span><em><span lang="EN-GB">UN News</span></em><span lang="EN-GB">. “And it just happened out of the blue.”</span>
