SHOTLIST: DAMASCUS, SYRIA (AUGUST 21, 2025) (ANADOLU – ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF DRONE SHOTS OF SYRIANS FORMING CONVOYS IN UMAYYAD SQUARE, COVERING THEIR CARS WITH YELLOW FLAGS WHICH SYMBOLIZE POISONOUS GAS, SOME PLACING PHOTOGRAPHS OF VICTIMS ON THEIR WINDOWS FOR ANNIVERSARY OF ASSAD REGIME’S CHEMICAL ATTACKS DURING CIVIL WAR 2. VARIOUS OF DRONE SHOTS OF PROTESTERS PARKING THEIR CARS ON SIDE OF ROAD, HOLDING SYRIAN AND YELLOW FLAGS IN MEMORY OF ATTACK VICTIMSDAMASCUS, SYRIA - AUGUST 21: In Damascus, Syrians gathered on Thursday, August 21, to commemorate victims of chemical attacks carried out by the Assad regime during the civil war. Drone footage showed vehicles moving in convoy through the capital, draped in yellow fabric to symbolize toxic gas. At Ummayad Square, participants held banners describing the atrocity as the “massacre of the century” and carried photographs of the victims. The commemoration marked twelve years since the sarin gas attack on Eastern Ghouta on August 21, 2013, which killed more than 1,400 civilians and remains one of the deadliest chemical assaults in modern history. Residents of Eastern Ghouta endured a five-year siege before being forcibly displaced to northern Syria, with many only beginning to return after the Baath regime collapsed in December 2024. Under Syria’s transitional government led by President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the region has reopened to humanitarian missions and war crimes investigations. Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s leader for nearly 25 years, fled to Russia on Dec. 8, ending the Baath Party regime, which had ruled the country since 1963.