Syria sees improvement in press freedoms amid worldwide decline

The Syrian situation is infinitely more complicated than most people think. The current government has brought some normalcy and stability to the country. However at the end of Assad's reign they had to just allow many former Assad regime people to keep their posts as the HTS had ruled Idlib around one city, so they simply had not enough men of their owm to govern all of Syria reliably. Then Assadists start massacres and the likes in Latakia of the Alawite region trying to cause trouble for the new government having hidden there during the Assad collapse. The new government having not had time to build a proper nation wide army had to deplpy more unreliable forces to put down this possible revolt by former regime loyalists with the unfortunate violence and massacres that followed in reprisal, because the Assad regime had been so brutal, plus historic tribal grievances as well. The government proceeded to restore proper order in the area and put a stop to the bloodshed after it was no longer handling having to restore order to much bigger cities. It's a patrern common in civil wars, and frankly compared to other civil wars emds the Latakia massacres were very limited. In China the communists killed up to hundred thosuand civilians in Changchun alone. In Congo the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide saw hundreds of thosyands of hutu refugees massacred by the advancing Rwandan Tutsi forces. It doesn't excuse the Latakia masscres, but the government couldn't afford for Assad loyalists to say seize Latakia and respark the civil war again, which probably would've been worse. Also there is the Druzhe area of Suwaida which was protected from government forces by the Israelis. It has now devolved to a drug cartel area where former Assad regime people are running the Captagon drug trade, while just a few days ago Jordan bombed the region to hit these drug operations. In the northeast we saw also the collapse of the Rojava government which lost much of its legitimacy after the HTS proved itself to be a viable government, and in addition Arab tribes under the Rojava rebelled against it now that an anti Assad Arab regime was in charge. In addition to this, the new governmwnt has engaged in lots of negotiations with the Kurds to reintegrate them into the central state. Syria is a lot more messy and complucated than one massacre tells. Same as how El-Fasher, Rwanda, Katyn Forest, Auschwitz or the sack of Rome by the Spanish didn't happen in some isolated vaccuum.