Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to the territory held by the rebel alliance that ousted Bashar al-Assad. The alliance holds much of Syria’s northwest,

The first civilian domestic flight since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime landed in Aleppo on Wednesday, December 18, after departing from the Syrian capital of Damascus.Footage posted by the Syria Civil Defense shows the flight landing in Aleppo and the White Helmets being deployed “to secure” the airport.

Follow the latest on Syria In a crumbling police building in Syria's city of Hama, a young man wearing a face mask and baseball cap fires questions at a middle-aged man. “Name?” he asks. “Military number?