Those released range from the tiny toddler to Raghid al-Tatari, a pilot jailed in 1981 for refusing Hafez Al-Assad’s orders ...
Hafez and his son Bashar killed countless people over five decades and oversaw the country’s descent into kleptocracy.
Assad, who has not spoken in public since the lightning rebel advance, has fled Damascus, reportedly to Moscow ...
Syrians poured into streets echoing with celebratory gunfire after a stunning rebel advance reached the capital.
Russia was a key ally of Assad's regime - the former president and his family will now reportedly get asylum there.