Who is President Bashar al-Assad? Rebels opposed to President Bashar al-Assad roamed the streets of Syria's Aleppo on Friday night (November 29), saying they have liberated it from al-Assad's hold.

Hama is one of the few major Syrian cities where rebels had yet to seize significant control during the civil war, which began with a popular uprising aimed at ousting Mr. al-Assad in 2011.

Bullet casings littered the mausoleum floor as fighters and civilians fired guns into the air, chanted slogans and stomped on Hafez al-Assad's torched memorial as winds blew ashes about.