The EU's envoy to Syria headed to Damascus Monday to hold talks with the country's new Islamist rulers, just over a week after president Bashar al-Assad's ouster ended decades of brutal rule and civil war. The move from Brussels came after the United States and Britain said they had made contact with the new authorities in the Syrian capital. For a deeper perspective on the harrowing plight of civilians in war-torn Syria, FRANCE 24's Eve Irvine welcomes Ahmed Bayram, Media & Communications Adviser at the Norwegian Refugee Council in the Middle East.
