For over a decade, the Syrian civil war was regarded as the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” leaving millions of Syrians in a relentless struggle for survival. But, on December 8, 2024, a sudden and rapid takeover by Islamic militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which remains designated a foreign terror organization by the US, ousted Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, once dubbed as the “butcher of Middle East,” who left his iron-fisted rule for Russia. Now, what welds this war-torn country is the Syrian people’s loud cry for unity and desperate need for hope, especially among hundreds of thousands of Syrian women, who for years withstood perpetual violence, loss, and displacement inside the country and beyond.