Two men in a car hold up a Syrian flag with the rebels' colours at a rally at the Billings Bridge Shopping Centre in Ottawa on Dec. 8, 2024.
Dozens of people cheered, waved flags and honked car horns at the Billings Bridge Shopping Centre on Sunday afternoon in the wake of the news that Syrian rebel forces had toppled the regime of Bashar al-Assad.Two men in a car hold up a Syrian flag with the rebels' colours at a rally at the Billings Bridge Shopping Centre on Sunday.
"We lost hope and thought they were dead… but after seven years, they're now free," said Mustafa, adding that her cousins are sick but are also finally home. He said the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in the northwest led the offensive, which also involved the Syrian Democratic Forces in the northeast and the Syrian National Army, a group "knowingly controlled by Turkey.""When we see images of prisoners being liberated from these torture dungeons, that is a good thing," he said.
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