"We cried with happiness. Finally, we have been freed after a long period of oppression" says a resident of Syria's port city of Latakia as she celebrates in the street after the fall of president Bashar al-Assad, outsed by an Islamist-led opposition alliance. Syria's 14-year civil war killed 500,000 people and forced half the country to flee their homes.
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00:00Sound of the horn
00:03Sound of the horns
00:06Sound of the horns
00:09Sound of the horns
00:12Sound of the horns
00:15Sound of the horns
00:19I am very happy that my dream came true and finally I fell in the lion's lion
00:22I am very happy and I can cry because of the happiness
00:25Thank God, the dream came true and I finally celebrated
00:27Yes, a lot, a lot, a lot.
00:47We live here among the gangs and militias of Al-Assad's house,
00:50which is part of the city of Ladiyeh.
00:52It's not far from our shops and our workplace.
00:57200 meters or 300 meters from us is the office of Jameel Al-Assad
01:02and Hafez Al-Assad, which is the first exporter of kabtak.
01:07Al-Assad's house
01:22We started hearing strange noises last night.
01:25We couldn't sleep at night.
01:27Every time we heard noises, we asked, but we didn't know what they were.
01:31There was no electricity.
01:33We heard that the Israeli air force was bombing the port.
02:03Al-Assad's house