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22122024 Thaer Alabeid holds Humayd Surati as Murad Alibrahim waves a Free Syria flag during an event hosted by Brandon’s Syrian Community at the Westman Immigrant Services Multicultural Centre in Brandon to celebrate the recent fall of the dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The fall of the regime after decades of brutal rule is a moment of hope for Syrian’s around the world. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)