CLEVELAND, Ohio - Northeast Ohioans of Syrian descent have been responding in celebration to the news thousands of miles away that Syrian rebels stormed the capital city of Damascus and toppled Bashar al-Assad’s decades-long dictatorship.

Brookings Institution Research in Foreign Policy Program Director Michael O’Hanlon talked about the collapse of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria, what to expect from the rebel alliance now asserting control there,

Rebel leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani is vowing to pursue officials of the Assad regime. Correspondent and executive producer of PBS FRONTLINE's film 'The Jihadist' Martin Smith, who interviewed al-Johani,