Najem al-Moussa was delighted when news of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's overthrow first beamed from the television in his tiny Athens apartment.

Assad's brutal rule in Syria as a moment of hope -– but they also view his sudden toppling as fraught with dangers.

For Europe, the risks of inaction and complacency far outweigh any fleeting sense of relief at al-Assad’s demise, Shlomo Roiter Jesner writes.View on euronews

While governments urge caution, calls are rising across Europe for Syrians who fled the Assad regime to return.

STORY: Najem al-Moussa and his family have been glued to the news of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's overthrow in their tiny Athens apartment.Although delighted he is gone, Moussa now fears his family will be forced to return to the devastated country they fled in 2015.

Syria has produced the largest number of migrants in Europe, the eighth annul report on asylum rights by the Catholic Migrantes Foundation said Wednesday. "Unfortunately, the Syrian situation has recently returned to the forefront,

After over a decade of conflict, the Syrian Civil War seems to be over. In a handful of days, the forces of Bashar al-Assad have collapsed and he has fled to Moscow. Across Britain and Europe, many in the Syrian diaspora have celebrated in our streets.