"We're in a dream, we're living a dream now!" says a smiling Bassem Salloum, a journalist, who like hundreds of other Syrians in France, has come to the Place de la République in Paris to express his joy following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime. Paris appealed to Syrians for "unity and reconciliation, and to reject all forms of extremism", foreign affairs minister spokesman Christophe Lemoine said in a statement. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES