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Like coming up for air after 50 years. That’s how one man described the current moment in Syria.
Since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, thousands of Syrians have been celebrating in the streets and wandering through Assad’s abandoned palace.
But many more are searching through the massive network of prisons that underpinned Assad’s repressive regime, hoping to find out the fate of lost loved ones.
Meanwhile, Syria’s new rulers, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, are grappling with how to seize control of the infrastructure that underpinned Assad’s massive state-run drug trade.
Today, journalist Heidi Pett, on the ground in Damascus, as the Syrian people reckon with what the future holds for their country.
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