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to know for Tuesday, December 10th. A Syrian rebel-linked government leader has been appointed as the country's caretaker

prime minister for the next three months. Muhammad al-Bashir announced that he'll be overseeing

the transition to a new government in a televised address. The news comes as the families of

Syrians who have gone missing

during the Civil War have been desperately trying to find out what's happened to their loved

ones. Syria's infamous Sednaya military prison was dubbed a human slaughterhouse by human rights advocates

and has swallowed tens of thousands of prisoners. CNN has gone inside,

where people were digging for alleged hidden prison cells. But since then, a group set up with

the prison survivors, victims and their families has said these cells don't exist,

and that all the detainees were released a couple of days ago.

CNN's Clarissa Ward says there is chaos and confusion on the ground, as people try to work out what is and isn't real.

I spoke to one woman who was looking for her brother, a man called Abdul Khalik, and she said,

all we want to know is if he is alive or not.

That's all we want to know. if he is alive or not. That's all we want to know.

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