It's Wednesday, December 11th, and liberating a nation takes more than just storming the gates.

We start here.

They want help.

They want help to get in.

As rebels take over Syria, civilians grapple with the atrocities of the old regime.

Tiny rooms behind huge metal doors and no light.

No one would know they were here.

Our team went inside the country's most notorious prison, the accounts are shocking.

He's a suspected killer trying to seize the mantle of hero.

And it's an insult, the intelligence of the American people.

Police are releasing new details while the suspect makes his own statements to the press.

And Generation Alpha, we hardly knew you.

They are gone as of December 31st, 2024.

A generational changeover is happening later this month, and you can call it by name.

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

I'm Brad Milky.

In the wake of a revolution.

In the wake of a revolution, there's this sense that anything can happen, which here in the safety of America, we often take as a positive, anything can happen.

But in Syria, right now, we mean literally anything can happen.

To that point, yesterday Israeli defense forces announced that they have destroyed Syria's navy in a missile strike.

Yeah. that they have destroyed Syria's navy in a missile strike. Not just like we hit one of their ships, they say they've destroyed Syria's entire fleet.

And keep in mind, it's not as if Syria really has a government capable of waging war right now.

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