It's been a week since Syrian rebels overtook the country's capital and forced out the longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad.

This has been a long time coming.

Syria has been mired on civil war for 13 years.

The fighting has killed 600,000 people, it displaced millions, and now hopefully it's over.

But a lot is happening very quickly.

You may have heard a clip that's been going around of a CNN crew touring one of the

country's infamous secret prisons.

Syrians lived in fear of these places for decades.

Just during the war, about 100,000 people were locked up in them, and most of them never

came out.

Rebels have mostly

freed the survivors. So when that CNN crew went into one of those prisons on Wednesday,

they expected to find it empty. But instead, the reporter and her team found a man hiding under

a blanket. Said had been there for days. Hadn't realized the government had even fallen. So the

CNN crew picked him up, gave him some water,

and they walked him outside into a liberated Syria.

Here he is.

My God, the light, he says.

Oh, God, there is light.

My God, there is light.

This seems to be sort of the mood in Syria right now.

It's a moment of hope and relief, but also of uncertainty and change, because pretty much

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