Crowds of Syrians passed through the gates today at Saydnaya prison, known as the “human slaughterhouse,” where thousands of people were said to be detained and tortured by the Assad regime. Some were hoping to find information about detained and missing relatives.

The Syrian Parliament has pledged resources to the country's new administration following the fall of the Assad regime.

Parliament added in a statement that the will of the Syrian people "stands above all else," and that it will "support the people’s desire to build a new Syria with a bright future where the law and justice prevail for all, without discrimination."

"We dedicate our resources to serve our great people as they strive to build a prosperous future, committed to their free will as they move toward a better tomorrow, led by those who liberated them toward a rising Syria," the statement read.

It was unclear how the Syrian Parliament was working with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other groups that led the assault against former President Bashar al-Assad.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is urging Syria's new regime to fulfill obligations not completed by Bashar al-Assad during his presidency.

Syria entered the Chemical Weapons Convention in 2013 under the Assad regime, barring the administration from developing, producing, acquiring, stockpiling, retaining, transferring or using chemical weapons, according to the organization. Syria is also required to disclose its chemical weapons and related facilities to the watchdog group.

For the past 11 years, the organization says, "use of toxic chemicals as weapons has been documented and investigated by the OPCW Technical Secretariat, as well as other independent international investigative bodies."

The Secretariat reached out to Syria to remind it of its obligation as a party to the Chemical Weapons Convention and is "closely monitoring the situation," it said.

For much of its 13 years, the horrors of Syria’s grinding civil war felt unending. Now, after just 11 days, the regime of President Bashar al-Assad is gone.

However, this is far from a quick, simple fix. The rebels who toppled Assad are led by a group that the United States and others regard as a terrorist organization. And they reclaim a Syria deeply scarred by more than a decade of war — with no clear path to what happens next or how it might be governed.

“There is undoubtedly justified optimism in Syria today,” one analyst told NBC News. “What is simultaneously true is that Syria remains fragile and faces an uncertain future.”

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After Syrian rebels took control of Damascus and forced out President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Israel carried out strikes and launched a ground incursion into Syria in what the Israeli government says is a temporary measure to prevent chemical and biological weapons from getting into the wrong hands.

Israel seized a buffer zone in the Golan Heights established by a 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria.

Teams continue to investigate allegations of a secret compartment in Sednaya Military Prison this morning, after armed groups opposing Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime took control in Damascus.

A curfew will start at 5 p.m. local time and last until 5 a.m. as Syrian rebels work to strengthen their control over the country, the Syrian Ministry of Information said today.

The Syrian Ministry of Information has not specified how long the 12-hour curfew will remain in effect.

It will apply to the capital, Damascus, and its surrounding areas, as well as the cities of Latakia and Tartus in western Syria. Emergency services, including doctors, ambulance teams, fire services, and internal security forces, are exempt from the curfew.

Those who violate the curfew will face a one-month prison sentence, the Ministry of Information's added in the statement.

Syria's ambassador to Russia, Bashar Jaafari, told Russian state media RT that Assad’s escape was “shameful and humiliating.”

Maya Manna, head of RT Arabic, posted on Telegram that Jaafari described Assad's government as a “corrupt system” which failed “in a matter of days,” highlighting the “unpopularity and lack of support” of the regime within both the Syrian military and society at large.

The Syrian ambassador to Russia added the “shameful and humiliating escape of the head of this system” reflects a lack of “national responsibility to the country” and “confirms the need for the changes that have taken place,” according to Manna's Telegram channel.

There is "hope for a better future" in the country, the Syrian ambassador to Russia added, according to the social media post.

Powerful images have emerged showing people, including women and children, being freed from prisons across the country after the toppling of Assad, whose brutal regime saw hundreds of thousands of political prisoners disappear into jails where many faced torture and death.

And while Assad was in Moscow having fled the country, one facility known as the “human slaughterhouse” was being searched for signs of secret underground cells.

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