The leader of Syria's HTS rebel group has promised to disband the armed factions that toppled Bashar al Assad and unite them under the authority of the defence ministry.
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But what will that new army look like?
Our team went beyond Damascus with some of the rebel fighters as they ventured inside captured government military buildings - seizing supplies of weapons from the sites where so many Syrians were tortured and killed.
There are distressing images in this report.
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