When she heard the stunning news that rebels had brought an end to Syria's decades-old regime, Hayat al-Turki headed for a prison that had become known as a slaughterhouse, praying that her brother and five more relatives held there were still alive.

ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent James Longman reports at Saydnaya prison, where Syrians are searching for their lost loved ones.

NBC News' Richard Engel reports from inside one of Syria's most notorious prisons, Saydnaya military prison nicknamed "the human slaughterhouse." Thousands of people in Syria have rushed to the country's prisons after the fall of the Assad regime searching for any trace of loved ones they feared had disappeared into their unseen depths.

Israel pounded Syrian army bases on Tuesday in strikes it says aim to keep weapons from falling into hostile hands, but denied its forces had advanced into Syria beyond a buffer zone at the border. In the Syrian capital,

An Israeli military incursion into southern Syria has reached about 25 km (16 miles) southwest of capital Damascus, two regional security sources and one Syrian security source said on Tuesday. The Syrian security source said Israeli troops reached Qatana,