Inside a stunning week across Syria following the overthrow of the Assad regime - FIRST PERSON: Bel Trew spent days travelling across Syria – from Aleppo in the north, to the capital Damascus and Deraa in the south – charting a nation coming to terms with the ends of decades of brutal rule by the Assads.

Former Assad regime soldiers are handing over their weapons to the new government.

In Latakia, a city in southern Syria, former officials of Bashar al-Assad's regime are surrendering their weapons to the transitional government led by rebel forces. Similar disarmament initiatives are underway in other cities across the country,