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  1. Armed fighters of Syria's new rebel-led government. Photo: December 2024

  2. The damaged exterior of an air traffic control tower

  3. Tedros

  4. The six hostages (clockwise left to right): Alex Lobanov, Eden Yerushalmi, Almog Sarusi, Master Sgt Ori Danino, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat

  5. Reverend Munther Isaac lights a candle near a pile of rubble with baby Jesus figure lying on top inside the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethleham

  6. men in damascus carrying crosses during protest

  7. A blue Russian ship lists to starboard in the Mediterranean

  8. Police in riot gear guard a Dutch bus in Amsterdam

  9. Ismail Haniyeh speaking into a microphone with the Palestinian flag in the background.

  10. Bashar al-Assad, left, smiles and waves wearing a dark suit. His wife Asma al-Assad smiles more widely beside him, and wears a grey striped jacket.

  11. A pre-teen boy stands amongst grey rubble and burned out cars, squinting up towards the camera

  12. Men carry the coffin of a Hezbollah member who was killed in a pager blast (18/09/24)

  13. Feras Killani, in glasses and a t-shirt and jeans, with dust on his arm, poiints down a damaged street towards a group of people

  14. René Shevan smiles as he poses for a photo

  15. Mohamed standing in the street wearing a blue jacket. He is wearing glasses and has dark hair and short beard.

  16. Wajiha al-Hajjar, at a celebration marking the fall of Bashar al-Assad, in the southern Syrian city of Suweida

  17. A US Navy Boeing F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet coming in to land

  18. Treated black and white main image showing Syrian rebel fighters inspect sacks

  19. A displaced Palestinian woman, Makram Hamdouna, carries a water container outside her shelter, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip December 19, 2024.

  20. A man in a khaki uniform stands in a playground in front of a block of flats, looking down at a crater in the ground

  21. a gun on a chair at an abandoned apartment

  22. People DJ, dance and take video in a crowd at a Syrian electronic music concert

  23. The leader of Syria's Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group that headed a lightning rebel offensive snatching Damascus from government control, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani.

  24. Men sat in a line in a Syrian prison cell