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

  2. 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.

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

  4. Craig Ballentine pictured in a camel coloured hooded top with his friend Sean who is wearing a dark top and jacket at the airport. They are smiling at the camera

  5. Two inmates sit on the ground against a wall both dressed in brown clothes

  6. A montage of Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani pictured behind fighters in a military vehicle with weapons

  7. Ahmed al-Sharaa and Lea Kheirallah in Mezzeh, a suburb of Damascus, on 10 December 2024

  8. Sharaa

  9. Firefighters extinguish a fire at a power station following Israeli air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen (19 December 2024)

  10. Palestinians inspect the rubble of destroyed buildings following Israeli airstrikes on Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza (07/12/24)

  11. A composite image showing Nasim wearing a baseball cap, with Evin prison in the background. Nasim is wearing make-up and her hair can be seen. The sign on the prison reads Evin House of Detention. The image has been treated so that it has a greyish hue.

  12. Ahmed al-Sharaa, wearing a black suit, walking with the BBC's Jeremy Bowen

  13. Ahmed al-Sharaa during a BBC interview in Damascus on18 December 2024

  14. Planes at Russian Hmeimim air base in Syria, captured by Maxar Technologies

  15. Geir Pedersen speaks to the BBC's Jeremy Bowen in Damascus, Syria

  16. Two groups of people ride along a street on motorbikes in Idlib on 16 December

  17. Pope Francis attending a prayer service in Mosul's Old City during a visit to Iraq in March 2021. He is smiling and waving

  18. White Helmets rescuers recover human remains from a mass grave near Baghdad Bridge, near Adra, north-west of Damascus. Photo: 17 December 2024

  19. Men and children stand next to a destroyed car amidst debris and rubble by a collapsed building at the site of Israeli bombardment on a residential block in Jalaa Street in Gaza City on January 14, 2025

  20. Two women walk past a mural displaying words Bring Them Home Now in Tel Aviv

  21. Baraa sits wearing a beige headscare inside a room

  22. Damascus, 16 December

  23. Photo of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi wearing sunglasses and blue shirt on a poster held by man with a mustache

  24. A bullet-riddled poster of toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is pictured in Aleppo on 12 December 2024