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  1. Mohamed al-Bashir, who heads HTS's so-called "Salvation Government", holds a press conference in the rebel-held northwestern Syrian city of Idlib on 28 November 2024

  2. A man holds a Syrian flag in a car in Germany as he celebrates the downfall of Bashar al-Assad in his home country

  3. Intisar, Dima and Najah Al-Abassi

  4. Rebel fighters stand next to the burning gravesite of Syria's late president Hafez al-Assad at his mausoleum

  5. Close up side view of the face of Samira, a Syrian mother. She is wearing a black veil and only her eyes are visiblees are

  6. A group of three US soldiers wearing camouflage and carrying rifles patrolling in a field near the Turkish border in Syria

  7. A burnt boat sits in the water with a fire burning close to it at the port city of Latakia on 10 December

  8. Netanyahu stands in a courtroom wearing a black suit jacket, a white shirt and a blue tie. Behind him the room is crowded, with several people holding their phones aloft to take photos of him.

  9. A group of women walks down a path between dozens of tents.

  10. A man looks into the camera in close-up. He is in a home, we can see some pictures hanging on the wall behind him and a set of curtains. He has very short cropped hair and a moustache.

  11. A Syrian woman holding a child waits on the Turkish border in a crowd of refugees

  12. A man transports a body at a hospital in Damascus, after rebels said they had found around 40 showing signs of torture at Harasta hospital (10 December 2024)

  13. People gathering outside Saydnaya Prison, which is a big white building.

  14. A man with dark, short hair looking into the camera with a small smile. He's sitting on a grey sofa and wearing a black and white checked hoodie.

  15. Smoke rising on the horizon of a street in Damascus, Syria. Cars are driving down the road. It is day time with a blue sky.

  16. Syrians gather at Umayyad Square to celebrate the collapse of 61 years of Baath Party rule with songs and convoys of cars in Damascus, Syria on 9 December 2024

  17. A man in a baseball cap walks past a window at night. He's silhouetted against the building and the soft white light coming from the window.

  18. A woman in the passenger seat of a car welcomes the news that Assad has been overthrown

  19. Two girls smiling, girl on left is wearing a pink headscarf, black leather jacket and cream hoody, girl on right (Renad) is wearing a black headscarf and dark green jacket, both girls have syrian flags painted on their faces, group celebrating in the background

  20. A woman stands in front of a bakery counter with an assortment of cakes and pastries. She wears a white hijab, brown glasses, a grey and white striped jumper and a brown apron with the word "Helmi's" on it.

  21. Crowds gathering outside Saydnaya military prison hoping for information about family members

  22. Lina Sinjab, a Syrian BBC journalist with brown hair and with thick-rimmed dark blue circular glasses, wearing a press helmet, having returned to Damascus after the fall of the Assad regime in 2024

  23. File photo showing Bashar al-Assad speaking to the Syrian parliament (12 August 2020)

  24. A CGI image of molecules arranged in hexagonal lattice structure to demonstrate the properties of graphene.