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  1. A rebel fighter stands next to a sign saying "Welcome to Hama" on the Damascus-Aleppo highway, Syria (3 December 2024)

  2. Annotated BBC Verify map showing the location of a verified Syria video.

  3. Nadia Murad

  4. A soldier in uniform stands amidst rubble in the Gaza Strip, his back turned to the camera.

  5. Mandy Damari holds up a photo of her daughter Emily Damari, who is being held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, during a visit to the UK (3 December 2024)

  6. Two little girls in coats hold hands as they walk along a street filled with rubble with a group of women who are wearing hijabs

  7. Abdulkafi stands in front of the Aleppo Citadel, in the heart of the Syrian city. He is wearing black and folding his arms.

  8. A rear view of a group of four Israeli soldiers in camouflage patroling a fence near the Lebanese border

  9. Four women are gathered around a table all looking down at glass headband resting on the table on a white cloth. They at Uganda Museum in June 2024. Three of the women, all wearing green plastic gloves, are pointing at or moving the headband. The fourth stands slightly behind them, scrutinising their movements

  10. Salwa Abu Nimer with one of her child in Khan Younis

  11. A large placard of Toomaj Salehi's face and the words 'free Toomaj' is held up at a protest. He is a young man with a beard, and the photo is in black and white. Two protestors stand either side of the placard.

  12. Rihab Faour at a temporary home in Beirut. ‘I have to find something to fill my days,’ she said.

  13. Rebel forces drive down a highway in Syria

  14. Trucks carrying humanitarian aid destined for the Gaza Strip queue at the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Israel.

  15. Anti government groups drive a convoy near eastern Aleppo

  16. Statue being toppled in Aleppo, Syria

  17. An injured child is transported to a hospital following a strike by the Syrian regime airforce, that targeted a neighbourhood in Syria's rebel-held northern city of Idlib

  18. Tarig Sinada and Jenny Cawson

  19. The wreckage of a car seen following an Israeli strike in southern Gaza. The car is white but partially burned-out. It's roof is caved in, it is missing its windows, and its tyres are flat.

  20. Nasrallah memorial

  21. A car with weapons and two men on a motorbike ride

  22. Qassem Abu Khalaf and his wife Malak Hijaz with a range of their perfumes on a wooden table.

  23. A woman and a child sit in a vehicle as they return in Tyre, Lebanon, after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah (27/11/24)

  24. boy looks out over Tyre destruction