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  1. SDF commander Mazloum Abdi (L) shakes hands with interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on 10 March 2025

  2. Marco Rubio being interviewed on the plane

  3. Barred gateway to the centre that has metal mesh between the gaps of the bars, barbed wire above it. On each gate there is a red octagonal stop sign.

  4. BBC Beirut correspondent Carine Torbey speaks to the camera in a room with displaced Alawites

  5. Internally displaced Palestinians hold out bowls to receive Ramadan meals from a charity kitchen in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza strip

  6. syria security forces in Qardaha

  7. A Ukrainian soldier covers his ears as a howitzer fires in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine

  8. Syrian security forces patrol a street in Jableh, Latakia province, Syria (9 March 2025)

  9. Image from Friday shows thick black smoke rising in the distance as Syrian forces riding in a pickup truck drive towards it on an empty road

  10. Palestinians walk past the rubble of destroyed houses, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip

  11. Female mourners at a funeral in Latakia, dressed in grey and black and some with headscarves, cry and comfort each other

  12. Four men in uniform stand on top of military vehicle fixing a long range gun, large residential buildings in the background

  13. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during a meeting with members of Iran's Basij militia in Tehran, Iran

  14. Destroyed buildings in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, 6 March 2025

  15. Michal Ohana looks at the camera in front of tributes to the 7 October attacks. She has long brown hair and thin-rimmed glasses.

  16. Picture of Thomas Gabriel Perera wearing a yellow and gray shirt

  17. Two Syrian security force soldiers sit on top of a pick up truck armed with a twin-barrelled heavy machine gun. Both men have masks on their faces and are dressed in full military fighting equipment and camoflage uniforms.

  18. Michal Ohana, with long dark hair, large glasses and wearing pink lipstick, stands in front of a memorial to those who died in the 7 October attack on the Nova festival, with photos of the people killed, Israeli flags, flowers and other mementoes.

  19. Syrian forces ride on military vehicles as they head to Latakia, after fighters linked to Syria's ousted leader Bashar al-Assad mounted a deadly attack on government forces on Thursday,

  20. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky walks in Brussels after a crisis EU summit. Photo: 6 March 2025

  21. Split screen of a man and an AI generated image of a Trump Gaza hotel

  22. A group of people walking down a pathway in Darfur, some carrying items on their head or in their hands. A group of people sit on several different carts, led by donkeys, with items piled on the cart.

  23. Donald Trump wearing a blue suit talking

  24. Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani wears a dark suit and addresses a meeting of the Executive Committee of the OPCW in The Hague on 5 March 2025. There are three men with grey hair and glasses and wearing suits seated behind him and a woman seated in the background.