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  1. 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

  2. René Shevan smiles as he poses for a photo

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

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

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

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

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

  8. 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

  9. a gun on a chair at an abandoned apartment

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

  11. 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.

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

  13. 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

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

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

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

  17. Sharaa

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

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

  20. 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.

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

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

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

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