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

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

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

  4. 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

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

  6. Baraa sits wearing a beige headscare inside a room

  7. Damascus, 16 December

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

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

  10. A woman walks after the morality police shutdown in a street in Tehran, Iran

  11. HBS commander

  12. Saydnaya prison pictured from the outside.

  13. Palestinians inspect damage following an Israeli air strike on a school housing displaced families in Khan Younis, southern Gaza (16 December 2024)

  14. Jo Cox MP

  15. A smiling man in a black hoodie sits on an office chair with a map of the World behind him.

  16. Israeli military vehicles cross the fence as they return from the buffer zone with Syria, near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights on December 10, 2024

  17. Jawdat al-Tawil

  18. Foreign Secretary David Lammy

  19. Erlich is standing in between the blue and white Israeli flag and the green white and orange, Irish tricolour flag. She has long blond hair and is wearing thin framed glasses and a black top. She is also wearing a gold necklace.

  20. A man wears a reflective vest and holds a microphone as he's surrounded by people cheering, holding up Syrian flags and taking pictures.

  21. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers a statement to the press after the meeting with the foreign ministers of the Arab Contact Group on Syria in Jordan's southern city of Aqaba on December 14

  22. Photos of those held in Mezzeh military airbase.

  23. A composite image of the prisoners

  24. Travis Timmerman alongside Syrians and an American commander near the US garrison at Tanf.