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  1. Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has signed a constitutional declaration covering a five-year transitional period, at the presidential palace in Damascus, Syria (13 March 2025)

  2. A woman in a red top that reads 'not in our name' has her hand behind her back and is being escorted up an escalator by a police officer

  3. Palestinians ride bicycles past the war-damaged al-Basma IVF Centre in Gaza City, northern Gaza

  4. File photo showing the Bushehr nuclear power plant, in Bushehr province, southern Iran (29 April 2024)

  5. Image shows Mahmoud Khalil

  6. Mahmoud Khalil speaks at a press event with other Columbia University protesters

  7. Palestinians walk through a street market in Khan Younis, southern Gaza

  8. Alawite Syrians, who fled the violence in western Syria, cross the Nahr el-Kabir river in Akkar, Lebanon (11 March 2025)

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

  10. Marco Rubio being interviewed on the plane

  11. 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.

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

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

  14. syria security forces in Qardaha

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

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

  17. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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