IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir (M) with commander of the Israeli military’s Northern Command, Major General Ori Gordin (R) in southern Syria, Apr. 20, 2025. (Photo: Avichay Adraee/ X)
Suleiman Khalil, 21, who lost his leg in a landmine explosion while harvesting olives with his friends in a field, walks outside his home in Idlib, Syria, April 9, 2025. (Photo: AP)
A portrait of Russia's President Vladimir Putin hangs above as Russian military trucks enter the Russian-leased Syrian military base of Hmeimim in Latakia province in western Syria on December 29, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
A picture taken during a tour organised by Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation Forces) shows monitoring points along the Iraqi-Syrian border on December 5, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
Syrian refugee Rayan Assani, 8 years old, waits in a queue with her belongings to enter Syria at Cilvegozu border crossing gate, in Reyhanli district in Hatay on Dec. 12, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
Vehicles carrying displaced Syrians pass by an internally-displaced persons (IDP) camp by Dayr Ballut near the Turkish border in the west of the northern province of Aleppo on Feb. 15, 2020. (Photo: AFP)
Inmates accused of being an Islamic State (ISIS) fighters sit inside a cell at the Syrian Democratic Forces-run Gweiran Prison, now called Panorama, in Hassakeh, northeastern Syria, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. (Photo: AP)
Members from Bashar Assad's Syrian army period line up to register with Syrian rebels as part of a "identification and reconciliation process" at a army compound in Latakia, Syria, Dec. 17, 2024. (Photo: AP)