Syrian opposition fighters stand atop a captured Syrian army tank in the town of Maarat al-Numan, southwest from Aleppo, Syria, Saturday Nov. 30, 2024. (Photo: AP)
This aerial view shows a man removing trash from a submerged peach field in Hanoi on September 12, 2024, as heavy rains in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi brought flooding to northern Vietnam. (Photo: NHAC NGUYEN / AFP)
This combination of pictures created on September 01, 2024 shows undated portraits provided on September 1, 2024, by The Hostages Families Forum Headquarters. (Photo: AFP)
A boy walks through a puddle of sewage water past mounds of trash and rubble along a street in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in the northern Gaza Strip on August 14, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
Sudanese farmer Sena Abdura prepares the land around her house to plant Sorghum shortly after the first rains arrived in Kauda in the Nuba Mountains on June 14, 2024. (Photo by GUY PETERSON / AFP)
Palestinians watch smoke billowing following an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on June 6, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo: Bashar TALEB / AFP)
A Syrian flag flies as people walk across the Hafez al-Assad bridge across the Barada river in the centre of Damascus on April 14, 2024. — (Photo: AFP)
A panoramic view of Jerusalem's Old City is pictured at dawn of April 14, 2024, after Iran launched a drone and missile attack on Israel. (Photo: RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP)
Rescuers check the wreckage of a car at the scene of a bomb explosion in the norther Syrian city of Azaz, early on March 31, 2024. (Photo: BAKR ALKASEM / AFP)