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)
A bus transporting Red Cross staff and Palestinians prisoners released from Israeli jails in exchange for hostages released by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, Nov. 26, 2023. (Photo: Jaafar Ashtiyah/AFP)
ISIS has previously carried out mass killings following military assaults in Iraq and Syria, including the slaughter of hundreds of members of the al-Sheitat tribe in Deir ez-Zor in 2014. (Photo: AFP)
Rescuers search through the rubble of a collapsed building for victims and survivors following a deadly earthquake that shook Syria at dawn on February 6, 2023 in Aleppo's Salaheddine district (Photo: AFP)