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, Tuesday Dec. 17, 2024.(Photo: AP/Leo Correa)
A picture taken in Khan Shaykhun town shows smoke billowing amid confrontations between anti-regime and governmental forces in the Hama governorate on Dec. 5, 2024. (Photo: Bakr al-Kasem/AFP)
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)