Fighters affiliated with Syria's new administration take part in an operation to track down members of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's paramilitary forces in the central city of Homs on January 2, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
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 soldiers carry a casket during the funeral of the victims of a drone attack targeting a Syrian military academy, outside a hospital in government-controlled Homs, Oct. 6, 2023. (Photo: Louai Beshara/AFP)
An Israeli military vehicle patrols along the border with Syria near Kibbutz Haspin in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights on July 2, 2023. (Photo: Jalaa Marey/ AFP)