Mahmoud Al-Fasih holds the body of his three-week-old daughter Sela before laying her to rest.
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Three babies die from cold in Gaza, as Israel’s war pushes Palestinians deep into tent camps
A Syrian opposition flag is waved in Damascus, Syria, on December 9, 2024, during a celebration of the collapse of the Assad regime.
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At least 14 security personnel killed in ‘ambush’ by former Assad forces, new Syrian authorities say
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Tel Aviv courtroom on December 10, to defend himself against corruption charges.
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Accusations of genocide. Charges of corruption. Improbably, Netanyahu had a good year
Civil Defense members put out a fire in a broadcast van following an Israeli strike that killed five journalists, according to medics with the Gaza health authorities.
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Israeli strike kills five journalists in Gaza, hospital says
A screengrab of a video showing men setting fire to a publicly displayed Christmas tree in the Christian-majority town of Suqaylabiyah, near the city of Hama.
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Christians protest in Syrian capital after burning of Christmas tree
Two men who fled Syria in 2016 have different feelings about returning home following the ousting of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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A tale of two Syrians: One finally made it back, another is too fearful to return
Families in Khan Yunis are trying to meet their daily needs by filling jerry cans with water, which is scarce in the area, in Gaza on December 4, 2024. Palestinians in Gaza, under Israeli attacks, face difficulties in obtaining clean water.
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Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of genocide by ‘deliberately’ restricting water in Gaza
Syrian soldiers and police officers line up on December 17, 2024, to register at a centre in Daraa created by Islamist-led rebels to settle their status and surrender their weapons. Islamist-led rebels took Damascus in a lightning offensive on December 8, ousting president Bashar al-Assad and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. (Photo by Aris MESSINIS / AFP) (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Former Assad security forces hand in weapons to new Syrian government
Palestinians look at the aftermath of an Israeli bombing in Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in June.
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Hamas expresses optimism for Gaza deal even as obstacles remain
TOPSHOT - Members of Syria's White Helmets civil defence collect human remains at a mass grave that was uncovered, in Damascus, on December 16, 2024. Islamist-led rebels took Damascus in a lightning offensive on December 8, ousting president Bashar al-Assad and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 100,000 people died in Syria's jails and detention centres from 2011. (Photo by Aris MESSINIS / AFP) (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hundreds of thousands of bodies could be buried in Syrian mass graves, advocacy group says
In this photo released on Nov. 9, 2019 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks in Damascus, Syria.
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Assad says he didn’t plan to flee Syria, according to presidency Telegram account
Aljazeera photojournalist Ahmad Al-Louh was killed today in an israeli airstrike on Al-Nussiarat camp in central Gaza
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Israeli strike kills Al Jazeera photojournalist on one year anniversary of colleague’s death
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President-elect Donald Trump.
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Netanyahu says he spoke with Trump about need for ‘victory,’ as Israeli government approves plan for Golan expansion
Fighters from the Popular Resistance Brigades, a local militia, take part in a military parade in Idlib city during their graduation from a military course in the presence of the prime minister of the Syrian Salvation Government on February 17, 2022.
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Can Syria’s Islamist rebels govern the country? Their rule in Idlib offers clues
TAL RIFAAT, SYRIA - DECEMBER 3: Syrian National Army fighters drive their vehicles from Aleppo to the Manbij frontline as part of Operation Dawn of Freedomon December 3, 2024 in Aleppo, Syria. (Photo by Zana Halil/ dia images via Getty Images)
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Crucial dam at risk as Kurds and Turkish-backed groups battle in northern Syria
‘Catastrophic’ Israeli barrage hits hospital in northern Gaza, doctor says
The dead, the missing and the reunited: Three tales of Syria’s tortured prisoners
Missing US man found in Syria says he was kept in prison after entering country as a pilgrim
Screengrabs taken from a video posted to social media on December 11 show a facility where captagon was produced in Syria.
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Video points to Assad regime’s involvement in large-scale trafficking of illicit drugs
Israel strikes Syria 480 times and seizes territory as Netanyahu pledges to change face of the Middle East
How Syria’s rebels toppled the Assad regime, in 7 maps
Syria is free of its dictator. The rebels’ biggest challenge now is learning how to govern