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Syrians attend a concert during a Christmas celebration early Sunday Dec. 22, 2024 in Damascus, Syria.(AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Hanaa, center, and her mother Khawla, left, who are searching for any information about her brother Hussam al-Khodr, look at photos of people reported to be missing by members of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad's army, or a pro-government militia, in the Marjeh square in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024. According to Hanaa, her brother was a soldier and went missing in 2014. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
People look at photos of people reported to be missing, by members of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad's army or a pro-government militia, as others sit to smoke and drink tea at the Marjeh square in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A bird flies over the security fence near the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights from Syria, in the town of Majdal Shams, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A cyclist rides past a portrait of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad with a shoe attached to it as a sign of disdain, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A Syrian Muslim woman takes a selfie in front of a Christmas tree in Bab Touma neighbourhood, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Fireworks burst over Saydnaya Convent during the lighting of the Christmas tree, in Saydnaya town on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A Syrian Christian man holds up a cross and shouts slogans in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024, during a protest march after a Christmas tree was set on fire in Hamah city on Sunday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Christians attend the Christmas mass in the Greek Orthodox convent Saint Takla, in Maaloula, some 60 km northern Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Houses are seen along the mountain as a cross stands over the Greek Orthodox convent Saint Takla on Christmas Eve in Maaloula, some 60 km northern Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Hussein Arbeeni, 41, shows how he blocked a room door by tapes where 23 people locked themselves inside it to prevent leakage of the sarin struck during a 2013 chemical weapons attack that was blamed on then President Bashar Assad's forces, in Zamalka neighbourhood, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A Syrian boy stands under a giant portrait of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad painted over with the colors of the "revolutionary" flag, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A man looks at fruits and vegetables displayed for sale in front of an ousted Syrian government forces tank that was left on a street in an Alawite neighbourhood, in Homs, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A man sits with a child next to a damaged image depicting the ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad, at the entrance of the Police headquarters, in Homs, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Children on the top of an ousted Syrian government forces tank that was left on a street in an Alawite neighbourhood, in Homs, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Members of the new armed forces, former rebels who overthrew Bashar Assad's government and now serve in the new Syrian government, stand in formation as they prepare for a military parade in downtown Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Members of the armed forces and former rebels, who overthrew Bashar Assad's government and now serve in the new Syrian government, pray before a military parade in downtown Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Syrians hold a copy of the Quran next to a Christian cross during a demonstration in support of unity among minorities and the ousting of the Bashar Assad government in Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
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Syrians attend a concert during a Christmas celebration early Sunday Dec. 22, 2024 in Damascus, Syria.(AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Hanaa, center, and her mother Khawla, left, who are searching for any information about her brother Hussam al-Khodr, look at photos of people reported to be missing by members of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad's army, or a pro-government militia, in the Marjeh square in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024. According to Hanaa, her brother was a soldier and went missing in 2014. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
People look at photos of people reported to be missing, by members of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad's army or a pro-government militia, as others sit to smoke and drink tea at the Marjeh square in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A bird flies over the security fence near the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights from Syria, in the town of Majdal Shams, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
A cyclist rides past a portrait of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad with a shoe attached to it as a sign of disdain, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A Syrian Muslim woman takes a selfie in front of a Christmas tree in Bab Touma neighbourhood, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Fireworks burst over Saydnaya Convent during the lighting of the Christmas tree, in Saydnaya town on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A Syrian Christian man holds up a cross and shouts slogans in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024, during a protest march after a Christmas tree was set on fire in Hamah city on Sunday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Christians attend the Christmas mass in the Greek Orthodox convent Saint Takla, in Maaloula, some 60 km northern Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Houses are seen along the mountain as a cross stands over the Greek Orthodox convent Saint Takla on Christmas Eve in Maaloula, some 60 km northern Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Hussein Arbeeni, 41, shows how he blocked a room door by tapes where 23 people locked themselves inside it to prevent leakage of the sarin struck during a 2013 chemical weapons attack that was blamed on then President Bashar Assad's forces, in Zamalka neighbourhood, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A Syrian boy stands under a giant portrait of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad painted over with the colors of the "revolutionary" flag, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
A man looks at fruits and vegetables displayed for sale in front of an ousted Syrian government forces tank that was left on a street in an Alawite neighbourhood, in Homs, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A man sits with a child next to a damaged image depicting the ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad, at the entrance of the Police headquarters, in Homs, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Children on the top of an ousted Syrian government forces tank that was left on a street in an Alawite neighbourhood, in Homs, Syria, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Members of the new armed forces, former rebels who overthrew Bashar Assad's government and now serve in the new Syrian government, stand in formation as they prepare for a military parade in downtown Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Members of the armed forces and former rebels, who overthrew Bashar Assad's government and now serve in the new Syrian government, pray before a military parade in downtown Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
