EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / The body of a killed Syrian army soldier is covered with a poster of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in a street of the captured central-west city of Hama on December 6, 2024. In little over a week, the offensive by rebel forces has seen Syria's second city Aleppo and strategically located Hama fall from President Bashar al-Assad's control for the first time since the civil war began in 2011. (Photo by MUHAMMAD HAJ KADOUR / AFP)