Rebel fighters stand next to the burning gravesite of Syria's late president Hafez al-Assad at his mausoleum in the family's ancestral village of Qardaha in the western Latakia province on December 11, 2024, after it was stormed by opposition factions. The father and predecessor of Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad died in 2000. (Photo by Aaref WATAD / AFP)