Rebel fighters pose for a picture outside the mausoleum of Syria's late president Hafez al-Assad in the family's ancestral village of Qardaha in the western Latakia province on December 11, 2024, after it was stormed by opposition factions and his gravesite set ablaze. The father and predecessor of Syria's ousted president Bashar al-Assad died in 2000. (Photo by AAREF WATAD / AFP)