In this picture taken from the northern Syrian village of Ariha, smoke billows from the site of clashes and mutual shelling between Syrian opposition factions and regime forces on the front lines on the outskirts of the city of Saraqib in Syria's Aleppo province on November 28, 2024. A Syria war monitor said on November 28 that clashes between the army and jihadists killed more than 130 combatants in the worst fighting in the country's northwest in years, as the government also reported fierce battles. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)