Anti-regime fighters drive along the Aleppo- Damascus M5 international highway in the newly captured northwestern area of Khan al-Assal, as smoke rises in the distance on November 29, 2024. Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies took control of five districts of Syria's second city of Aleppo on November 29, "without any significant pushback" from the Syrian military, a war monitor said. (Photo by AFP)