An anti-regime fighter tears off a poster depicting Syrian President Bachar al-Assad (L) and his brother Maher at the airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on December 2, 2024. The Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group and allied factions took over Aleppo city at the weekend, except for neighbourhoods controlled by Kurdish forces, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)