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TOPSHOT - This aerial view shows people celebrating the ouster of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad near the landmark Damascus Sword sculpture at the Umayyad Square in central Damascus on December 13, 2024. Thousands rallied in central Damascus and in cities across Syria on December 13 to celebrate during the first Friday prayers since Assad's ouster. More than half a century of brutal rule by the Assad clan came to a sudden end on December 8, after a lightning rebel offensive swept across the country and took the capital. (Photo by Sameer Al-Doumy / AFP) (Photo by SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images)