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In the Tadamon neighborhood of Damascus, residents hoped the new government would collect the bones and exhume the bodies buried in mass graves underfoot.
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Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led militia that was long seen as a key American ally in Syria in the fight against the Islamic State.
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Musab Abu Rukbah, right, and Roman Valach, one of Mr. Abu Rukbah’s lawyers, leaving a Vienna courtroom after a hearing in June.
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The Russian naval facility at Tartus in coastal Syria in 2024.
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Khaled al-Halabi, a former intelligence commander under the dictator Bashar al-Assad, after a hearing in Vienna last month. Mr. al-Halabi was convicted of torture among other charges.
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A man in the village of Nabatieh al Fawka, Lebanon. He returned earlier this week after fleeing heavy fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah in the area.
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Khaled al-Halabi, a Syrian former brigadier general, entering court in Vienna on Monday. He is the highest-ranking official of the Assad regime to appear in a European court on charges of war crimes.