In photos: Syrians celebrate Bashar Assad's fall

Opposition fighters celebrate the take over of the city by the insurgents in Damascus, Dec. 8, 2024.

Syrian opposition fighters celebrate the fall of the Syrian government, in Damascus, Dec. 8, 2024.

An opposition fighter walks beside a broken bust of the late Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus, Dec. 8, 2024.

Syrian opposition fighters take a selfie inside the Presidential Palace after the Syrian government collapsed in Damascus, Dec. 8, 2024.

Men hold a Syrian opposition flag on the top of a vehicle as people celebrate after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted President Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Dec. 8, 2024.

A woman looks at a ransacked room at the private residence of Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Malkeh district of Damascus, Dec. 8, 2024.

Syrians wave the opposition flag bearing the portrait of late rebel fighter and famous chanter Abdel-Basset al-Sarout in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish region, on Dec. 8, 2024.

A Syrian Kurdish fighter flashes the V-sign for victory as local gunmen control the area around Qamishli's airport in northeastern Syria on Dec. 8, 2024

Syrians celebrate as they return to Damascus via Lebanon's Masnaa border crossing east of Beirut on Dec. 8, 2024, following the fall of the Syrian capital to anti-government fighters.

Syrians celebrate the fall of Bashar Assad's government in the town of Bar Elias, Lebanon, near the border with Syria, Dec. 8, 2024.