Image1. A man gets a shave at a barber shop in Damascus, Syria. Image 2. Children attend class at Suleiman Al-Halabi Elementary School after schools reopened this week. On December 8, rebel forces in Syria retook the capital and several other cities from longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, who fled the country for Moscow. The fall of the Assad regime marks a new chapter for Syria, which has been mired in a multi-party civil war since 2011, sparked by the Arab Spring uprisings. | December 16-17, 2024 |  Chris McGrath @cmcgrath_photo | #GettyImages #GettyImagesNews #Photojournalism #Syria