Police officers from Idlib stand in front of a police station in the Bab Touma neighborhood of the Old City of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
People walk past shops on a street in the Bab Touma neighborhood of the Old City of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A police officer from Idlib shows a room of a damaged police station in the Bab Touma neighborhood of the Old City of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Syrian fighters stand on a street at the central square in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
FILE - A car travels down a deserted street in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)
A street vendor flashes a victory sign in the Bab Touma neighborhood in the Old City of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Syrian fighters detain men suspects of looting at a residential complex of former Bashar Assad's military officers at the village of Husseiniyeh, in the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. A rebel force deployed to the village in southeastern Damascus to stop looters who swarmed a residential complex in the area and set some apartments on fire. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
FILE - A masked opposition fighter carries a flag of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in the old walled city of Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. HTS is the largest rebel faction within the opposition that toppled Bashar Assad's regime last Sunday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
FILE - Opposition fighters sit in a restaurant at the Al-Hamidiyeh market inside the old walled city of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
FILE - People gather to celebrate days after the fall of Bashar Assad's government at Umayyad Square in Damascus, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
FILE - A man holds two ropes tied in the shape of nooses, found in the infamous Saydnaya military prison, just north of Damascus, Syria, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
FILE - Syrian fighters walk to attend a celebratory demonstration following the first Friday prayers since Bashar Assad's ouster, in Damascus' central square, Syria, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
FILE - Women pose for a photograph with opposition fighters in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)
FILE - People play cards at a café in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
People walk towards the infamous Saydnaya military prison, just north of Damascus, Syria, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, after thousands of inmates were released following the rebels' overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime on Sunday. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
FILE - Syrian opposition fighters celebrate after the Syrian government collapsed in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)
Airport staff work on the maintenance of an aircraft at the Damascus international airport Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
FILE - An armed opposition fighter walks among costumers at the Al-Hamidiyeh market inside the old walled city of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
FILE - A woman holding a rifle borrowed from a Syrian opposition fighter poses for a picture next to a government forces tank that was left on a street at Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
Syrian fighters aims their weapons in direction of suspected looters at a residential complex of former Bashar Assad's military officers at the village of Husseiniyeh, in the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)