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)

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)

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)

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)

Syrian fighters stand on a street at the central square in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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)

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 - People play cards at a café in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

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 - Women pose for a photograph with opposition fighters in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, 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)

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)

FILE - Syrian opposition fighters celebrate after the Syrian government collapsed in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)

FILE - A car travels down a deserted street in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, 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 - 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)