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FILE PHOTO: Vehicles queue to enter Lebanon, after the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, near the Lebanese-Syrian border, in Syria, January 1, 2025. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo

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FILE PHOTO: Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati attends the political festival Atreju, organised by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia) right-wing party, in Rome, Italy, December 14, 2024. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca/File Photo

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FILE PHOTO: Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, speaks to the media on the day he meets with Qatar's Minister of State Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi, after the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, December 23, 2024. REUTERS/Ammar Awad//File Photo