FILE PHOTO: A member of the Syrian security forces checks

FILE PHOTO: A member of the Syrian security forces checks an ID of a person, after hundreds were killed in some of the deadliest violence in 13 years of civil war, pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar al-Assad against the country’s new Islamist rulers in Latakia, Syria March 9, 2025. REUTERS/Karam al-Masri/File Photo