Looking back at the #YearInPictures, December 2025 Dec. 8, Damascus, Syria: Fireworks lit the sky over Syria’s capital as tens of thousands of people celebrated the first anniversary of the fall of the dictator Bashar al-Assad. 📸 dguttenfelder Dec. 16, Sydney, Australia: A makeshift memorial at Bondi Beach a day after two gunmen killed 15 people and injured several others gathered there to celebrate Hanukkah. 📸 mattabbottphoto Dec. 13, Providence, Rhode Island: Hundreds of police officers swarmed the streets near Brown University after a gunman burst into a classroom, killing two students and wounding nine others before fleeing. 📸 chriscappyphoto Dec. 5, Spin Boldak, Afghanistan: A boy at a border crossing with Pakistan. He is one of the thousands of Afghans living in Pakistan who were deported or forced to return to Afghanistan this year as tensions with the Taliban escalated. 📸 tomas.munita