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Idlib, Syria, Jan. 26, 2019. University students wearing white lab coats raise clean sheets of paper during a protest in the city of Ariha near Idlib, Northern Syria. The students organized the protest to denounce the decision of the Salvation Government, which operates in the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)-controlled areas, to suspend the students' exams until their university obtains a license from the government. The Salvation Government is pressing civil institutions, local councils, and universities to work under the government's management after the HTS gained total control of the area following clashes with the Free Syrian Army.