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Syrian stock market halts trading for Assad cousin’s company

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, a girl stands inside Idlib's old central prison, now transformed into a camp for people displaced by fighting, in Idli, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

U.S. envoy James Jeffrey sees chance for talks to avert Idlib bloodbath

By Madison Hirneisen - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, wears a mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who also wore a mask and gloves, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April. 20, 2020. (SANA via AP)

Iran, Syria call for lifting sanctions during pandemic

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, April 2, 2019, Fernando Arias, Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) speaks during talks in Moscow, Russia. The global chemical weapons watchdog issued a report Wednesday April 8, 2020, blaming the Syrian air force for chemical attacks using sarin and chlorine in late March 2017 on the central town of Ltamenah, and Arias said it is now up to the organization, “the United Nations Secretary-General, and the international community as a whole to take any further action they deem appropriate and necessary.” (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, FILE)

Watchdog: Syrian air force responsible for chemical attacks

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Syria, UAE leaders discuss coronavirus, a thaw in relations

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands during a news conference after their talks in the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 5, 2020. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, say they have reached agreements that could end fighting in northwestern Syria. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool)

A tense Russia-Turkey truce in Syria halts bombing campaign

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this Jan. 8, 2020, file photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, talk during a ceremony in Istanbul for the inauguration of the TurkStream pipeline. A summit meeting between the Turkish and Russian leaders scheduled for Thursday, March 5, 2020, may be the last chance to work out a deal that avoids a calamity in Syria's northwest. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Russian, Turkish presidents meet as Syria violence continues

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

In this Jan. 8, 2020, file photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, talk during a ceremony in Istanbul for the inauguration of the TurkStream pipeline. A summit meeting between the Turkish and Russian leaders scheduled for Thursday, March 5, 2020, may be the last chance to work out a deal that avoids a calamity in Syria's northwest. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Russia-Turkey talks a last chance to avert Idlib calamity

By SUZAN FRASER and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Speaker of the People's Council of Syria Hammouda Sabbagh, center right, receives Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, second left, on his arrival to the airport, in the Syrian capital Damascus, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020. (SANA via AP)

Assad’s forces make advances, further securing Aleppo region

By ALBERT AJI and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE - This Aug. 24, 2019, file photo, a Syrian soldier in the northwestern town of Khan Sheikoun, stands on the highway that links the capital Damascus with the northern city of Aleppo, Syria. The M5 highway, recaptured by President Bashar Assad’s forces this week, is arguably the most coveted prize in Syria’s civil war. The strategic highway is vital for Syria’s economy as well as for moving troops. (AP Photo/Albert Aji, File)

AP Explains: Why Syria’s M5 is Assad’s highway to victory

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Turkish backed fighter prepare to go to the frontline in the Syrian province of Idlib, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020. The fighting in Idlib led to the collapse of a fragile cease-fire that was brokered by Turkey and Russia in 2018. Turkey supports the Syrian rebels, while Russia has heavily backed the Syrian government's campaign to retake the area which is the last rebel stronghold in Syria. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Rebels shoot down Syrian helicopter as fighting intensifies

By BASSEM MROUE and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

This image released by the Syrian Presidency shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, in Damascus, Syria on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. Putin's visit is the second to the war-torn country where his troops have been fighting alongside Syrian government forces since 2015. (Syrian Presidency via AP)

Russia’s Putin visits Syria to meet Assad, a key Iran ally

By ALBERT AJI and DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

In this file photo released on Monday, Nov. 9, 2019, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with Italy's Rai News 24, in Damascus, Syria. (SANA via AP) ** FILE **

Iranian general transformed Syria’s war in Assad’s favor

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2016, file photo provided by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, center, attends a meeting in Tehran, Iran. Iraqi TV and three Iraqi officials said Friday, Jan. 3, 2020, that Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, has been killed in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)

Iran’s popular Gen. Soleimani became an icon by targeting US

By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Russia eyes major commercial projects in Syria

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In this photo released on Monday Nov. 9, 2019 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, speaks during an interview with Monica Maggioni, left, the CEO of Italy's Rai News 24, in Damascus, Syria. Assad said in an interview aired Monday that the global chemical weapons watchdog has faked and falsified a report over an attack near the capital Damascus last year &quot;just because the Americans wanted them to do so.&quot; (SANA via AP)

Syria’s Assad: OPCW faked a report on attack near Damascus

Associated Press

UAE diplomat praises Syrian president’s ‘wise leadership’

Associated Press

FILE - In this July 24, 2019 file photo, a man stands in front of an ATM machine outside a branch of the International Bank for Trade and Finance, in Damascus, Syria. The Syrian pound has hit a record low amid the country’s grinding war and as a financial and political crisis roils neighboring Lebanon, Syria’s economic lung. The dollar was worth 920 Syrian pounds at some exchange shops on Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, in the capital, Damascus, a sharp drop from recent days. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Syrian pound at new low as crisis roils neighboring Lebanon

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2015, file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad gestures during an interview in Damascus, Syria. Assad says members of the Islamic State group held in the country will stand trial in local courts specialized in cases of terrorism. Assad made his comments in an interview with Paris Match when asked about a deal with a Kurdish-led force that would eventually bring their areas under government control. (SANA via AP, File)

Assad: IS members in Syrian Kurds jails to stand local trial

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

Spain court seeks to try Assad’s uncle for money laundering

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