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Report: Syria’s national security chief in Egypt

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Outgoing UN envoy makes new appeal to Syria’s warring sides

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UN official: Syria has withdrawn controversial property law

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

An Israeli soldier opens the border gates as an UN vehicle enters Syria in Quneitra crossing in the Israeli controlled Golan, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. The crossing between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights reopened for U.N. observers who had left the area four years ago because of the fighting there. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Syria reopens 2 crossings with Jordan, Israeli-held Golan

By Albert Aji and Omar Akour - Associated Press

Syrian president says Russia-Turkey Idlib deal ‘temporary’

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The Latest: Putin urges EU to help rebuild Syria

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FILE - In this July 20, 2018 file photo, a poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad with Arabic that reads &quot;Welcome in victorious Syria,&quot; is displayed on the border between Lebanon and Syria. Assad told a little-known Kuwaiti newspaper that Syria has reached a “major understanding” with other Arab states after years of hostility over the country’s civil war. The interview published Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, in the Al-Shahed newspaper, was Assad's first with a Gulf newspaper since the war began in 2011. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Syria’s Assad says ‘understanding’ reached with Arab states

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

CORRECTS NAME OF SYRIAN DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER TO WALID AL-MOALLEM - Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Walid al-Moallem addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Syria FM: Victory over ‘terrorism’ is near, US must leave

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Sept. 20, 2018, file photo, motor cycles ride past buildings destroyed during the fighting in the northern town of Ariha in Idlib province, Syria. As world leaders talk peace at the U.N. this week, the Syrian region of Idlib clings to fragile hope that diplomacy will help avert a blowout battle over the country’s last rebel stronghold. (Ugur Can/DHA via AP, File)

Syria: Everyone else’s battleground, in both war and peace

By Angela Charlton - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018 (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, Pool)

The Latest: Mattis says plane downing won’t affect IS fight

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands after their joint news conference following the talks in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in Sochi, Russia, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) ** FILE **

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Vladimir Putin set Syria deal on demilitarized zone

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Muhammed Halife, 5, says he was injured during a bombing west Idlib, Syria. Government forces, backed by Russia and Iran, have been massing troops for weeks in preparation for an attack on Idlib province, the last major rebel stronghold in the country.The U.N. has warned that a battle will spark a humanitarian catastrophe. (Associated Press/File)

Bashar Assad’s Idlib attack to test U.S. Syria, Russia policy

By Ben Wolfgang and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, Illinois Republican (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Adam Kinzinger’s blistering assault on U.S. strategy: ‘It’s time to act’ in Syria

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Turkey urges global support for cease-fire in Syria’s Idlib

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

This photo released on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018 by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows smoke rising from a Syrian government airstrike, in Hobeit village, near Idlib, Syria. High-level diplomats from Iran, Russia and Turkey were meeting Tuesday with the U.N. envoy for Syria about creating a committee to revise the war-battered country's constitution. Tuesday's talks in Geneva under U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura come amid concerns he and other U.N. officials have expressed about a looming battle for Idlib. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

The Latest: UN chief: A ‘bloodbath’ must be averted in Idlib

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Virginia state senator returns to Syria to praise Assad

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FILE- In this April 4, 2018, file photo, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, left, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan join hands after a joint press conference in Ankara, Turkey. When the presidents of Russia, Turkey and Iran meet in Tehran on Friday, Sept. 7, all eyes will be on their diplomacy averting a bloodbath in Idlib, Syria's crowded northwestern province and last opposition stronghold. The three leaders whose nations are all under U.S. sanctions have an interest in working together, but Idlib is complicated and they have little common ground. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

Iran summit seeks to avert a bloodbath in northwestern Syria

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with the Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump warns Syria against ‘slaughter,’ denies he wanted to assassinate Assad

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

White House warns Syria against chemical weapons use

By KEN THOMAS - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, speaks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Sept 3, 2018. Zarif said at the start of a visit to Damascus on Monday that &quot;terrorists must be purged&quot; from Syria's Idlib and the entire northwestern province returned to government control. (SANA via AP)

Iran FM says ‘terrorists must be purged’ from Syria’s Idlib

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press