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A gift to Damascus: 150,000 COVID-19 Chinese vaccines

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

Faeza Satouf, a Syrian refugee who was granted asylum in Denmark in 2015, talks to The Associated Press during an interview in Nivaa, Denmark, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Ten years after the start of the Syrian civil war, Denmark has become the first European country to start revoking the residency permits of some refugees from the Damascus area, including Satouf's. (AP Photo/David Keyton)

Denmark tells some Syrians to leave, separating families

By DAVID KEYTON - Associated Press

A health worker checks boxes of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines inside a truck, that were delivered to Idlib through a border crossing with Turkey, in Bab Al-Hawa, northwestern Syria, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Syria's last rebel-held enclave received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, with a refrigerated truck offloading over 50,000 of United Nations-secured jabs in the overcrowded province. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

First batch of COVID vaccines lands in opposition-held Syria

By GHAITH ALSAYED - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 13, 2016 file photo, a Syrian election official waits for voters at a polling station with posters of President Bashar Assad during the parliamentary election in Damascus, Syria. On Sunday, April 18, 2021, Syria’s parliament speaker announced that presidential elections in the war-ravaged country will be held May 26. The election is widely expected to give Assad a fourth seven-year term. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

First woman ever applies to run for president of Syria

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 16, 2018 file photo, Syrian authorities distribute bread, vegetables and pasta to residents in the town of Douma, near Damascus, Syria. As Syria marks the 10th anniversary Monday, March 15, 2021, of the start of its uprising-turned-civil war, President Bashar Assad may still be in power, propped up by Russia and Iran. But millions of people are being pushed deeper into poverty, and a majority of households can hardly scrape together enough to secure their next meal. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

‘Republic of Queues’: 10 years on, Syria is a hungry nation

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, file photo, Syrian army defectors, celebrate shortly after they defected and join the anti-Syrian regime protesters at Khaldiyeh area in Homs province, central Syria. Syrians are marking 10 years since peaceful protests against President Bashar Assad's government erupted in March 2011, touching off a popular uprising that quickly turned into a full-blown civil war. (AP Photo, File)

War’s timeline as Syrians mark 10 years since uprising began

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

This file photo released on July 19, 2020, on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and his wife Asma voting at a polling station in the parliamentary elections, in Damascus, Syria. (Syrian Presidency via AP, File)

Syrian president, wife test positive for the coronavirus

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US: Russia blocks Syria chemical weapons use accountability

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

2 Syrians held in Israel to be released in prisoner exchange

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

In this Aug. 30, 2018, file photo, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem gestures as he speaks to the media in Moscow, Russia. Al-Moallem, a career diplomat who became one of the country's most prominent faces to the outside world during the uprising against Syria's President Bashar Assad, died Monday, Nov. 16, 2020. He was 79. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Syria’s longtime Foreign Minister al-Moallem dies at age 79

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, listens to Syrian President Bashar Assad, right on screen, during their talks via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia’s Putin says time for Syrian refugees to return home

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

In this photo released on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, wearing a mask to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, walks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, center, and Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, left, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. Lavrov met with Syrian President Bashar Assad shortly after landing in the Syrian capital on his first visit since 2012. (Syrian Presidency via Facebook)

Russian delegation in Syria to expand trade, economic ties

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

Israeli drone crashes in Lebanon amid tensions with Syria

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

The Trump administration is ramping up pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad and his inner circle with a raft of new economic and travel sanctions for human rights abuses. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Syria sanctions aimed at removing Bashar Assad from power

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, boys sit amid the rubble of a house that according to the Syrian authorities was attacked by an Israeli airstrike, in the Damascus suburbs of Hajira, Syria, Monday, April 27, 2020. The Syrian military and state media said Monday that Israeli warplanes flying over Lebanon fired missiles toward areas near the Syrian capital of Damascus, killing three civilians. An opposition war monitor says four Iran-backed fighters were also killed. The military says Syrian air defenses shot some of the missiles down. The reports said the attack happened around dawn on Monday. (SANA via AP)

Reports: Israeli strike on Syria kills 4 gunmen, 3 civilians

By BASSEM MROUE and ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

Turkish backed Syrian fighter fires at a frontline near the town of Saraqib in Idlib province, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Syrian government forces have captured dozens of villages, including major rebel strongholds, over the past few days in the last opposition-held area in the country's northwest. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syrian opposition fighters retake key town from government

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Syrian capital rocked by explosions as Israel hits targets

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

Syrian President Bashar Assad listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. Putin has traveled to Syria to meet with President Bashar Assad, a key Iranian ally. The rare visit Tuesday comes amid soaring tensions between Iran and the United States following the U.S. drone strike last week that killed a top Iranian general who led forces supporting Assad in Syria's civil war. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Symbolic Aleppo flight comes as civilians suffer in Syria

By ALBERT AJI and ZEINA KARAM - 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

Israel hits Iran-backed posts in Syria, casualties reported

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