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FILE In this file photo taken on Monday, May 9, 2016, Russian the S-300 air defense missile systems drive during the Victory Day military parade marking 71 years after the victory in WWII in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. Moscow will supply the Syrian government with modern S-300 missile defense systems following last week’s downing of a Russian plane, the Russian Defense Minister announced on Monday Sept. 24, 2018.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Syrian official says S-300 defenses will give Israel pause

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Syria's United Nations Ambassador Bashar Jaafari, center, listens as President Donald Trump address the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday Sept. 25, 2018 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

CROSSTALK: U.S., Russia play ‘chicken’ in Syria

By Edward Lozansky

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, welcomes Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prior to their talks at the Bocharovy Ruchei residence, in Sochi, Russia, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. The leaders of Russia and Turkey agreed Monday to establish a demilitarized zone in Syria's Idlib region. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

Syria’s government and opposition welcome Idlib deal

By BASSEM MROUE and SARAH EL DEEB - 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

Blasts from area of military airport shake Syrian capital

Associated Press

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian president Bashar Assad, right, meets with Iran's Defense minister Amir Hatami, in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018. Iran has provided key support to Assad in the seven-year civil war, sending thousands of military advisers and allied militiamen to bolster his forces. (SANA via AP)

Iran says ‘no third party’ will limit its support to Syria

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

Syria’s Assad attends holiday prayers at Damascus mosque

Associated Press

In this Wednesday, July 18, 2018, photo, a poster of Syrian President Bashar Assad is displayed on the door of a souvenir store in the Takiyya complex in the old town of Damascus, Syria. His face is everywhere. Buoyed by successive military advances in the past year and having completely secured his seat of power and surrounding suburbs for the first time in years, Assad's government is openly boasting about its victories with posters and billboards placed on every public square, market and street corner. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

AP PHOTOS: Assad’s victory posters crowd Damascus streets

By HASSAN AMMAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 14, 2017, file photo, provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows civil defense workers carrying children after airstrikes hit a school housing a number of displaced people, in the western part of the southern Daraa province of Syria. The Israeli military said Sunday it had rescued members of a Syrian volunteer civil organization, known as White Helmets, from the volatile frontier area and evacuated them to a third country, the first such Israeli intervention in Syria's lengthy civil war. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File)

Syria blasts evacuation of White Helmets as ‘criminal’

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

In this Friday, July 20, 2018, photo, a poster of President Bashar Assad with Arabic that reads &quot;Welcome in victorious Syria.&quot; is seen on the border between Lebanon and Syria Syria. The celebratory mood in government-controlled areas stems from successive military advances in the past year and an impression that President Bashar Assad, with massive support by unwavering allies Russia and Iran, has won the war or at least militarily defeated the opposition trying to topple him.(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

In Damascus, Syrians dare to hope that war’s end may be near

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Report: Airstrikes on Syria pro-government positions kill 12

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

Arkansas town’s bid to lift speed-trap sanctions denied

Associated Press

Israeli soldiers walk past tanks in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, Thursday, May 10, 2018. Israel says it struck dozens of Iranian targets in Syria overnight in response to a rocket barrage on Israeli positions in the Golan Heights. It was the biggest Israeli strike in Syria since the 1973 war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel calls on Syria’s Assad to ‘get rid’ of Iranian forces

By Ian Deitch and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

This photo released on Wednesday, May 9, 2018, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows flames rising after an attack in an area known to have numerous Syrian army military bases, in Kisweh, south of Damascus, Syria. Syrian state-run media said Israel struck a military outpost near the capital Damascus on Tuesday, saying its air defenses intercepted and destroyed two of the incoming missiles. The reported attack came shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, calling Tehran a main exporter of terrorism in the region. (SANA via AP)

Syrian media report Israeli attack near capital Damascus

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Arkansas ‘speed trap’ town asks to resume patrolling highway

Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Alaeddin Boroujerdi, left, the head of Iran's parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 30, 2018. The meeting came as a missile attack targeting government outposts in Syria's northern region killed at least 26 pro-government fighters, mostly Iranians, amid soaring Mideast tensions. (SANA via AP)

Latest round of missile strikes in Syria ratchets up regional tensions

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

The Syrian army and its allies — Russians and Shiites from Lebanon, Iraq and Iran — have used siege and bombardment tactics to drive rebel groups into submission. (Associated Press/File)

Syria’s Bashar Assad to strike rural Homs

By Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

Fragments of US &quot;tomahawk&quot; cruise missiles captured by Syrian forces in a recent attack, are displayed at a briefing in the Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 25, 2018. The Russian military has indicated it will supply the Syrian government with a sophisticated air defense system, after condemning a missile attack launched by the U.S., Britain and France earlier this month. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Chemical weapons team gathers more samples from Syrian town

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian government forces overseeing the evacuation by bus of rebels and their family from the towns of Ruhaiba in the eastern Qalamoun region in the Damascus countryside, Syria, Saturday, April 21, 2018. Syrian state media says several buses have left the towns of Ruhaiba, Jayroud, and al-Nasriya carrying hundreds of rebels and their families to opposition territory in north Syria. (SANA via AP)

Chemical weapons inspectors collect samples from Syria site

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

A girl shops at a kiosk in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, April 17, 2018. The Arabic on the right reads, &quot;Regards Assad, God protect you Assad.&quot; (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

UN team fired on at suspected Syria chemical attack site

By PHILIP ISSA and MICHAEL CORDER - Associated Press