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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, damaged and blocked street where clashes erupted between the Syrian government forces and rebels, near the Abbassiyin square, east Damascus, Syria, Monday March 20, 2017. Syrian government forces on Monday regained control of parts of Damascus that were attacked and captured by rebels and militants the previous day, with the two-day fighting leaving dozens dead on both sides, the military and an activist group said. (SANA via AP)

Syrian troops respond as rebels renew attack on Damascus

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows blood soaked streets and several damaged buses in a parking lot at the site of an attack by twin explosions in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 11, 2017. Twin explosions Saturday near religious shrines frequented by Shiite pilgrims in the Syrian capital Damascus killed dozens of people, Arab media and activists report. (SANA via AP) ** FILE **

Suicide bomber strikes Damascus justice building, killing 30

By Albert Aji and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Baltimore native tells family’s history in Syria in new book

By CHRISTINA TKACIK - Associated Press

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows blood soaked streets and several damaged buses in a parking lot at the site of an attack by twin explosions in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 11, 2017. Twin explosions Saturday near religious shrines frequented by Shiite pilgrims in the Syrian capital Damascus killed dozens of people, Arab media and activists report. (SANA via AP)

Twin blasts kill 40 near religious sites in Syria’s capital

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

Turkey's Chief of Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, center, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, left, and Russia's Chief of Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov and their delegations attend a meeting in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, Turkey, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Turkey's military says the Turkish, U.S. and Russian chiefs of military staff are meeting in southern Turkey to discuss developments in Syria and Iraq. The meeting comes amid renewed Turkish threats to hit U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish targets in the northern Syrian city of Manbij. (Turkish Military, Pool Photo via AP)

Turkish, US, Russian military chiefs discuss Syria tensions

By BASSEM MROUE and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 14, 2016 file photo, a Syrian man carries a carpet through a devastated part of the town of Palmyra as families load their belongings onto buses in the central Homs province in Syria. Syrian media says a pair of attacks on two security locations in the central Syrian city of Homs killed at least 30 people. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

In a blow, twin attacks on Syrian security kill at least 32

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Prosecutor says Damascus violated Arkansas’ speed-trap law

Associated Press

This image made from video shows the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike near a military airport west of Damascus, Syria on Friday, Jan. 13, 2016. Syria says Israel has launched missiles that hit near a military airport west of Damascus, triggering a fire. In a statement carried on the official news agency SANA, the military says the missiles were launched early on Friday and fell in the vicinity of the Mezzeh military airport. (Yomyat Kzefeh Hawen fi Dimashq via AP)

Syria says Israeli missiles struck near military airport

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Syria says Israeli strikes hit near airport west of Damascus

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

In this picture taken on Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, Syrian citizens attend a sit-in against the forced displacement in Syria, in front the United Nations headquarters, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. Syrian opposition figures and refugees point to an array of obstacles facing the displaced who want to return home, saying that the government is machinating to discourage potentially restive populations from returning to areas they fled during the war. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Displaced Syrians fear return, marking a demographic shift

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016 photo released by the Syrian Presidency, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks to The Associated Press at the presidential palace in Damascus, Syria. Egypt's subtle support for Assad and close ties to Russia, for example, puts the most populous Arab nation at odds with the Saudis, who support anti-government Islamist rebel groups in Syria and sees no alternative to Assad's departure. (Syrian Presidency via AP, File)

Kremlin: demands for Assad’s departure “thoughtless”

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Missile silo sites in North Dakota lack maintenance

By Faith Harron - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during his annual news conference in Moscow, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. Russia on Tuesday argued strongly against Turkey's demand to keep a leading Kurdish group out of Syria's peace talks, and said it expects the U.N. envoy to resist what he called &quot;blackmail&quot; by Turkey and others, reflecting sharp differences that remain ahead of the scheduled talks. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Syrian government press in their offensive on Aleppo

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Syria Press Center (SPC), an anti-government media group, shows rescue workers using a bulldozer to remove a burned van after airstrikes hit west of the town of Suran in Hama province, Syria, Thursday Sept. 1, 2016, killing a dozen people. Suspected government warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes in Hama amid a lightning advance by insurgents on government-controlled areas in the province. (Syria Press Center via AP)

300 Syrians leave besieged suburb of Damascus after deal

By Albert Aji - Associated Press

A Syrian man casts his vote at a polling station during the parliamentary election in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, April 13, 2016. Polling stations opened in government-held parts of Syria where a new 250-member parliament will be elected. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Bashar Assad says Syrian parliament elections blow to ‘terrorism’

By Albert Aji - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016 photo, Jihad Abu Kahrlah, an archaeologist at the National Museum in Damascus, Syria, works on preserving artifacts rescued from the Daraa Museum in southern Syria. Faced with the Islamic State group onslaught and destruction by looters, Syrian antiquities authorities succeeded in evacuating hundreds of thousands of artifacts from museums around the country to safety in Damascus. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

With jihadis at the door, Syrians rush to rescue history

By MAEVA BAMBUCK - Associated Press

In this Monday, March 7, 2016 photo, a man fills a tanker for Syrian refugees with water in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, near Mafraq, Jordan. Colorful murals of beaches, forests and cities are meant to boost the morale of Syrian refugees in this desert camp, but the effort spent on painting dozens of cheerful scenes in recent weeks also reinforces a painful message to the displaced: a return home is a long way off. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Syria refugees fear long exile after 5 years of war

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

Syrian soldiers keep watch on a roof in a town on the outskirts of Damascus that is hosting large numbers of refugees from other areas of the besieged country. (Associated Press)

Syria cease-fire reduces carnage, returns some normalcy to hard-hit areas

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, photo, residents talk to reporters in the besieged town of Madaya, northwest of Damascus, Syria. Aid convoys reached three besieged villages on Monday — Madaya, near Damascus, where U.N. humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien said about 400 people need to be evacuated immediately to receive life-saving treatment for medical conditions, malnourishment and starvation, and the Shiite villages of Foua and Kfarya in northern Syria. (AP Photo)

Cease-fire brings relative quiet to Syria despite breaches

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press