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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, firefighters put out a fire at the Homs Oil Refinery, in the central province of Homs, Syria, Sunday, May. 9, 2021. The fire came amid a series of mysterious attacks on vessels and oil facilities in Syria over the past months. The war-torn country has been suffering from fuel shortages in recent months. (SANA via AP)

Fire at Syrian oil refinery extinguished after leakage

Associated Press

A Syrian displaced man Mohammed Zakaria, 53, who fled his Syrian hometown of Homs in 2012, prepares a hot drink as he sits inside his tent with his wife, left, at a refugee camp, in Bar Elias, in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa valley, Friday, March 5, 2021. Nearly ten years later, the family still hasn't gone back and Zakaria is among millions of Syrians unlikely to return in the foreseeable future, even as they face deteriorating living conditions abroad. The Syrian conflict has resulted in the largest displacement crisis since World War II. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

For Syrians, a decade of displacement with no end in sight

By FAY ABUELGASIM - Associated Press

FILE - This April 1, 2018 file photo, shows a cross that lies in the rubble of a destroyed church that was blown up by Islamic State militants in 2015, in the deserted village of Tal Jazeera, northern Syria. The Qatar-based Syrian Network for Human Rights, a Syrian war monitor associated with the opposition said in its report Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, that over 120 Christian places of worship have been damaged or destroyed by all sides in the country’s eight-year conflict. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Report: Over 120 Syrian churches damaged by war since 2011

Associated Press

This photo posted and provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Civil Defense workers searching for victims under the rubble after an airstrike by Syrian government forces hit the village of Ehsim, in Jabal al-Zawiya, some 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of the town of Maarat al-Numan in Idlib, Syria, Monday, June 3, 2019. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said on Monday that Syrian troops had reached Qassaibyeh, a village deep within the last rebel stronghold in the northwest province of Idlib, after intense clashes with militants. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Syrian soccer goalie who became rebel icon dies in battle

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Syrian man suspected of IS beheadings held in Hungary

Associated Press

This image released by Arrow Media shows photographer Paul Conroy, left, with war correspondent Marie Colvin in Misrata, Libya. A new documentary recounts in searing detail the final days of Colvin, who was killed in shelling from Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces in 2012 in the city of Homs, where she was documenting civilian suffering. (Paul Conroy/Arrow Media via AP)

Film captures final days of legendary war reporter

By JOCELYN NOVECK - Associated Press

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

In this May 16, 2012, file photo, a choir performs a hymn during the memorial service for Marie Colvin, the Sunday Times war correspondent who was killed in Homs, Syria on Feb. 22, at St Martin-in-the-Fields church in central London. Syria President Bashar Assad’s forces targeted Colvin and then celebrated after they learned their rockets had killed her, according to a sworn statement a former Syrian intelligence officer made in a wrongful death suit filed by her relatives. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Marie Colvin lawsuit: Slain reporter’s family says Syrian forces targeted her

By Deb Riechmann - Associated Press

This photo provided by Azaz Media Office, a Syrian anti-government activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian citizens and civil defense workers gathering next of burning car at the explosion scene, in Azaz town, north Syria, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Syrian activists say a large explosion in a northern town along the border with Turkey has killed and wounded several people. (Azaz Media Office via AP)

Russia-backed Syrian safe zones plan goes into effect

By SARAH EL DEEB and LYNN BERRY - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo released on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows warplanes inside the Kweiras air base, east of Aleppo, Syria. A U.S. missile attack on Friday, April 7, 2017 has caused heavy damage to one of Syria's biggest and most strategic air bases, used to launch warplanes to strike opposition-held areas in central, northern and southern Syria. (SANA via AP, File)

US strike on Syrian air base has limited impact on Assad

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, April 7, 2017. The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles in fiery retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/U.S. Navy via AP)

The Latest: US calls for transparency in UN Syria summit

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In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Ross (DDG 71) fires a tomahawk land attack missile Friday, April 7, 2017, from the Mediterranean Sea. The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles in fiery retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Robert S. Price/U.S. Navy via AP)

U.S. launches missile strike on a Syrian military airfield

By Carlo Muñoz and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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

The Latest: Syrian opposition hints govt behind Homs attack

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, right, attends a meeting of Intra-Syria peace talks with Syrian government delegation at Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017. (Pierre Albouy/Pool Photo via AP)

Deadly insurgent attack in Homs weighs on UN-led Syria talks

By JAMEY KEATEN and DOMINIQUE SOGUEL - Associated Press

In this picture taken Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, a car drives through a devastated part of the old city of Homs, Syria. Some 1,200 rebels and civilians, many of them wounded and starving from a yearlong siege, withdrew from the last remaining strongholds in the ancient heart of Homs in May 2014, surrendering to President Bashar Assad a bloodstained city once dubbed the &#8220;capital of the revolution.&#8221; (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

State Department’s cease-fire hotline: Syrian journalist calls in, operator can’t speak Arabic

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 9, 2015 file photo made from video footage provided by the Russian Defense Ministry, a Russian Su-34 bomber drops bombs on a target. A new report by a human rights watchdog group accuses Russia of using cluster munitions and unguided bombs on civilian areas in Syria in attacks that it says have killed hundreds of people. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Accusations grow against Russia over Syria civilian killings

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Iraqi security forces and allied Shiite militiamen celebrate March 31, 2015, as they hold a flag of the Islamic State group they captured in Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi forces battled Islamic State militants holed up in downtown Tikrit, going house to house Tuesday in search of snipers and booby traps, and the prime minister said security forces had reached the heart of the city. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Despite Russian and allied efforts, ISIS takes town of Maheen in Homs province

By L. Todd Wood

U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin head into a bilateral meeting Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Putin ignores Obama as Russia launches first airstrikes in Syria

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times