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Militants of the al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham organization stand in front of a destroyed house in Atareb, Syria, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. The man known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al Sham, is trying hard to distance his group from its al-Qaida origins, spreading a message of pluralism and religious tolerance.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Syria’s main insurgent group seeks to move away from al-Qaida past, get off Western terrorism lists

By Ghaith Alsayed and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

FILE - An aerial view shows a large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province, Syria, April 19, 2020. Syrians in the last major rebel stronghold in the war-ton country are living in fear of the effects of Russia closing down the only border crossing into the northwestern province of Idlib. Aid agencies warn that if Russia vetoes the resolution that would maintain two border crossing points from Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid, food would be depleted in Idlib and surrounding areas by September, 2022, putting the lives of some 4.1 million people, at risk. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)

Syrians fear effects of Russia blocking aid to rebel area

By Ghaith Al—Sayed and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

A general view of Karama camp for internally displaced Syrians, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, by the village of Atma, Idlib province, Syria. Fallout from the 2-month-old war in Ukraine is worsening long-term humanitarian crises elsewhere, including in Syria. (AP Photo/Omar Albam, File)

U.S. strike kills terror leader in Syria

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

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

A medic works with corona patientsin a hospital in Idlib, Syria, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020. At one of two coronavirus hospitals in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province, overwhelmed medical staff tend to patients drifting in and out of consciousness. As confirmed case numbers rise to as many as 500 a day, so does the demand for beds in the intensive care ward (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Virus threat ‘a new terror’ in Syria’s scarred Idlib region

By GHAITH ALSAYED and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Airstrikes on northwest Syria after blast wounds 3 Russians

Associated Press

Syria activists: After 3 months, Russian strikes hit Idlib

Associated Press

In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, women walk in a neighborhood heavily damaged by airstrikes in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

‘There is nothing now’: Syrians in Idlib fear end nearing

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands during a news conference after their talks in the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 5, 2020. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, say they have reached agreements that could end fighting in northwestern Syria. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool)

A tense Russia-Turkey truce in Syria halts bombing campaign

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Turkish backed fighter prepare to go to the frontline in the Syrian province of Idlib, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020. The fighting in Idlib led to the collapse of a fragile cease-fire that was brokered by Turkey and Russia in 2018. Turkey supports the Syrian rebels, while Russia has heavily backed the Syrian government's campaign to retake the area which is the last rebel stronghold in Syria. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Rebels shoot down Syrian helicopter as fighting intensifies

By BASSEM MROUE and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Syrian rebel drive toward the government positions near the village of Nerab, in Idlib province, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. Turkey sent more reinforcements into northwestern Syria on Thursday, setting up new positions in an attempt to stop a Syrian government offensive on the last rebel stronghold in the war-torn country, state media and opposition activists said. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syrian advance sends hundreds of thousands fleeing in Idlib

By SARAH EL DEEB and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

This photo released by the opposition Syrian Civil Defense rescue group, also known as White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Civil Defense workers searching in a house where six members of the same family were killed in shelling of the village of Bdama, in Idlib province, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. Airstrikes and artillery shelling killed at least 11 civilians including six members of the same family amid intensified violence in rebel-held areas of northwestern Syria, opposition activists said Tuesday. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Airstrikes, shelling kill 16 in Syria’s rebel-held areas

Associated Press

Rival UN resolutions on Syria cease-fire go down to defeat

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian White Helmet civil defense workers search for victims from under the rubble of a destroyed building that hit by airstrikes, in Deir al-Sharqi village, in Idlib province, Syria, Saturday, Aug 17, 2019. Syrian activists and a war monitor say airstrikes have pounded the southern edge of a rebel stronghold in the country's northwest, in one instance killing seven including children. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Airstrikes halt Turkish convoy on road in Syria, activists say

By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Smoke rises in the background from bombardment around the area as fighters with the Free Syrian army drive their pick-up truck, left, past a Turkey Armed Forces convoy, at a highway between Maaret al-Numan and Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province, Syria, Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. The Turkish Defense Ministry says airstrikes have targeted a Turkish military convoy in Syria, killing at least three civilians and wounding 12 others in Monday's attack that occurred while the convoy was heading toward a Turkish observation post in the rebel-held stronghold of Idlib. (Murat Kibritoglu/DHA via AP)

Airstrikes target Turkish convoy in Syria, raising tensions

By ALBERT AJI and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, forth right, prays on the first day of the the Eid al-Adha, at Afram Mosque in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019. State news agency SANA showed Assad attending the payers early Sunday at Afram Mosque along with top officials including the prime minister and the country's grand mufti. (SANA via AP)

Syrian troops capture key village in rebel-held Idlib

Associated Press

FILE -- In this Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018 file photo, fighters with the Free Syrian army patrol the outskirts of the northern town of Jisr al-Shughur, Syria, west of the city of Idlib. n two months of intensive airstrikes and bombardments on the rebel-controlled province of Idlib, Syrian government forces and their Russian allies have failed to make progress against battle-hardened insurgents. (Ugur Can/DHA via AP, File)

Stalled Idlib campaign shows limits of Syrian, Russian power

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2019 file photo, provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows smoke rising after Syrian government and Russian airstrikes that hit the town of al-Habeet, southern Idlib, Syria. The violence raging once again in the northwestern province of Idlib, Syria's last rebel-held bastion, is putting Turkish-Russian relations to the test. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File)

Russia halts UN Security Council statement on Syria’s Idlib

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

FILE - This September 14, 2018 file photo, protesters wave revolutionary Syrian and Turkish flags as they attend a demonstration against the Syrian government offensive in Idlib, in Maarat al-Numan, south of Idlib, Syria. After eight months of relative calm, Idlib is once again a theater for bloody military operations as Syrian government troops, backed by Russia, push their way into the rebel-held enclave in a widening offensive. The violence in May 2019 threatens to completely unravel a crumbling cease-fire agreement reached between Turkey and Russia last September. (Ugur Can/DHA via AP, File)

Turkey calls for end to Syrian forces offensive on Idlib

Associated Press

This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows a man who was injured in attack on a market receiving treatment at a hospital, in the village of Ras el-Ain, in the northwestern province of Idlib, Syria, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. Opposition activists say government forces have intensified their bombardment of rebel-held towns and villages in northwestern Syria where several people were killed. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Syrian troops capture northwestern village from rebels

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press