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Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a plenary session at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Turkey’s Erdogan says he remains hopeful about reconciliation with Syria

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows Israeli forces digging along the Alpha Line separating the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from a demilitarized zone in Syria patrolled by United Nations forces on Nov. 5, 2024. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

U.N. force: Israel building on so-called Alpha Line with Syria saw ‘severe violations’ of cease-fire

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

People carry their luggage as they cross into Syria on foot, through a crater caused by Israeli airstrikes aiming to block Beirut-Damascus highway at the Masnaa crossing, in the eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Officials in Lebanon and Syria see exodus as opportunity

By Abby Sewell - Associated Press

Armed al-Shabab fighters ride on pickup trucks as they prepare to travel into the city, just outside the capital Mogadishu, in Somalia on Dec. 8, 2008. The al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab claimed an attack that killed three Emirati troops and a Bahraini military officer on a training mission at a military base in the Somali capital, authorities said Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Next president’s problem: ‘Forever wars’ a simmering issue with big stakes for Harris or Trump

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, speaks during a news conference in Hassakeh, Syria, Nov. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, file)

Kurdish leader in Syria calls for diplomatic solutions to conflict with Turkey

By Hogir Abdo - Associated Press

Emergency and security teams are deployed outside of Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. at the outskirts of Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (Yavuz Ozden/Dia Photo via AP)

Turkey strikes Kurdish militant targets in Syria and Iraq for a second day

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Supporters react before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Findlay Toyota Arena Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, in Prescott Valley, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Trump couldn’t pronounce ‘Assyrians.’ The community is happy to be in the spotlight

By Jonathan J. Cooper - Associated Press

A destroyed building at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburbs, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel strikes Houthi targets in Yemen

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A motorist passes by a flag of the Islamic State group in central Rawah, 175 miles (281 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, on July 22, 2014. The U.S. Central Command said Wednesday, July 17, 2024, that the Islamic State group is trying "to reconstitute” as the number of attacks in Syria and Iraq is on track to double those of the previous year. (AP Photo, File)

U.S. airstrikes on Syria kill 37 militants affiliated with extremist groups

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Journalists walk in the rubble of destroyed buildings after Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes, in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, July 20, 2006. (AP Photo/File)

Israeli strikes in Syria leave 14 dead and more than 40 wounded, Syrian state media says

By Albert Aji - Associated Press

A motorist passes by a flag of the Islamic State group in central Rawah, 175 miles (281 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, on July 22, 2014. The U.S. Central Command said Wednesday, July 17, 2024, that the Islamic State group is trying "to reconstitute” as the number of attacks in Syria and Iraq is on track to double those of the previous year. (AP Photo, File)

U.S., Syrian troops capture ISIS leader who helped prisoners escape

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Lebanese citizens watch Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speak on television as black smoke rises following Israeli attacks on a Hezbollah stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, on July 16, 2006. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)

Some Lebanese who fear war is coming have an unusual backup plan: Moving to Syria

By Abby Sewell - Associated Press

Islamic State militants pass a checkpoint bearing the group's trademark black flag in the village of Maryam Begg in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

U.S., Iraqi forces raid targeting Islamic State militants kills 15; 7 U.S. troops hurt

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Girls walk through the halls of the children center where they live, which provides a variety of activities for children, northeastern Syria, June 26, 2024. Children at the center include some born to formerly captured Yazidi women. While the Yazidi community has embraced mothers kidnapped by Islamic State group militants, the fate of children born to the women after their capture proved much more contentious. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

She became a mother after Islamic State captivity. A decade on, Yazidi community shuns her children

By Mariam Fam and Salar Salim - Associated Press

FILE - Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani speaks while meeting with members of the G7, on July 11, 2024, during the NATO summit in Washington. Italy plans to send an ambassador back to Syria after a decade-long absence in a diplomatic move that could spark divisions among European Union allies, the country's foreign minister said. Speaking in front relevant parliamentary committees Thursday, Antonio Tajani announced Rome’s intention to re-establish diplomatic ties with Damascus to prevent Russia from monopolizing diplomatic efforts in Syria. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Italy plans to return an ambassador to Syria to reflect new diplomatic developments, minister says

By Giada Zampano - Associated Press

Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 24, 2024. (Valery Sharifulin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia’s Putin hosts Syria’s Assad in the Kremlin as tensions rise in the Middle East

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In this photo provided by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Syrian President Bashar Assad chairs his deletions during the Arab summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Friday, May 19, 2023. Syrians were voting for members of a new parliament in an election on Monday, July 15, 2024, that was expected to hold few surprises but could pave the way for a constitutional amendment to extend the term of President Bashar Assad.(Saudi Press Agency via AP, File)

Syrians vote for their next parliament, which may consider allowing Assad to extend his rule

By Albert Aji and Abby Sewell - Associated Press

Syrians cross into their country from the Turkish crossing point of Cilvegozu, in Reyhanli, southeastern Turkey, on Feb. 18, 2023. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian President Bashar Assad have recently signaled that they are interested in restoring diplomatic ties that have been ruptured for more than a decade. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

A rapprochement between Syria and Turkey is on the table. Here’s what it might mean for the region

By Abby Sewell and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

FILE - Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 20, 2013. Ten years after the Islamic State group declared its caliphate in large parts of Iraq and Syria, the extremists now control no land, have lost many prominent founding leaders and are mostly away from the world news headlines. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

A decade after the Islamic State group declared a caliphate, it’s defeated but remains lethal

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this photo released on Nov. 9, 2019, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks in Damascus, Syria. The Paris appeals court has decided on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, to uphold an arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar Assad that France issued last year for alleged complicity in war crimes during Syria's civil war. (SANA via AP, File)

Paris court upholds validity of France’s arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar Assad

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