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A health worker checks boxes of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines inside a truck, that were delivered to Idlib through a border crossing with Turkey, in Bab Al-Hawa, northwestern Syria, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Syria's last rebel-held enclave received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, with a refrigerated truck offloading over 50,000 of United Nations-secured jabs in the overcrowded province. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

First batch of COVID vaccines lands in opposition-held Syria

By GHAITH ALSAYED - Associated Press

FILE - This Friday May 5, 2017 file photo shows the headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, Netherlands. An investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog found “reasonable grounds to believe” that a Syrian air force military helicopter dropped a chlorine cylinder on a Syrian town in 2018, sickening 12 people, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Monday, April 12, 2021.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Majority of nations approve suspending Syria’s OPCW rights

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FILE - In this April 13, 2016 file photo, a Syrian election official waits for voters at a polling station with posters of President Bashar Assad during the parliamentary election in Damascus, Syria. On Sunday, April 18, 2021, Syria’s parliament speaker announced that presidential elections in the war-ravaged country will be held May 26. The election is widely expected to give Assad a fourth seven-year term. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

First woman ever applies to run for president of Syria

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 9, 2012 file photo, Michel Kilo, a Syrian opposition leader and writer, speaks to the media after a meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister, in Moscow, Russia. Kilo, a prominent exiled Syrian opposition figure died Monday, April 19, 2021, of complications from COVID-19 in a hospital in Paris where he lived. Kilo was 81. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Veteran Syria opposition figure Michel Kilo dies of COVID-19

By DALAL MAWAD - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 13, 2016 file photo, a Syrian election official waits for voters at a polling station with posters of President Bashar Assad during the parliamentary election in Damascus, Syria. On Sunday, April 18, 2021, Syria’s parliament speaker announced that presidential elections in the war-ravaged country will be held May 26. The election is widely expected to give Assad a fourth seven-year term. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Parliament speaker: Syria presidential election May 26

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Syria devalues its local currency against the U.S. dollar

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FILE - This Friday May 5, 2017 file photo shows the headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, Netherlands. An investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog found “reasonable grounds to believe” that a Syrian air force military helicopter dropped a chlorine cylinder on a Syrian town in 2018, sickening 12 people, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Monday, April 12, 2021.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Syria rejects watchdog investigation into 2018 gas attack

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Kurds impose 10-day curfew in NE Syria amid coronavirus wave

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Syria: Israeli strikes near capital Damascus wound 4 troops

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Russia and West spar over vote to punish Syria over weapons

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this March 31, 2019 file photo, women speak to guards at the gate that closes off the section for foreign families who lived in the Islamic State's so-called caliphate, at Al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria. Killings have surged inside the camp with at least 20 men and women killed in January, 2021. They are believed to be the victims of IS militants trying to enforce their power inside the camp housing 62,000 people, mostly women and children. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Pentagon ramps up attacks on resurgent ISIS: ‘It is not defeated’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Syria to close schools and universities over virus surge

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, file photo, an Iraqi soldier watches smoke rising after an airstrike by US-led International coalition warplanes against ISIS, on the border between Syria and Iraq in Qaim, Anbar province, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) ** FILE **

‘Report ISIS in your area’: U.S. coalition urges Iraqis, Syrians to call hotline, report extremists

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this photo released on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, heads a cabinet meeting, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Assad and his wife have recovered from COVID-19 and returned to their regular duties on Tuesday, three weeks after they had tested positive for the coronavirus, the president's office said. (Syrian Presidency Facebook page via AP)

Syria says Assad, his wife have recovered from coronavirus

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell listens to a question during an online joint news conference with UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock at the conclusion of a conference 'Supporting the future of Syria and the region' at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool)

Donors pledge more than $6 billion to tackle Syria’s crisis

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a virtual meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres from the State Department in Washington, on Monday, March 29, 2021. (Leah Millis/Pool via AP)

US urges UN to stop making aid to Syria a political issue

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 19, 2020 file photo, shows a large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province, Syria. The humanitarian situation across war-ravaged Syria is worsening. But it’s been getting tougher every year to raise money from global donors to help people affected by the country’s protracted humanitarian crisis. The aid community is bracing for significant shortfalls ahead of a donor conference that starts Monday, March 29, 2021, in Brussels. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)

Pleas for more aid to Syria: ‘We don’t have nearly enough’

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2019 file photo, a woman carries her baby at a screening center run by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, outside Baghouz, Syria. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians face continued displacement each coming year if the conflict continues and economic conditions further deteriorate, the Norwegian Refugee Council, a prominent humanitarian organization said Monday, March 8, 2021. The Syrian conflict, which marks 10 years later this month, has resulted in the largest displacement crisis since World War II, the council said. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

US-backed Syrian forces raid camp of IS families, arrest 9

By SARAH EL DEEB and LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Beleaguered Syria suffers also due to Suez Canal closure

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A woman flashes a victory sign as she receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a nationwide vaccination campaign, at the Saint George Hospital, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Lebanon launched its inoculation campaign after receiving the first batch of the vaccine — 28,500 doses from Brussels with more expected to arrive in the coming weeks. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Syria to send Lebanon emergency oxygen supply for hospitals

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