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Syria, UAE leaders discuss coronavirus, a thaw in relations

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Turkey using Syria to attack Kurds

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - In this, Sunday, March 15, 2020 file photo, a medical staff member works on setting up an isolation room at a coronavirus quarantine ward at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. In conflict zones across the Middle East, the specter of the coronavirus looms large. Authorities in Yemen, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and the Gaza Strip warn that health care systems gutted by years of war and unrest have left millions of people doubly vulnerable to the pandemic. For most people, the virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Ravaged by war, Middle Eastern countries face a new scourge

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

Illustration on corona outbreaks in Lebanon by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Iran’s Hezbollah virus infects Lebanon while attacking the world

By Clifford D. May

This Tuesday, March. 10, 2020 photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows the road that links Syria's coastal region with the northern city of Aleppo, in Latakia province, Syria. The reopening of the M4 highway that has been closed since 2012 is part of a deal reached earlier this month between Turkey and Russia that stopped a Russian-backed government offensive on the northwestern province of Idlib, the last rebel stronghold in the country. (SANA via AP)

Turkey-Russia patrols start amid protests on Syrian highway

By ANDREW WILKS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2020 file photo, An honour guard carries the coffin of Muhammed Ali Ozer, one of the 36 Turkish soldiers killed on Thursday in a Syrian army attack in the Idlib area of Syria, in Hatay, Turkey. In a world gripped by a pandemic, global unrest and a fast-moving news cycle, it can be difficult to remember that the war in Syria is still happening. (AP Photo/ File)

Syrian war, rumbling into 10th year, still has global impact

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the members of his ruling party in Parliament, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Erdogan vowed on Wednesday to respond with greater military force to action by Syria's government that would break a fragile cease-fire in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, that was brokered last week. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkish, Russian troops to start Syria patrols on Sunday

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In this Sept. 22, 2014 file photo, members of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard march during an annual military parade at the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini, outside Tehran, Iran. On Monday, April 8, 2019, the Trump administration designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a “foreign terrorist organization” in an unprecedented move against a national armed force. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps went from being a domestic security force with origins in the 1979 Islamic Revolution to a transnational fighting force. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Farhad Dabirian, Iran Revolutionary Guard commander, killed in Syria: Report

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Report: Iran Revolutionary Guard commander killed in Syria

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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

Migrants climb a fence installed by Turkish authorities near the Turkish-Greek border in Pazarkule on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. Greek authorities fired tear gas and stun grenades Wednesday morning to repulse a push by migrants to cross its land border from Turkey, as pressure continued along its frontier after Turkey said its own border with Europe was open to whoever wanted to cross. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Five years on, ill-prepared EU sees migrants on its borders

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

Israeli warplanes strike targets in central Syria

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In this Jan. 8, 2020, file photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, talk during a ceremony in Istanbul for the inauguration of the TurkStream pipeline. A summit meeting between the Turkish and Russian leaders scheduled for Thursday, March 5, 2020, may be the last chance to work out a deal that avoids a calamity in Syria's northwest. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Russian, Turkish presidents meet as Syria violence continues

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian White Helmet civil defense workers carry a victim next to a destroyed house that was hit by Russian airstrikes, in Maaret Musreen village, in Idlib province, Syria, Thursday, March 5, 2020. An airstrike on a rebel-held village in northwestern Syria early Thursday. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Airstrike in northwest Syria kills 15 ahead of Moscow summit

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this Jan. 8, 2020, file photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, talk during a ceremony in Istanbul for the inauguration of the TurkStream pipeline. A summit meeting between the Turkish and Russian leaders scheduled for Thursday, March 5, 2020, may be the last chance to work out a deal that avoids a calamity in Syria's northwest. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Russia-Turkey talks a last chance to avert Idlib calamity

By SUZAN FRASER and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Sunday, March 1, 2020, Turkey-backed opposition fighters help a fellow fighter wounded in fighting with Syrian government forces and their allies in Sarmin, south of Idlib, Syria. Fighting on the ground in Idlib continued Monday, with heavy clashes between Syrian government forces and Turkish-backed fighters. (AP Photo)

Syrian, Turkish armies engage in new deadly clashes in Idlib

By SUZAN FRASER and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Legislators push each other as a brawl breaks out in Turkey's parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, March 4, 2020. A fight broke out in the Turkish parliament between lawmakers from opposing parties during a tense discussion about Turkey's military involvement in northwest Syria. (AP Photo)

Brawl erupts in Turkey’s parliament over Syria involvement

Associated Press

In this photo taken on Sunday, March 1, 2020, Turkey-backed opposition fighters help a fellow fighter wounded in fighting with Syrian government forces and their allies in Sarmin, south of Idlib, Syria. Fighting on the ground in Idlib continued Monday, with heavy clashes between Syrian government forces and Turkish-backed fighters. (AP Photo)

U.S. to provide $108 million in humanitarian aid as the threat of Turkey-Syria war looms

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

UN: World’s biggest humanitarian crisis in Syria northwest

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Sunday, March 1, 2020, Turkey-backed opposition fighters transport a fellow fighter for treatment after he was wounded in fighting with Syrian government forces and their allies in Sarmin, south of Idlib, Syria. Fighting on the ground in Idlib continued Monday, with heavy clashes between Syrian government forces and Turkish-backed fighters. (AP Photo)

Turkey downs Syrian fighter jet in northwest Idlib

By SUZAN FRASER and ALBERT AJI - Associated Press