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Israel missile hits car in Syria after sniper attack attempt

Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 28, 2020 file photo, a Turkish military convoy moves in the east of Idlib, Syria. Syria’s official news agency said Sunday, March 1, 2020, that two of its warplane were shot down by Turkish forces inside northwest Syria, amid a military escalation there that's led to growing direct clashes between Turkish and Syrian forces. SANA said the jets were targeted over the Idlib region, and that the four pilots ejected with parachutes and landed safely. (AP Photo, File)

Turkey’s Erdogan hopes to broker Syria truce in Moscow

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2019 file photo, candles are lit on the graves of people killed during Syrian war, in the town of Qamishli, north Syria. Investigators for the U.N.-backed Human Rights Council said on Monday, March 2, 2020, that they had found evidence of war crimes in Syria committed by nearly all sides in the conflict during the second half of last year and into January. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

Report: War crimes committed by almost all sides in Syria

Associated Press

Greek soldiers guard at Kastanies border gate at the Greek-Turkish border, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country's borders with Europe were open Saturday, making good on a longstanding threat to let refugees into the continent as thousands of migrants gathered at the frontier with Greece. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Turkey, Syria fighting escalates; refugees mass at EU border

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and ANDREW WILKS - Associated Press

Thousands bury Hezbollah fighters killed in Syria’s Idlib

By HASSAN AMMAR - Associated Press

FILE - This file frame grab from video released on July 22, 2017 and provided by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows Hezbollah fighters advancing up a hill during clashes with al-Qaida-linked militants in an area on the Lebanon-Syria border. Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group lost at least eight fighters in northwestern Syria in fighting against insurgents and airstrikes by the Turkey's air force following the death of at least 33 Turkish soldiers earlier this week, a Syrian opposition war monitor and the militant group said Saturday. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP, File)

Eight fighters with Lebanon’s Hezbollah killed in Syria

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A Turkish military convoy drive in the east of Idlib, Syria, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. NATO envoys were holding emergency talks Friday at the request of Turkey following the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in northeast Syria, as scores of migrants gathered at Turkey's border with Greece seeking entry into Europe.(AP Photo)

Turkey opens gates into Europe as migrants gather on border

By ANDREW WILKS and COSTAS KANTOURIS - Associated Press

UN chief urges Syria cease-fire but Russia and China oppose

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Turkish backed Syrian rebels enter the own of Saraqeb, in Idlib province, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. Turkey-backed Syrian opposition fighters Thursday retook a strategic northwestern town iof Saraqeb, opposition activists said, and cut off the key highway linking the capital, Damascus, with the northern city of Aleppo, days after the government reopened it for the first time since 2012. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Turkey threatens Europe with refugees after 33 troops killed

By Mehmet Guzel and Andrew Wilks - Associated Press

Turkish backed Syrian fighter fires at a frontline near the town of Saraqib in Idlib province, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Syrian government forces have captured dozens of villages, including major rebel strongholds, over the past few days in the last opposition-held area in the country's northwest. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syrian opposition fighters retake key town from government

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Western nations demand immediate cease-fire in Syria’s Idlib

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Syria: Israel drone strike kills civilian near Golan Heights

Associated Press

Defense Secretary Mark Esper, left, accompanied by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, right, speaks at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Pentagon has ‘no intent’ to deploy troops to Syria-Turkey border amid ongoing clashes

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters, in Izmir, Turkey, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. A Turkish soldier was killed in Syria's northwest Idlib province, state-run Anadolu news agency reported Saturday. He was at least the 16th member of the Turkish military to die in February during an offensive by Syrian government forces. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

Syrian troops press ahead with campaign as strikes kill 16

By SUZAN FRASER and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Turkish backed rebel fighters take positions near the village of Neirab in Idlib province, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. Two Turkish soldiers were killed Thursday by an airstrike in northwestern Syria, according to Turkey's Defense Ministry, following a large-scale attack by Ankara-backed opposition forces that targeted Syrian government troops. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syria reopens highway linking largest cities after 8 years

By ALBERT AJI and ANDREW WILKS - Associated Press

Turkish backed rebel fighters fire heavy machine gun near the village of Neirab in Idlib province, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. Two Turkish soldiers were killed Thursday by an airstrike in northwestern Syria, according to Turkey's Defense Ministry, following a large-scale attack by Ankara-backed opposition forces that targeted Syrian government troops. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Erdogan urges Putin to rein in Syria, end human crisis

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2020, file photo Turkish soldiers fire a missile at Syrian government position in the province of Idlib, Syria. Syria’s civil war has long provided a free-for-all battlefield for proxy fighters. But in its ninth year, the war is drawing major foreign actors into direct conflict, with the threat of all-out confrontations becoming a real possibility. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)

Syrian war pulls in major foreign actors, increasing tension

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

UN chief calls for immediate cease-fire in Syria’s northwest

Associated Press

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses to his ruling party's legislator at parliament, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. Erdogan said on Wednesday that time was running up for Syrian government forces to retreat from Syria's northwestern Idlib province and warned of an &quot;imminent&quot; Turkish intervention to force the retreat.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkish soldiers killed in Syria amid threats of escalation

By SUZAN FRASER and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Syrian President Bashar Assad listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. Putin has traveled to Syria to meet with President Bashar Assad, a key Iranian ally. The rare visit Tuesday comes amid soaring tensions between Iran and the United States following the U.S. drone strike last week that killed a top Iranian general who led forces supporting Assad in Syria's civil war. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Symbolic Aleppo flight comes as civilians suffer in Syria

By ALBERT AJI and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press