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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, drives the Aurus, or Cortege, limousine during his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi at the Sochi Autodrom circuit in Sochi, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

The Latest: Putin: Iran pullout contingent on Syria security

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United Nations special envoy Staffan de Mistura speaks at a Security Council meeting, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 at U.N. headquarters. He said he will be making an intensive effort to get agreement on a committee to draft a new constitution for Syria before he steps down at the end of November. De Mistura announced he is departing for &quot;purely, purely personal reasons&quot; after four years and four months in one of the toughest U.N. jobs after telling the Security Council that objections by the Syrian government are still holding up the launch of the committee. (Eskinder Debebe/UN via AP)

UN Syria envoy to try to move on constitution before leaving

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this undated file photo released online in the summer of 2014 on a militant social media account, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, militants of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in a convoy on a road leading to Iraq, in Raqqa, Syria. With Islamic State's near total defeat on the battle field, the extremist group has reverted to what it was before its spectacular series of conquests in 2014 _ a shadowy terror network that targets vulnerable civilian populations and exploits state weaknesses to incite on sectarian strife. But a recent surge in false claims of responsibility for attacks also signals that the group is struggling to stay relevant after losing its proto-state and its dominance of the international news agenda. (Militant photo via AP, File)

ISIS ‘far from defeated’ despite territorial losses, Joint Chiefs chairman warns

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

An Israeli soldier opens the border gates as an UN vehicle enters Syria in Quneitra crossing in the Israeli controlled Golan, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. The crossing between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights reopened for U.N. observers who had left the area four years ago because of the fighting there. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Syria reopens 2 crossings with Jordan, Israeli-held Golan

By Albert Aji and Omar Akour - Associated Press

An Israeli soldier opens the border gates as an UN vehicle enters Syria in Quneitra crossing in the Israeli controlled Golan, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. The crossing between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights reopened for U.N. observers who had left the area four years ago because of the fighting there. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

The Latest: Israeli military welcomes reopening of crossing

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Syria and Jordan agree to reopen vital crossing

By ALBERT AJI and OMAR AKOUR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, July 27, 2017, a U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighter runs in front of a damaged building as he crosses a street on the front line, in Raqqa city, Syria. With Islamic State's near total defeat on the battle field, the extremist group has reverted to what it was before its spectacular series of conquests in 2014 _ a shadowy terror network that targets vulnerable civilian populations and exploits state weaknesses to incite on sectarian strife. But a recent surge in false claims of responsibility for attacks also signals that the group is struggling to stay relevant after losing its proto-state and its dominance of the international news agenda. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

IS militants abduct scores of civilians in eastern Syria

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a Turkey-Africa business forum in Istanbul, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

The Latest: UN food agency prepared for Syria refugees

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a Turkey-Africa business forum in Istanbul, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

Rights group criticizes US-led coalition for Raqqa deaths

By HIBA DLEWATI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018 file photo, fighters with the Free Syrian army eat in a cave where they live, on the outskirts of the northern town of Jisr al-Shughur, Syria, west of the city of Idlib. Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency news agency said Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, that Syrian rebels have finished withdrawing all their heavy weapons from the front lines in the northwestern province of Idlib. The move was part of a deal reached between Russia and Turkey to demilitarize the front lines between Syrian government forces and the opposition in and around the province. Idlib is the last major rebel stronghold in Syria. (Ugur Can/DHA via AP, File)

WFP chief says agency preparing for wave of Idlib refugees

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file image posted on Monday, June 30, 2014, by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, fighters from the Islamic State group parade in Raqqa, north Syria. With Islamic State's near total defeat on the battle field, the extremist group has reverted to what it was before its spectacular series of conquests in 2014 _ a shadowy terror network that targets vulnerable civilian populations and exploits state weaknesses to incite on sectarian strife. But a recent surge in false claims of responsibility for attacks also signals that the group is struggling to stay relevant after losing its proto-state and its dominance of the international news agenda. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, File)

IS reverting to insurgency tactics after losing caliphate

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Kosovo detains man suspected of joining Syria terror groups

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FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018 file photo, fighters with the Free Syrian army exit a cave where they live, in the outskirts of the northern town of Jisr al-Shughur, Syria, west of the city of Idlib. Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency news agency said Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, that Syrian rebels have finished withdrawing all their heavy weapons from the front lines in the northwestern province of Idlib. The move was part of a deal reached between Russia and Turkey to demilitarize the front lines between Syrian government forces and the opposition in and around the province. Idlib is the last major rebel stronghold in Syria. (Ugur Can/DHA via AP, File)

Syrian president grants general amnesty to army deserters

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

A woman checks a statue of a local ruler dating back to the first or second century A.D., that was recovered from an area formerly held by insurgents, that is on display at an exhibition at the Opera House, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018. The items on display are some of the roughly 20,000 that officials estimate have been recovered since the country's war began in 2011. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Syria displays artifacts retrieved from rebel-held areas

By MAGGIE HYDE - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018, photo, a Syrian soldier who lost his leg while fighting in Syria's war, walks on prosthetic leg during a physical therapy session at the Ahmad Hamish Martyr hospital, in Damascus, Syria. Many Syrian government soldiers, after years of intense fighting, now face a new reality of learning to live without one or more of their limbs, or with other serious disability. The hospital manufactures 60 prosthetic limbs a day, reflecting the high demand in a nation wracked by a bloody civil war. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Wounded Syrian soldiers learn to live with war disabilities

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Syrian president says Russia-Turkey Idlib deal ‘temporary’

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In this Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, photo, young Druze armed men, who carry weapons to defend their village from Islamic State attack, patrol the village of Rami in the southern province of Sweida, Syria. Three months after a stunning Islamic State attack on a southeastern corner of Syria in which more than 200 people were killed and 30 women and children abducted, tensions are boiling over, and young men are taking up arms. It is a stark change for a province that managed to stay on the sidelines of the seven-year Syrian war and where most villagers worked grazing livestock over surrounding hills. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

In Syria’s Sweida, young men take up arms to defend villages

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

German authorities apologize for mistaken jailing of Syrian

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Turkey says won’t leave Syria until elections are held there

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As Syria urges refugees’ return, UN takes more cautious tone

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press