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In this photo released Nov. 9, 2019, by the official news agency SANA, then-President Bashar Assad speaks in Damascus, Syria. (SANA FILE via AP, File)

Assad says he had no plans to leave Syria but was evacuated by Russians

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Syrian soldiers prepare to take part in military exercises led by Russian military advisers at a military base about 50-kilometers away from Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Former rebel stronghold in Syria begins to rebuild

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

A Syrian soldier stands on a tank waving a national flag in the northwestern town of Khan Sheikhoun, Syria, on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019. The town was captured by Syrian troops this week after a monthslong offensive. (AP Photo/Albert Aji)

Syrian troops surround Turkish post in country’s northwest

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

This photo released on the Facebook page of the Military Council of Manbij City, shows U.S. troops based around the Syrian town of Manbij speaking with residents, in northern Syria, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. (The Military Council of Manbij City via AP)

The Latest: Turkey-backed Syrians brace for key town clash

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Syria says US-led coalition fired missiles on its positions

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In this Tuesday, July 17, 2018, photo, Col. Omar Melhem, 51, who defected from the Syrian army defector and once commanded a rebel faction of some 3,000 fighters speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the central Syrian town of Talbiseh, Homs province, Syria. As the Syrian government reasserts control over opposition strongholds, co-existence between the military and former rebel fighters who surrendered is the new reality. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Under Assad’s grip, uneasy co-existence with Syria ex-rebels

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Syria state-run media reports US-led airstrike on army posts

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly Cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018. (Abir Sultan/Pool via AP)

Israeli jets and rockets hit Syria overnight, Syrian army claims

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE -- This undated file photo, shows Abu Mohammed al-Golani, second right, then leader of Fatah al-Sham Front, in pictures posted by the group, discussing battlefield details with field commanders over a map, in Aleppo, Syria. Russia's military announced Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, that it carried out airstrikes in Syria this week that critically wounded al-Golani, the leader of the al-Qaida-linked Levant Liberation Committee and killed 12 other militant commanders. Writing in Arabic banner reads, &quot;Sheik Abu Mohammed al-Golani inspects military development and discusses them with military commanders as part of the battle for lifting the siege off Aleppo.&quot; (Militant UGC via AP, file)

Assad’s forces push into key IS stronghold in eastern Syria

By BASSEM MROUE and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

This photo provided on Monday, Aug 28, 2017 by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows buses gathering before a planned evacuation of Islamic State group militants, in the mountainous region of Qalamoun, Syria. The remains of eight Lebanese soldiers kidnapped by the Islamic State group three years ago were located Sunday, a senior Lebanese official said, in a negotiated deal that followed a military offensive to drive the militants out of the border area with Syria. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP)

After deal, IS allowed to leave Syria-Lebanon border area

By HASSAN AMMAR and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE -- In this June 19, 2016 file photo, a Lebanese army soldier takes his position overlooking an area controlled by the Islamic State group at the edge of the town of Arsal, in northeast Lebanon. Lebanon’s U.S.-backed military is gearing up for a long awaited assault to dislodge hundreds of IS militants from a remote corner of northeastern Lebanon near the border with Syria, seeking to end a years-long threat posed to neighboring towns and villages by the extremists. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Lebanon’s army prepares to clear border area of IS militants

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016 photo released by the Syrian Presidency, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks to The Associated Press at the presidential palace in Damascus, Syria. Egypt's subtle support for Assad and close ties to Russia, for example, puts the most populous Arab nation at odds with the Saudis, who support anti-government Islamist rebel groups in Syria and sees no alternative to Assad's departure. (Syrian Presidency via AP, File)

Kremlin: demands for Assad’s departure “thoughtless”

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during his annual news conference in Moscow, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. Russia on Tuesday argued strongly against Turkey's demand to keep a leading Kurdish group out of Syria's peace talks, and said it expects the U.N. envoy to resist what he called &quot;blackmail&quot; by Turkey and others, reflecting sharp differences that remain ahead of the scheduled talks. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

The Latest: Russia floats rival UN resolution on Syria

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In this picture taken on Friday Oct. 23, 2015, Free Syrian Army Col. Ahmad Hamada, spokesman of the supreme command of the Syrian revolution, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, at the Turkish-Syrian border of Reyhanli town, southern Turkey. Despite a month of heavy battering by Russian airstrikes, Syria’s rebels have so far been able to fend off offensives by government forces trying to retake territory from the rebel’s heartland. The fierce fighting shows how even greater backing from Syrian President Bashar Assad’s international allies is not swiftly tipping the conflict in his favor. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

L. TODD WOOD: Defectors: Syrian army completely controlled by Iranian militia

Russian President Vladimir Putin and chief of his staff Sergei Ivanov, left, take part in a meeting in Nizhny Tagil in the Ural mountains, Russia, on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015. Putin on Wednesday ordered long-range air defense missile systems to be deployed at a Russian air base in Syria following the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey. (Alexei Nikolsky/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Vladimir Putin says second pilot in downed warplane has been rescued, is now safe

By Albert Aji - Associated Press

A wounded Israeli soldier is brought to a hospital in Haifa, Israel, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. A roadside bomb hit an Israeli patrol near the frontier with the Golan Heights on Tuesday, the army said, wounding four soldiers in the most serious violence to strike the area since the Syrian conflict began three years ago. Israel said it responded with artillery strikes on Syrian army targets. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed the strategic area in a move that was not internationally recognized. (AP Photo/Hertzel Shapira) ****ISRAEL OUT***

Israeli airstrikes kill 1 Syrian soldier, wound 7

By Albert Aji - Associated Press

** FILE ** This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian rebels preparing to fire locally made rockets, in Idlib province, northern Syria, Tuesday, June 4, 2013. (Associated Press)

Commander of Syrian opposition fighters say supplies, time running short

By Sara Carter - Washington Guardian

A Syrian boy waves the Syrian revolutionary flag during a celebration to commemorate the second anniversary of the Syrian revolution, in Amman, Jordan, Friday, March, 15, 2013. Around a thousand Syrians gathered in front of the Syrian embassy, and chanted slogans against Assad, and the Baath regime that has ruled Syria for the last 40 years. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

High-ranking Syrian general defects from army

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A women passes accumulated garbage in the Al-Bohout area of Aleppo, Syria, on Nov. 10, 2012. Due to heavy fighting and shelling, the garbage collection system collapsed weeks before. (Associated Press)

Israel strikes Syria armor, hiking spillover fears

By Ariel Schalit and Josef Federman - Associated Press