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UN report: Syria or allies likely behind 5 civilian attacks

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Thursday, March 12, 2020 photo, women walk in a neighborhood heavily damaged by airstrikes in Idlib, Syria. Idlib city is the last urban area still under opposition control in Syria, located in a shrinking rebel enclave in the northwestern province of the same name. Syria’s civil war, which entered its 10th year Monday, March 15, 2020, has shrunk in geographical scope -- focusing on this corner of the country -- but the misery wreaked by the conflict has not diminished. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

‘There is nothing now’: Syrians in Idlib fear end nearing

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Firefighters disinfect a street against the new coronavirus, in western Tehran, Iran, Friday, March 13, 2020. The new coronavirus outbreak has reached Iran's top officials, with its senior vice president, Cabinet ministers, members of parliament, Revolutionary Guard members and Health Ministry officials among those infected. The vast majority of people recover from the new coronavirus. According to the World Health Organization, most people recover in about two to six weeks, depending on the severity of the illness. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran death toll from virus passes 600, Syria shuts schools

By AMIR VAHDAT and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

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 vows strong military action if Syria truce violated

Associated Press

FILE - In this frame grab from video taken on Dec. 20, 2019, militants of the al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham try to disperse people who have gathered at the Bab al-Hawa border gate to protest the ongoing bombing campaign in Syria's rebel-controlled Idlib province by the government and its Russian ally. Intermingled among 3 million civilians under siege in the Syrian government's assault on the last opposition stronghold are tens of thousands of al-Qaida-linked fighters and other militants who came from around the world to take part in the country's civil war. (AP Photo, File)

AP Explains: Militant fighters in final battle in Syria

By BASSEM MROUE - 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

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

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

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

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 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

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

In this frame grab from video, Russian, Syrian and others gather next to an American military convoy stuck in the village of Khirbet Ammu, east of Qamishli city, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. (AP Photo) **FILE**

UN says 140,000 displaced in 3 days amid Syrian offensive

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. Akar said as many as four observation posts and two military positions are now in Syrian-controlled territory as the Syrian forces continued their advance into northwestern Idlib province, the last rebel stronghold and warned Turkish soldiers were under orders to retaliate forcefully to attacks on the military posts.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

AP Interview: DM says Turkey won’t pull out amid Syria push

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Rebel fighters fire a missile towards Syrian government positions in the province of Idlib, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020.Syria's military vowed on Sunday to keep up its campaign to regain control of the whole country, days after capturing large chunks of territory from the last rebel holdout in northwestern Syria. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Turkey says it has retaliated after deadly Syrian shelling

By SUZAN FRASER and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this frame grab from video taken on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020, a Turkey Armed Forces convoy is seen at the northern town of Sarmada, in Idlib province, Syria. A large Turkish military convoy moved into the rebel-held areas of northwest Syria on Sunday, witnesses on the ground said, adding it appeared to be heading towards the south of Idlib province. (AP Photo/APTN)

Syrian army enters key town as Turkey beefs up its troops

By BASSEM MROUE and DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

In this frame grab from video taken on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020, people ride their motorcycles next to a Turkey Armed Forces convoy is seen at the northern town of Sarmada, in Idlib province, Syria. A large Turkish military convoy moved into the rebel-held areas of northwest Syria on Sunday, witnesses on the ground said, adding it appeared to be heading towards the south of Idlib province. (AP Photo/APTN)

6 Turkish troops, 13 Syrian soldiers killed in north Syria

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Syrian flee the advance of the government forces in the province of Idlib, Syria, towards the Turkish border, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. Syrian government forces captured one of the largest and most strategic rebel-held towns in the country's northwest, the Syrian military and opposition activists said Wednesday, part of a Russian-backed military assault that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people fleeing to safer areas. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Warplanes kill 10, strike hospital in Syrian offensive

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

In this image released by the White House, President Donald Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence, meets with senior White House advisors Tuesday evening, Jan. 7, 2020, in the Situation Room of the White House in Washington.(Shealah Craighead/White House via AP)

Robert O’Brien says Trump red line for Iran is killing, harming Americans

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Candles are lit on the graves of people killed during Syrian war, in the town of Qamishli, north Syria, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Turkey says its forces capture 18 Syrian soldiers in Syria

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press