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In this photo taken from the Turkish side of the border between Turkey and Syria, in Ceylanpinar, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, a new of Ras al-Ayn, Syria, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. Fighting broke out in the morning hours in the Syrian border town which has been a flashpoint in the fight between Turkey and Kurdish forces despite a U.S.-brokered cease-fire that went into effect overnight. The fighting died down in mid-morning. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Turkey wants Syrian forces to leave border areas, aide says

By KARL RITTER and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Turkish tanks and troops stationed near Syrian town of Manbij, Syria, Tuesday. Oct. 15, 2019. Russia moved to fill the void left by the United States in northern Syria on Tuesday, deploying troops to keep apart advancing Syrian government and Turkish forces.(Ugur Can/DHA via AP)

The Latest: US envoy urges Turkey to stop Syria offensive

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Turkish tanks and troops stationed near Syrian town of Manbij, Syria, Tuesday. Oct. 15, 2019. Russia moved to fill the void left by the United States in northern Syria on Tuesday, deploying troops to keep apart advancing Syrian government and Turkish forces.(Ugur Can/DHA via AP)

Fearing US abandonment, Kurds kept back channels wide open

By MATTHEW LEE and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

A Turkish youth celebrates with a national flag after news about Syrian town of Tal Abyad, in Turkish border town of Akcakale, in Sanliurfa province, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. Turkey's official Anadolu news agency, meanwhile, said Turkey-backed Syrian forces have advanced into the center of a Syrian border town, Tal Abyad, on the fifth day of Turkey's military offensive. (Ismail Coskun/IHA via AP)

Trump orders Turkey sanctions; US scrambles for Syria exit

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Syrians walk at the border crossing between Iraq and Syria in Semelka, northeast Syria, Monday Oct. 14, 2019. The border crossing between Iraq and Syria's Kurdish-held northeastern Syria was dreary on Monday. The truck lane of the usually bustling commercial gateway was empty_ only a single pick-up stood in the parking lot with sheep in the flatbed. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Foreigners exit northeastern Syria fearing government reach

By ANDREA ROSA and HUSSEIN MALLA - Associated Press

This photo released by the opposition Syrian Civil Defense rescue group, also known as White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows people inspecting destroyed buildings after airstrikes hit the town of Ihsem, in Idlib province, Syria. Government forces have been on the offensive since April 30, during which they have captured all rebel-held areas in the adjoining Hama province. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

The Latest: Russia to help rebuild NW town retaken by Syria

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Syria says it agrees to cease-fire in rebel stronghold

By ALBERT AJI and EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, shows Syrian White Helmet civil defense workers and civilians carry an injured man on a stretcher after an airstrike hit the northern town of Ariha, in Idlib province, Syria, Sunday, July 28, 2019. Syrian opposition activists and a war monitor say five people have been killed in airstrikes on a town in the country's northwest as the government keeps up its deadly air campaign on the rebel-controlled region. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP) **FILE**

Syria keeps up deadly bombardment of rebel-held town

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Fighting in northwest Syria kill scores of fighters

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This photo posted May 28, 2019, and provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian White Helmet civil defense workers trying to extinguish fire following an airstrike by Syrian government forces that targeted a health facility in the town of Kfar Nubul, southern Idlib, Syria. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File)

Syria uses familiar tactic in rebel Idlib: Bombing civilians

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

This Tuesday, May 28, 2019 photo, provided by the community service group, Together for Jarniyah, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrians working to extinguish a fire in a field of crops, in Jaabar, Raqqa province, Syria. Crop fires in parts of Syria and Iraq have been blamed on defeated Islamic State group militants in the east seeking to avenge the group’s losses, and on Syrian government forces in the west battling to rout other armed groups there. (Together for Jarniyah via AP)

Crop fires, a weapon of war, ruin Iraqi, Syrian harvests

By SALAR SALIM AND SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a civil defense worker carrying a child after an airstrike by the Syrian government forces, in the town of Ariha, in the northwestern province of Idlib, Syria, Monday, May 27, 2019. Syria's White Helmets say at least six people were killed and 10 remain under rubble following government air raids on a town in the rebel's last stronghold. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Syrian air raids hit crowded residential areas in Idlib

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2019 file photo, provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows smoke rising after Syrian government and Russian airstrikes that hit the town of al-Habeet, southern Idlib, Syria. Russia said Sunday, May 19, 2019, that Syrian government forces have unilaterally ceased fire in the northern Idlib province, the last major rebel stronghold. Fighting erupted in Idlib last month, effectively shattering a cease-fire negotiated by Russia and Turkey that had been in place since September. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File)

Russia says Syrian government forces halt fire in Idlib

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FILE - This file photo released on April 7, 2019, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows cars queuing to fill their tanks with fuel, at a gas station in Daraa, south Syria. As a fuel shortage crisis deepens in government-held areas of Syria, Cabinet ministers huddled in televised meetings to reassure the public they are searching for solutions. New rationing measures were rolled out, and government officials held talks with allies in Iran and Russia to explore options for the crisis aggravated by U.S. sanctions on Damascus and Tehran. (SANA via AP, File)

Syrian government has few options to battle fuel sanctions

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a civil defense worker helps a child after shelling at a street in Nairab town, in the eastern province of Idlib, Syria, Sunday, April 7, 2019. Opposition activists and Syrian state media are reporting at least 13 people have been killed in an exchange of violence between government forces and insurgents in the northwestern part of Syria. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Fighting in northwestern Syria strains truce, kills 13

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Dividing the Syrian Corpse Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Dividing up Syria bodes ill for regional stability and for U.S. interests

By Shoshana Bryen

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2018 file photo, a fighter of Syrian opposition stands at a checkpoint in northwestern city of Idlib, Syria. Waves of violence in northwestern Syria has killed scores of people since mid Jan. 2019 and displaced tens of thousands raising concerns that a truce reached in Sept. 2018 between Turkey and Russia is in danger as the final battle to retake the Islamic State group’s last pocket of territory plays out in eastern Syria. (Ugur Can/DHA via AP, File)

As IS fight nears end, violence flares on other Syrian front

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE- In this May 13, 2013, file photo, the photo of Journalist Marie Colvin who was killed in Syria while she was reporting from there, is seen on the wall of the Newseum during the Journalist Memorial Re-dedication ceremony of the journalists who died reporting the news in 2012 in Washington. Seven years after Colvin was killed while covering the Syrian revolution, a Washington court has found the Syrian government liable and awarded more than $300 million in damages (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Lawyer blasts verdict that blamed Syria for journalist death

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

FILE - This Nov. 3, 2008, file photo shows Marie Colvin. In a verdict unsealed late Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, a Washington judge hit the Syrian government with a $302 million judgment over the 2012 death of journalist Colvin, a longtime foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times. (Joel Ryan/PA via AP, File)

Legislator blasts verdict blaming Syria for journalist death

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FILE -- In this April 4, 2018 file photo, a U.S. soldier stands in a newly installed position near the front line between the U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council and the Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria. The planned U.S. troop withdrawal opens a void in the north and east of Syria, and the conflicts and rivalries among all the powers in the Middle East are converging to fill it. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

With US leaving, rival powers seek to move into Syria’s east

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press