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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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In this Oct. 31, 2018 photo, a Lebanese customs officer walks past trucks waiting to cross into Syria from the Lebanese border crossing point of al-Masnaa, in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. The long-awaited reopening of a vital border crossing between Syria and Jordan earlier this month was supposed to bring relief to Lebanese farmers and traders looking to resume exports to Gulf countries. But the commerce has so far been complicated by politics, high transit fees and fighting over which trucks pass through which country. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon’s ‘lung’ to Gulf markets choked by politics

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

UN aid chief: Ensure Idlib cease-fire and prevent onslaught

By EDITH M. LEDERER - 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)

Syria reopens 2 crossings with Jordan, Israeli-held Golan

By Albert Aji and Omar Akour - Associated Press

Syrian president says Russia-Turkey Idlib deal ‘temporary’

Associated Press

In this photo released on Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, missiles are fired from city of Kermanshah in western Iran targeting the Islamic State group in Syria. Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said Monday it launched ballistic missiles into eastern Syria targeting militants it blamed for a recent attack on a military parade. (Sepahnews via AP)

Syria FM says Iran coordinated its ballistic missile strikes

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

This frame grab from video provided by Central Station for Turkish Intervention, an activist-operated media group monitoring Turkish activities in Syria, that is consistent with independent AP reporting, shows a Turkish military convoy heading to some of the 12 Turkish observations points that ring Idlib, Syria, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Turkey sent in military reinforcements Thursday to beef up its positions inside Syria's last rebel bastion Idlib, activists reported, even as the Turkish defense minister said Ankara is still trying with Russia and Iran to prevent a humanitarian tragedy in the case of a threatened Syrian government offensive. (Central Station for Turkish Intervention, via AP)

The Latest: Turkey reinforces security posts in north Syria

Associated Press

This photo released on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018 by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows smoke rising from a Syrian government airstrike, in Hobeit village, near Idlib, Syria. High-level diplomats from Iran, Russia and Turkey were meeting Tuesday with the U.N. envoy for Syria about creating a committee to revise the war-battered country's constitution. Tuesday's talks in Geneva under U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura come amid concerns he and other U.N. officials have expressed about a looming battle for Idlib. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

The Latest: UN chief: A ‘bloodbath’ must be averted in Idlib

Associated Press

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, right, shakes hands with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, after their talks, part of Russia-Iran-Turkey summit to discuss Syria, Friday Sept. 7, 2018. Putin, Erdogan and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani began a meeting Friday in Tehran to discuss the war in Syria, with all eyes on a possible military offensive to retake the last rebel-held bastion of Idlib. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Bombings and air raids kill 4 in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Israeli jets fly over Lebanon in rare daytime raid on Syria

By ALBERT AJI and PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

White House warns Syria against chemical weapons use

By KEN THOMAS - Associated Press

NATO reports Russian naval buildup amid Syria tensions

Associated Press

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian president Bashar Assad, right, meets with Iran's Defense minister Amir Hatami, in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018. Iran has provided key support to Assad in the seven-year civil war, sending thousands of military advisers and allied militiamen to bolster his forces. (SANA via AP)

Iran says ‘no third party’ will limit its support to Syria

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

This combination photo of three undated portraits, shows the Khoulani brothers Mohammad, left, Majd, center, and Abdelsattar, from Daraya, near Damascus, Syria, who all died in prison this decade. The Syrian government has started updating civil registries to reflect deaths among its incarcerated population, activists say. They say they have learned of the passing of hundreds of detainees, including leading voices in the popular uprising against Assad, since the government began updating registries earlier this year, and they fear news of hundreds, if not thousands, of more deaths may soon follow. (Khoulani Family via AP)

In Syria, civil registers disclose hundreds of prison deaths

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

This combination photo of three undated portraits, shows the Khoulani brothers Mohammad, left, Majd, center, and Abdelsattar, from Daraya, near Damascus, Syria, who all died in prison this decade. The Syrian government has started updating civil registries to reflect deaths among its incarcerated population, activists say. They say they have learned of the passing of hundreds of detainees, including leading voices in the popular uprising against Assad, since the government began updating registries earlier this year, and they fear news of hundreds, if not thousands, of more deaths may soon follow. (Khoulani Family via AP)

In Syria, civil registers disclose hundreds of prison deaths

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

Kurdish-led group prepared to work with Syrian government

Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 17, 2018, file photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian troops flash the victory sign next to the Syrian flag in Tell al-Haara, the highest hill in the southwestern Daraa province, Syria. Israel shot down a Syrian fighter jet it said had breached its airspace on Tuesday, as Syrian forces reached the Golan Heights frontier for the first time in seven years. (SANA via AP, File)

Israel shoots down Syrian jet; Syrian forces reach Golan

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 14, 2017, file photo, provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows a civil defense worker carrying a child after airstrikes hit a school housing a number of displaced people in the western part of the southern Daraa province of Syria. The Israeli military said Sunday it had rescued members of a Syrian volunteer civil organization, known as White Helmets, from the volatile frontier area and evacuated them to a third country, the first such Israeli intervention in Syria's lengthy civil war. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File)

Syrian White Helmets evacuated to Jordan through Israel

By SARAH EL DEEB and ARON HELLER - Associated Press

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

Jordanian residents of Jabir village watch aid deliveries to Syrians fleeing government offensive in the south as smoke from unknown fire rises, Tuesday, July 3, 2018. The UN says Syria government's Russian-backed offensive to recover southern territories from rebels has displaced 270,000 people, 60,000 of them headed near the sealed Jordanian borders.(AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Israel lays down red lines for postwar relations with Syria

By Josef Federman - Associated Press