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This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)

Syria’s main insurgent group blasts the US Embassy over its criticism of crackdown on protesters

The main insurgent group in rebel-held northwest Syria has blasted the United States over its criticism of a crackdown on protesters in areas outside government control.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends the Efes 2024 military exercise in Izmir, Turkey, Thursday, May 30, 2024. (Yavuz Ozden/DIA Photo via AP)

Turkey signals a new military intervention in Syria if Kurdish groups hold local elections

FILE - Muslim pilgrims pray around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on June 25, 2023. For the first time in over a decade, 270 Syrians traveled on a direct flight early Tuesday from Damascus to Saudi Arabia for the annual Islamic Hajj pilgrimage, the Syrian Transportation Ministry said. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

First Syrian jet in over a decade transports Muslim worshippers to Saudi Arabia for Hajj pilgrimage

Norway's Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide, left, speaks with Jordan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi during a meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, May 27, 2024. Ministers meet Monday for the eighth Brussels Conference on "Supporting the future of Syria and the region". (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Donor fatigue persists as nations commit around $8.1 billion for conflict-hit Syrians

U.N. Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis David Carden, center, inspects a wastewater treatment project in the village of Bhora, in Idlib province, Syria, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Syria's devastating civil war, now in its 14th year, remains largely frozen and so are efforts to find a viable political solution to end it, while millions of Syrians have been pulled into poverty, and struggle with accessing food and health care as the economy deteriorates across the country's front lines. Aid organizations are making their annual pitches to donors ahead of a fundraising conference in Brussels for Syria on Monday, May 27. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Ahead of another donor conference for Syria, humanitarian workers fear more aid cuts

Syrian President Bashar Assad visits Iran to express condolences over death of Raisi

Syrian President Bashar Assad met with Iran’s supreme leader in the capital Tehran on Thursday and expressed his condolences over the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, state media reported Thursday. Iran’s acting President Mohammad Mokhber was present in that meeting. Iran has been the No. 1 regional supporter of Assad in that Arab nation’s lengthy civil war. Hundreds of Iranian forces have been killed in the war though Tehran has long said it has only a military advisory role in Syria.

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Saudi Arabia appoints first ambassador to Syria since 2012

Saudi Arabia has announced the appointment of its first ambassador to Syria since severing ties with Damascus 12 years ago, marking an ongoing thawing in relations since the war-torn country was readmitted to the Arab League over a year ago.

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)

Car bomb in the Syrian capital kills one. Drone strike near Lebanon border targets two vehicles

Syria’s state media says a bomb attached to a car exploded in the western part of the Syrian capital that is home to several diplomatic missions, killing one person and causing material damage.

Activists hold Syrian flags next to portraits of alleged victims of the Syrian regime, during a demonstration Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at a courtroom in Paris. A Paris court will this week seek to determine whether Syrian intelligence officials — the most senior to go on trial in a European court over crimes allegedly committed during the country's civil war — were responsible for the 2013 disappearance and deaths of Patrick and Mazen Dabbagh. The four-day hearings, starting Tuesday, are expected to air chilling allegations that President Bashar Assad's government has widely used torture and arbitrary detentions to hold on to power during the conflict, now in its 14th year. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French court sentences 3 Syrian officials to life in prison in absentia for war crimes

A Paris court has sentenced three high-ranking Syrian officials in absentia to life in prison for complicity in war crimes in a landmark case against the regime of Syria’s President Bashar Assad and the first such case on European soil.

Lawyer Clemence Bectarte, second left, arrives at the court room with Syrian lawyer Mazen Darwish, center, Obeida Dabbagh,brother of Mazen Dabbagh, second right and his wife Hanane, Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at the courtroom in Paris. A Paris court will this week seek to determine whether Syrian intelligence officials — the most senior to go on trial in a European court over crimes allegedly committed during the country's civil war — were responsible for the 2013 disappearance and deaths of Patrick and his father Mazen. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Landmark Paris trial of Syrian officials accused of torturing, killing a father and his son starts

The landmark trial of three former Syrian intelligence officials has begun at a Paris court for the alleged torture and killing of a French-Syrian father and son who were arrested over a decade ago, during the height of Arab Spring-inspired anti-government protests.

FILE - In this photo released on Nov. 9, 2019 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks in Damascus, Syria. In a landmark trial, a Paris court will this week seek Tuesday May 21, 2024 to determine whether Syrian intelligence officials were responsible for Patrick and Mazzen Dabbagh's disappearance and deaths. The hearings are expected to air chilling allegations that President Bashar Assad's regime has widely used torture and arbitrary detentions to keep power in Syria's civil war. (SANA via AP, File)

France is trying Syrian ex-officials for the torture and killing of a father and son. Here’s why

A Paris court is seeking to determine this week whether top Syrian intelligence officials were responsible for the disappearance and deaths of a French-Syrian father and his son.

FILE - Maryam Kamalmaz hold a photo of her father with some of his 14 grandchildren in Grand Prairie, Texas, Jan. 17, 2024. U.S. officials have developed specific and highly credible intelligence suggesting that Majd Kamalmaz, an American citizen who disappeared seven years ago while traveling in Syria has died, Maryam Kamalmaz said Saturday, May 18. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

US intelligence suggests American who vanished in Syria in 2017 has died, daughter says she was told

U.S. officials have developed highly credible intelligence suggesting that an American citizen who disappeared seven years ago while traveling in Syria has died.

A Syrian protester holds up a placard during a protest against al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group in Binnish town, in Idlib province, Syria, Friday, May 17, 2024. Members of Syria's most powerful insurgent group in the country's rebel-held northwest fired bullets in the air and beat up protesters with clubs Friday injuring some of them as weekslong protests demanding release of detainees and an end to the group's rule intensified. The placard shows drawings of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the late Islamic State group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Abu Mohammed al-Golani leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, once linked to al-Qaida and the Arabic writing reads: "Assad = Baghdadi = al-Golani. The faces are different but the crime is one." (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Protests against powerful group persist in Syria’s last major rebel stronghold

Members of Syria’s most powerful insurgent group in the country’s rebel-held northwest have fired bullets in the air and beaten up protesters with clubs, injuring some of them.

Cyprus' interior minister Konstantinos Ioannou, second left, talks with his counterparts Austria's Gerhard Karner, left, Czech's Vít Rakusan, right, and Greece's Minister Of Immigration and Asylum Dimitris Kairides, second right, during the Ministerial Summit Migration and Syria Dynamics in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, May 17, 2024. The governments of eight European Union member states say the situation inside Syria should be re-evaluated to allow for voluntary returns of Syrian refugees back to their homeland. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

8 EU members say conditions in Syria should be reassessed to allow voluntary refugee returns

The governments of eight European Union member states say the situation in Syria should be re-evaluated to allow for the voluntary return of Syrian refugees back to their homeland.

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)

Syria’s Kurdish-led force hands over 2 IS militants suspected in 2014 mass killing of Iraqi troops

Syria’s U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led force has handed over to Baghdad two Islamic State group militants suspected of involvement in the 2014 massacre of Iraqi soldiers.

Family members of suspected Islamic State group fighters wait to be transferred by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters from al-Hol camp, in Hasakeh province, Syria, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Scores of Syrian women and children linked to the Islamic State group left a sprawling camp in northeast Syria Wednesday and headed home to the eastern province of Deir el-Zour following mediation by tribal leaders. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Scores of Syrians return home after years at camp housing people linked to the Islamic State group

Scores of Syrian women and children linked to the Islamic State group have left a sprawling camp in northeast Syria and headed home to the eastern province of Deir el-Zour following mediation by tribal leaders.

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)

US repatriates 11 citizens from notorious camp for relatives of Islamic State militants in Syria

The United States has repatriated 11 of its citizens from sprawling camps in northeastern Syria that house tens of thousands of family members of suspected Islamic State militants.

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)

A suspected Islamic State group attack on pro-government force in east Syria kills at least 13

Syrian opposition war monitor and pro-government media oulets say suspected members of the Islamic State group have attacked three posts for Syrian government forces and pro-government gunmen killing at least 13.

FILE - Mohammed Hassan Masto sits next to the grave of his brother Lutfi on May 7, 2023, in the village of Qorqanya, a rural area in northern Idlib province, Syria. Central Command said Thursday, May 2, 2024, an airstrike in Syria that was targeting an al-Qaida leader misidentified the intended target and killed Lutfi Hassan Masto instead. The investigation confirms early reports from residents and family members shortly after the attack. (AP Photo/Omar Albam, File)

US airstrike targeting al-Qaida leader in Syria killed a farmer, American military says

The U.S. military said an airstrike in Syria in May 2023 that was targeting an al-Qaida leader killed an innocent civilian instead. The investigation by U.S.

This image provided by the Sherburne County Jail in Elk River, Minn., shows Abelhamid Al-Madioum, a Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria. Al-Madioum, who has been cooperating with federal authorities and now expresses remorse for joining a “death cult”, will learn Wednesday, May 1, 2024, how much prison time he faces. Al-Madioum was brought to the U.S. in 2020 and pleaded guilty in 2021 to providing material support to a designated terrorist organization. (Sherburne County Jail via AP)

Sentencing postponed for Minnesota man who regrets joining Islamic State group

A Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria but now expresses remorse and has been cooperating with authorities will have to wait to learn how much prison time he faces.

FILE - Kurdish forces patrol al-Hol camp, which houses families of members of the Islamic State group in Hasakeh province, Syria, on April 19, 2023. Iraq has repatriated hundreds more of its citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria, Iraqi and Syrian officials said Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

Iraq repatriates nearly 700 more citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a Syrian camp

Iraqi and Syrian officials say Baghdad has repatriated hundreds more of its citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria.

FILE - Kurdish forces patrol al-Hol camp, which houses families of members of the Islamic State group in Hasakeh province, Syria, on April 19, 2023. Kurdish-led authorities in northeast Syria handed over Thursday 50 family members of the Islamic State group fighters to a delegation from Tajikistan that escorted the repatriates back home. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

Syrian Kurdish officials hand over 50 women and children linked to Islamic State group to Tajikistan

Kurdish-led authorities in northeastern Syria have handed over 50 women and children, family members of militants from the Islamic State group, to a delegation from Tajikistan that is repatriating them back home.

Israeli police detain a suspected attacker in an apparent car ramming that wounded three people on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Passover, in Jerusalem, Monday, April 22, 2024. Israeli police said they have arrested two people after a car slammed into pedestrians in Jerusalem on Monday, lightly wounding three. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

The Latest | Failed rocket strike launched on US-led coalition forces base in Syria

A U.S. defense official said that a failed rocket strike was launched Sunday night at a base housing U.S.

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)

Attack blamed on IS militants kills 22 pro-government fighters in central Syria

An opposition war monitor and a pro-government media outlet say an attack on pro-government fighters by suspected members of the Islamic State group in central Syria killed 22 pro-government fighters.

FILE - Women residents from former Islamic State-held areas in Syria line up for aid supplies at Al-Hol camp in Hassakeh province, Syria, March 31, 2019. Amnesty International said Wednesday, April 17, 2024 it has documented widespread abuses, including torture and deprivation of medical care, in detention facilities holding thousands of suspected Islamic State members and their relatives in northeast Syria. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Human rights group alleges widespread torture, abuse of detainees accused of IS affiliation in Syria

Amnesty International says it has documented widespread abuses, including torture and deprivation of medical care, in detention facilities holding thousands of suspected Islamic State members and their relatives in northeast Syria.

General view of the Stockholm District Court ahead of the main hearing against the former Syrian brigadier general Mohammed Hamo, who stands accused of aiding and abetting war crimes in Syria in 2012, and whose trial starts today, Monday April 15, 2024 (Oscar Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)

The trial of a former Syrian general over alleged role in war crimes starts in Stockholm

The trial of a former Syrian army general over his alleged role in war crimes committed in 2012 in his home country started at a Stockholm court, a first according to a human rights organization.

FILE - Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi, speaks during a press conference at the interior ministry in Beirut, Lebanon, on May 16, 2022. Lebanon’s caretaker interior minister says this week’s slaying of a local politician by what authorities say was a gang of Syrian nationals signals the need to restrict the number of refugees entering the country from neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Lebanon official urges restrictions on Syrian refugees after slaying blamed on Syrian gang

Lebanon’s caretaker interior minister says this week’s slaying of a local politician by what authorities say was a gang of Syrian nationals signals the need to restrict the number of refugees entering the country from neighboring Syria.

A display showing slain Iranian military officials and allied Lebanese and Palestinians next to the al-Aqsa Mosque is set up, as the Iranian embassy receives condolences for the death of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, who led the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force in Lebanon and Syria until 2016, and six other Iranian military officials, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, April 8, 2024. An Israeli airstrike that demolished Iran's consulate in Syria on last Monday killed two Iranian generals and five officers, according to Iranian officials. The strike appeared to signify an escalation of Israel's targeting of military officials from Iran, which supports militant groups fighting Israel in Gaza, and along its border with Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Iran’s foreign minister accuses US of giving Israel ‘green light’ to attack consulate in Syria

Iran’s foreign minister has accused the United States of giving Israel the “green light” for a strike on its consulate building in Syria that killed seven Iranian military officials, including two generals.

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)

Bombing kills co-founder of Syria’s main al-Qaida-linked group, once known as Nusra Front

A war monitor says a suicide bomber killed the co-founder of Syria’s main al-Qaida-linked group that controls much of the country’s northwest.

In this photo released by the official Syrian state news agency SANA, emergency service workers clear the rubble at a destroyed building struck by Israeli jets in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 1, 2024. An Israeli airstrike has destroyed the consular section of Iran's embassy in Syria, killing a senior Iranian military adviser and roughly a handful of other people, Syrian state media said Monday. (SANA via AP)

US braces for retaliation after attack on Iran consulate — even as it says it wasn’t involved

A top U.S. commander in the Middle East is acknowledging concern about retaliatory attacks on American forces there.

Iranian protesters chant slogans as they hold up posters of the late Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone attack in 2020, during their anti-Israeli gathering to condemn killing members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Syria, at the Felestin (Palestine) Sq. in downtown Tehran, Iran, Monday, April 1, 2024. An Israeli airstrike that demolished Iran's consulate in Syria killed two Iranian generals and five officers, Syrian and Iranian officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Tehran vows response after strike blamed on Israel destroyed Iran’s Consulate in Syria and killed 12

Iran has vowed to respond to a deadly airstrike widely attributed to Israel that demolished Iran’s consulate building in the Syrian capital and killed 12 people, including two Iranian generals.

Emergency services work at a building hit by an air strike in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 1, 2024. An Israeli airstrike that demolished Iran’s consulate in Damascus Monday killed two Iranian generals and five officers, Syrian and Iranian officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Israeli strike on Iran’s consulate in Syria killed 2 generals and 5 other officers, Iran says

Iranian military officials say an Israeli airstrike that demolished Iran’s consulate in Syria killed two Iranian generals and five officers.

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the central Gaza Strip, Monday, April 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

The Latest | Israel ends raid on Gaza hospital; Iran says strike kills 2 generals in Syria

The Israeli military has withdrawn from Gaza’s main hospital after a two-week raid. The army says it killed some 200 militants after days of close-quarters fighting around Shifa Hospital.

In this photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian White Helmet civil defense workers search for casualties after a car bomb exploded in a busy market in the Turkish-controlled northwestern city of Azaz, Syria, early Sunday, March 31, 2024. The explosion that tore through the busy market killing at least three people and wounded five civilians, the paramedic group said, and destroyed shops and homes in the area. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

A car bomb in a Syrian opposition-held town kills at least 3 people, including 2 children

A car bomb has exploded in a busy market in a northern Syrian town controlled by Turkey-based Syrian opposition fighters, killing at least three people, rescue workers and a war monitor said.

This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)

Syria reports Israeli airstrikes near the city of Aleppo. A war monitor says 44 people are dead

The Syrian army says Israeli airstrikes near the northern city of Aleppo have killed and wounded several people and caused damage.

US imposes more Iran sanctions and hits Syrian regime with penalties for drug trafficking

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on a group of firms and one individual across six countries involved in commodity shipments and business transactions that benefit Iran’s military and the Houthi militant group in Yemen and Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.