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FILE - In this May 27, 2021 file photo, Syrian President Bashar Assad supporters hold up national flags and pictures of Assad as they celebrate at Omayyad Square, in Damascus, Syria. Jordan’s King Abdullah received a call from Syrian President Bashar Assad, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, the first between the two leaders after a decade of strained relations over Syria's civil war. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Syria’s Assad calls Jordan’s king amid thaw in relations

Jordan’s King Abdullah II has received a call from Syrian President Bashar Assad. Sunday’s call is the first between the two leaders after a decade of strain over Syria’s civil war.
 
A general view of a petrol station on the main highway that link the Capital Beirut to south Lebanon as a man holds a gallon of fuel, right, while cars come from every direction to try and fill their tanks with gasoline, in the coastal town of Jiyeh, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021. Lebanon is mired in a devastating economic and financial crisis, the worst in its modern history. A result of this has been crippling power cuts and severe shortages in gasoline and diesel that have been blamed on smuggling, hoarding and the cash-strapped government’s inability to secure deliveries of oil products. (AP Photo/ Hassan Ammar)

High-level Lebanese delegation arrives in Syria to talk fuel

 
This image released by Sesame Workshop shows characters, from left, Jad, Ma'zooza, Basma, grover, background center, Cookie Monster and Elmo. Sesame Workshop — the nonprofit, educational organization behind “Sesame Street” — has teamed up with the International Rescue Committee — to launch a new, locally produced Arabic TV program "Welcome Sesame" for the hundreds of thousands of children dealing with displacement in Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. (Sesame Workshop via AP)

‘Sesame Street’ comforts children displaced by Syrian war

 
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, residents welcome Syrian soldiers shortly after they entered the northern town of Tal Tamr on Monday, Oct 14, 2019. The move toward Tal Tamr came a day after Syria's Kurds said Syrian government forces agreed to help them fend off Turkey's invasion — a major shift in alliances that came after President Donald Trump ordered all U.S. troops withdrawn from the northern border area amid the rapidly deepening chaos. (SANA via AP)

Turkey widens invasion as Syrian army returns to northeast

 
This photo provided by the activist-operated Thiqa News Agency, shows a Turkish military convoy heading toward the town of Khan Sheikhoun, in Idlib province, Syria, Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. The Turkish military convoy carrying ammunition crossed into northern Syria Monday and moved south through rebel-held areas before it was stopped by airstrikes that struck near the highway where the convoy was moving, opposition activists said. (Thiqa News Agency via AP)

Airstrikes target Turkish convoy in Syria, raising tensions

 

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Turkey deported 8,500 terror suspects since Syrian war began

ISTANBUL (AP) — More than 8,500 foreign fighters have been deported from Turkey since the start of the Syrian civil war 10 years ago, the Turkish Interior Ministry said Saturday.
 

Jordan carrier resuming flights to Syria in new sign of thaw

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s national airline will resume direct flights to Damascus on Oct. 3, Jordan’s state-run news agency reported Tuesday, nearly a decade after flights were suspended because of the war in Syria.
 

UN: Constitutional committee should lead to end of Syria war

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council says the launch of a committee to draft a new constitution for Syria later this month should be the beginning of a political process to end the eight-year-long Syrian civil war.
 
FILE - This Aug 20, 2018 photo, provided by the al-Qaida-affiliated Ibaa News Network, shows fighters of the al-Qaida-linked coalition known as Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, training in Idlib province, Syria. After eight months of relative calm, Idlib is once again a theater for bloody military operations as Syrian government troops, backed by Russia, push their way into the rebel-held enclave in a widening offensive. The violence in May 2019 threatens to completely unravel a crumbling cease-fire agreement reached between Turkey and Russia last September. (Ibaa News Network, via AP, File)

The Latest: 11 UN council nations urge Idlib cease-fire

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Syrian civil war (all times local):

9:45 p.m.

Eleven members of the U.N.
 
In this Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018 photo, a Druze family visits a memorial erected in honor of the 37 Druze who killed during a stunning Islamic State attack at the village of Shreihi in the southern province of Sweida, Syria. Three months after a stunning Islamic State attack on a southeastern corner of Syria in which more than 200 people were killed and 30 women and children abducted, tensions are boiling over, and young men are taking up arms. It is a stark change for a province that managed to stay on the sidelines of the seven-year Syrian war and where most villagers worked grazing livestock over surrounding hills. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

In Syria’s Sweida, young men take up arms to defend villages

SWEIDA, Syria (AP) — Maysoun Saab’s eyes filled with tears as she recalled finding her parents bleeding to death on the ground outside their home, minutes after they were shot by Islamic State militants on a killing spree across once tranquil villages they infiltrated in a southeastern corner of Syr
 
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

JERUSALEM (AP) — As Syrian government forces press on with a furious offensive against rebel-held areas in the country’s south, Israel is quietly acknowledging that President Bashar Assad’s forces will soon be on its doorstep, laying down red lines for postwar relations with the Syrian leader.
 

Life slowly returns to Aleppo, shattered by Syrian civil war

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — Aleppo’s largest square was packed with people of all ages: young men performing a folk dance, children playing, others buying ice cream, popcorn, peanuts and salted pumpkin seeds.
 

As Syrian war winds down, Israel sets sights on Hezbollah

PILON MILITARY BASE, Israel (AP) — With President Bashar Assad seemingly poised to survive the Syrian civil war, Israeli leaders are growing nervous about the intentions of his Iranian patrons and their emerging corridor of influence across the region.
 

Aleppo still badly scarred by war, months after rebel defeat

ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — “Aleppo is in my eyes,” says a billboard depicting President Bashar Assad looking out over two men and a boy repaving the main Saadallah al-Jabiri Square — once a front line in one of the deadliest episodes of the Syrian civil war.
 
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attend a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Monday , Aug.28, 2017. ( Heidi Levine, Pool via AP)

New Hamas leader says it is getting aid again from Iran

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas’ new leader in the Gaza Strip said Monday his group has repaired relations with Iran after a five-year rift and is using its newfound financial and military aid to gear up for new hostilities with Israel.
 

Russian military police deploy north of Syrian city of Homs

BEIRUT (AP) — Russian military police deployed north of the central city of Homs on Friday, setting up checkpoints and observation points as part of a cease-fire in a third safe zone in war-torn Syria, but opposition activists said the truce was violated by government forces.
 

Israel promotes aid for Syrian civil war victims

ON THE ISRAEL-SYRIA FRONTIER, Golan Heights (AP) — The Israeli military on Wednesday promoted a comprehensive aid program to Syrian civilians harmed by their country’s civil war, marking a significant broadening of its involvement in a conflict of which it has tried to steer clear.
 
Turkish experts evacuate a victim of a suspected chemical weapons attacks in the Syrian city of Idlib, at a local hospital in Reyhanli, Turkey, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. A suspected chemical attack in a town in Syria's rebel-held northern Idlib province killed dozens of people on Tuesday, opposition activists said, describing the attack as among the worst in the country's six-year civil war. (DHA-Depo Photos via AP)

Timeline of the Syrian civil war and US response

The U.S. attack on a Syrian air base came after years of heated debate and deliberation in Washington over intervention in the bloody civil war.
 

The Latest: Kerry to meet with ‘regional partners’ on Syria

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the developments in the Syrian civil war (all times local):

9 p.m.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will discuss ways to resolve the Syria crisis at a meeting with counterparts from “key regional partners” in Lausanne, Switzerland on Saturday.
 
Activists in Syria’s besieged Aleppo protest against the United Nations for what they say is its failure to lift the siege off their rebel-held area, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016. Dozens of protesters marched in al-Shaar neighborhood heading toward the Castello road, the area from which aid is expected to be delivered. “Hunger better than humiliation,” one banner read. “X the UN,” another read. (Modar Shekho via AP)

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Syria ceasefire deal rife with legal, liability questions

WASHINGTON (AP) — The deal crafted by the U.S. and Russia to halt the Syrian civil war and focus efforts on rooting out extremists in the country is rife with legal and liability questions that are fueling Pentagon skepticism about military cooperation between the two powers, senior U.S. officials s