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Young Kurdish men line up to sign up to join Syrian government's General Security forces at a police station in Afrin, Syria, an area in the country's north from which Kurds were forcibly displaced years ago, Thursday Aug. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Push to recruit Kurds and religious minorities to Syrian security forces brings hope and skepticism

By Omar Albam and Abby Sewell - Associated Press

People stand in front of damaged buildings, in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapon attack, near Damascus, Syria, on April 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

A decade after a sarin gas attack in a Damascus suburb, Syrian survivors lose hope for justice

By Kareem Chehayeb and Omar Albam - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 24, 2018 file photo, Turkish soldiers atop an armored personnel carrier secure the streets of the northwestern city of Afrin, Syria, during a Turkish government-organized media tour into northern Syria. Turkish military said Sunday, March. 31, 2019 that one of its soldier has been killed in Syria’s north in what Syrian activists describe as an attack by local Kurdish fighters. Turkey's ministry of defense said a mortar attack Sunday on its troops around Afrin in northwestern Syria killed one soldier and wounded another. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Turkish soldier killed in attack in northwest Syria

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Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army soldiers walk in the city center of Afrin, northwestern Syria, early Sunday, March 18, 2018. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that allied Syrian forces have taken &quot;total&quot; control of the town center of Afrin, the target of a nearly two-month-old Turkish offensive against a Syrian Kurdish militia, which said fighting was still underway. Erdogan said the Turkish flag and the flag of the Syrian opposition fighters have been raised in the town, previously controlled by the Kurdish militia known as the People's Defense Units, or YPG. (Hasan Kırmızitaş/DHA-Depo Photos via AP)

The Latest: 8 Security Council members demand Syria action

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FILE - This Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018 file photo, Turkey-backed opposition fighters of the Free Syrian Army secure a checkpoint at the village of Maarin, on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Azaz, Syria. Beaten by the government and squeezed by al-Qaida, many of Syria's rebels have put themselves under Turkey's wing to battle Kurdish forces, trying to find a path back to relevance in Syria's messy and multi-sided civil war. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Syrian rebels seek relevance by joining Turkey’s offensive

By PHILIP ISSA and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army fighters secure an area where Turkish army's Operation Olive Branch continue in Azaz, Syria on Wednesday. Turkish officials have talked about expanding the Syrian incursion to target Manbiji, held by U.S.-allied Kurds. (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS)

Trump, Recep Tayyip Erdogan struggle to head off clash over Syrian Kurds

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Turkish soldiers prepare their tanks to enter combat and join a military offensive on a Kurdish-held enclave in northern Syria, at a staging area in the Hatay province,Turkey near the the border with Syria.Turkey launched an operation, codenamed Olive Branch, last week against the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units in Afrin, Syria that it deems a terror group. The operation codenamed Olive Branch is on its fourth day. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Thousands on run, hiding as Turkey keeps up Syria offensive

By SARAH EL DEEB and PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

Turkish military trucks carrying tanks and other armoured vehicles cross through a border gate into a Turkish-controlled region of the Oncupinar border crossing with Syria, known as Bab al Salameh in Arabic, near the city of Kilis, Turkey, late Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018. The deployment occurred hours after dozens of Turkish jets bombed Syrian Kurdish militia targets in the enclave of Afrin. (Can Erok/DHA-Depo Photos via AP)

The Latest: Russia warned Kurdish officials of Turkey attack

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A plume of smoke rises on the air from inside Syria, as seen from the outskirts of the border town of Kilis, Turkey, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says Turkish jets have begun an aerial offensive against the Syrian Kurdish-held enclave of Afrin. Turkey's military fired into the enclave in north Syria for a second day on Saturday. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Turkish jets bombard Kurdish-run city of Afrin in Syria

By MEHMET GUZEL and PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

The Latest: Tillerson speaks to Turkey, Russia diplomats

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Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army, FSA, fighters tour in the Syrian town of Azez near the border with Turkey, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. Turkey's Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli said on Friday in Ankara that his country is determined to carry out a military offensive against an enclave in northwest Syria, saying Syrian Kurdish fighters there pose a &quot;real&quot; and ever increasing threat to Turkey. (DHA-Depo Photos via AP)

Turkey faces balancing act amid border offensive in Syria

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press