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Suleiman Khalil, 21, who lost his leg in a landmine explosion while harvesting olives with his friends in a field, is reflected in a mirror at his home in the village of Qaminas, east of Idlib, Syria, Wednesday April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

‘I thought I’d died.’ How land mines are continuing to claim lives in post-Assad Syria

By Ghaith Alsayed and Sally Abou AlJoud - Associated Press

Suleiman Khalil, 21, who lost his leg in a landmine explosion while harvesting olives with his friends in a field, is reflected in a mirror at his home in the village of Qaminas, east of Idlib, Syria, Wednesday April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

‘I thought I’d died.’ How landmines are continuing to claim lives in post-Assad Syria

By Ghaith Alsayed and Sally Abou Aljoud - Associated Press

Reinforcement Syrian security forces deploy in the outskirts of Latakia, Syria, Friday, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Albam, File)

Syria’s Alawites still face targeted attacks a month after brutal counteroffensive

By Bassem Mroue and Karrem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Explosions lit up the skies with anti-aircraft fire, over Damascus, the Syrian capital, as the U.S. launches an attack on Syria targeting different parts of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, early Saturday, April 14, 2018. Syria's capital has been rocked by loud explosions that lit up the sky with heavy smoke as U.S. President Donald Trump announced airstrikes in retaliation for the country's alleged use of chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Trump claims success in Syria, but chemical weapons remain

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Brutality of Syria war casts doubt on peace talks

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

** FILE ** Syrian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/SANA)

U.S. skeptical of report the West now helping Assad fight rebel extremists

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. (Associated Press/Syrian State TV via AP video)

Obama says Syria has crossed ‘red line’ with chemical weapons, will send weapons

By Ben Wolfgang and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Qusair-based activist Hadi Abdullah (right) walking on a street hit by the shelling of Hezbolllah Lebanese Shiite group and the Syrian forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanon border, Homs province, Syria, on May 31, 2013. Syrian troops attacked a convoy trying to evacuate the wounded from a central town near the border with Lebanon, killing many people, as rebel reinforcements infiltrated the besieged area to fight government forces backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, activists said. (Associated Press)

Iran may be on invite list for Syria conference

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

U.S. communications equipment to Syria opposition ‘spy-proof’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this July 6, 2012, file photo, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius attend the "Friends of Syria" conference in Paris. The United States is readying new sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime and its allies as Clinton heads to Turkey on Friday, Aug. 10, 2012, for weekend talks with top Turkish officials and Syrian opposition activists. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool, File)

U.S. officials: Al Qaeda gaining foothold in Syria

By Bradley Klapper and Kimberly Dozier - Associated Press