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People cross a damaged bridge over the Euphrates River in Raqqa, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Reimpose sanctions on Syria

By Morhaf Ibrahim

Syrian government forces stand guard outside Al-Aqtan prison on the outskirts of Raqqa, northeastern Syria, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, as negotiations are underway between the Syrian government and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces over a withdrawal from the prison. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Syrian forces take control of prison housing IS members after Kurdish fighters evacuate

By Ghaith Alsayed - Associated Press

Soldiers of the Kurdish-led, U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) deploy with armoured military vehicles to secure roads leading to Gweiran Prison which houses men accused of being an Islamic State (ISIS) fighters in Hassakeh, northeastern Syria, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Syrian military, Kurdish-led forces announce new truce after guards leave camp housing IS families

By Ghaith Alsayed - Associated Press

A Syrian government fighter stands guard outside Al-Aqtan prison on the outskirts of Raqqa, northeastern Syria, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, as negotiations are underway with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces over a withdrawal from the prison. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syrian government forces clash with Kurdish fighters as IS prisoners escape

By Ghaith Alsayed - Associated Press

Residents topple a statue of a female Kurdish fighter after the takeover of the town by Syrian government forces from U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in Tabqa, eastern Syria, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syrian government announces a ceasefire with the Syrian Democratic Forces

By Ghaith Alsayed and Omar Albam - Associated Press

Rohlat Efrin, center, a commander in the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, speaks with an SDF member as American soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State group stand guard during a meeting in Deir Hafer, Syria, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

U.S. military visits contested area in northern Syria to defuse rising tensions

By Hogir Al Abdo and Ghaith Alsayed - Associated Press

FILE - A car drives by a destroyed statue in the Druze-majority town of Sweida, Syria, July 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)

Rights group warns on failure to deliver justice after sectarian killings in Syria’s Sweida

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Protesters from the Alawite religious minority demonstrate two days after a bomb in an Alawite mosque in Homs killed eight people and wounded 18 during Friday prayers, in Latakia, Syria's coastal region, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Syrian forces impose curfew in Alawite stronghold after major protests

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Syrian security forces stand guard as residents leave the Sheikh Maqsoud and Achrafieh neighborhoods of Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, following overnight clashes between Syrian government troops and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. (AP Photo/Omar Albam) ** FILE **

Damascus: Military integration talks with Syrian Democratic Force stall as deadline approaches

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Sabah al-Sheikh al-Kilani, the mother of Khaled al-Masoud, points to bullet holes in the wall of her son's home after he was killed during a raid in the town of al-Dumayr, in the Damascus countryside, Syria, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

U.S. raid allegedly killed Syrian undercover agent instead of Islamic State group official

By Omar Albam and Abby Sewell - Associated Press

Bedouin fighters stand in front a burned shop at Mazraa village on the outskirts of Sweida city, during clashes between the Bedouin clans and Druze militias, southern Syria, Friday, July 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

U.S. envoy says Syria, Israel agree to ceasefire as Druze minority and Bedouin clans clash in Syria

By Ghaith Alsayed and Abby Sewell - Associated Press

Syrian government security forces gather on the outskirts of Sweida province where clashes erupted between Druze militias and Sunni Bedouin clans, southern Syria, Monday, July 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Malek Khattab)

Israel strikes military tanks in southern Syria as Syrian forces clash with Druze militias

Associated Press

This frame grab from a video provided on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024, shows United Nations' special envoy to Syria, Geir Pederson speaking to journalists upon his arrival to Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo)

U.N. envoy calls for sanctions relief to help rebuild Syria after Assad’s ouster

By Abby Sewell - Associated Press

Syrians celebrate the arrival of opposition fighters in Damascus, Syria, Sunday Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Syrian government appears to have fallen in stunning end to 50-year rule of Assad family

By Bassem Mroue and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Trucks loaded with United Nations humanitarian aid for Syria following a devastating earthquake are parked at Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, in Syria's Idlib province, on Feb. 10, 2023. On Tuesday, July 11, 2023, the U.N. Security Council failed to renew the Bab al-Hawa border crossing into opposition-held northwestern Syria from Turkey. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)

Syria greenlights U.N. to keep two crossings from Turkey to rebel-held northwest open for aid

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press