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

Question of Druze independence looms large as Damascus consolidates power

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows women and children who has been liberated from the Islamic State group in the Hamima area east of the historic town of Palmyra, Syria, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Syrian troops have liberated 19 women and children hostages held by the Islamic State group since July in a military operation in the country's center, ending a crisis that has stunned Syria's Druze minority, state media reported today. (SANA via AP)

Ex-IS captive recalls captivity, seeing her son killed

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

This photo provided early Thursday, May 10, 2018, by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows missiles rise into the sky as Israeli missiles hit air defense position and other military bases, in Damascus, Syria. The Israeli military on Thursday said it attacked "dozens" of Iranian targets in neighboring Syria in response to an Iranian rocket barrage on Israeli positions in the Golan Heights, in the most serious military confrontation between the two bitter enemies to date. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP)

Israel, Iran closer to war after missile barrages

By Seth J. Frantzman and Carlo Munoz — The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House on Friday, April 13, 2018, in Washington, about the United States' military response to Syria's chemical weapon attack on April 7. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

The Latest: Russia: Missiles aimed at Syrian air base downed

Associated Press

UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura informs the media one day before the resumption of the negotiations between the Syrian government and the opposition, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 15, 2017. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Syrian activists: Airstrikes on IS-held areas kill dozens

By PHILIP ISSA and JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during his annual news conference in Moscow, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. Russia on Tuesday argued strongly against Turkey's demand to keep a leading Kurdish group out of Syria's peace talks, and said it expects the U.N. envoy to resist what he called &quot;blackmail&quot; by Turkey and others, reflecting sharp differences that remain ahead of the scheduled talks. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

The Latest: Russia says Aleppo escape corridors under fire

Associated Press

This image posted on the Twitter page of Syria's al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front on Saturday, April 25, 2015, which is consistent with AP reporting, shows Nusra Front fighters in the town of Jisr al-Shughour, Idlib province, Syria. Hard-line Syrian rebel groups entered the strategic town Saturday in northwestern Syria, sending government troops fleeing after intense clashes that have seen them take nearly all of a crucial province. Syria's civil war, now in its fifth year, has killed some 220,000 people, and wounded at least 1 million. (Al-Nusra Front Twitter page via AP)

Syrian air raids target rebel-held town in northwest

Associated Press

This undated file photo provided by the Kassig Family shows Peter Kassig standing in front of a truck filled with supplies for Syrian refugees. A new graphic video purportedly produced by Islamic State militants in Syria released Sunday Nov. 16, 2014 claims U.S. aid worker Kassig was beheaded. (AP Photo/Courtesy Kassig Family, File) — FILE

Peter Kassig beheaded in Islamic State video; American aid worker latest murder of Westerner

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Monday, March 24, 2014 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian soldiers carry the coffin of the commander of the pro-government National Defense Forces Hilal Assad, during his funeral at a hospital in Latakia province, Syria. State TV reported late Sunday that Hilal Assad was killed in the fighting against opposition fighters in Kassab. The commander was a member of Syrian President Bashar Assad's family but the TV did not say if they were close relatives. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian rebels battle deeper into coastal province

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

A wounded Israeli soldier is brought to a hospital in Haifa, Israel, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. A roadside bomb hit an Israeli patrol near the frontier with the Golan Heights on Tuesday, the army said, wounding four soldiers in the most serious violence to strike the area since the Syrian conflict began three years ago. Israel said it responded with artillery strikes on Syrian army targets. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed the strategic area in a move that was not internationally recognized. (AP Photo/Hertzel Shapira) ****ISRAEL OUT***

Israeli airstrikes kill 1 Syrian soldier, wound 7

By Albert Aji - Associated Press

Ready: A Super Hornet is prepared to launch from the USS Nimitz. The carrier was scheduled to return home but was ordered to stay in the Red Sea. (U.S. Navy via associated press)

Syria creates a Russian safe zone, civilian danger zones

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Military launches offensive on outskirts of Damascus, killing 12

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem watches videos of corpses during a news conference Monday to bolster the Syrian regime's contention that armed gangs are behind the country's violence. A U.N. probe condemns the regime for violence against protesters.

Syrian forces abused, killed kids, report says

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

**FILE** Syrian President Bashar Assad (Associated Press)

Hackers hit Syrian government websites

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Syrian security forces carry out raids, arrests

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Syrian FM pledges elections by year’s end

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press