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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.

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Israel hits dozens of Iranian targets in Syria after barrage

by Sarah El Deeb Associated Press, and Aron Heller Associated PressMay 10, 2018

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Alaeddin Boroujerdi, left, the head of Iran's parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 30, 2018. The meeting came as a missile attack targeting government outposts in Syria's northern region killed at least 26 pro-government fighters, mostly Iranians, amid soaring Mideast tensions. (SANA via AP)

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Missile strikes in Syria kill over a dozen, mostly Iranians

by Bassem Mroue Associated Press, and Sarah El Deeb Associated PressApril 30, 2018

A U.S. soldier sits on his armored vehicle on a road leading to the tense front line with Turkish-backed fighters, April 4, 2018, in Manbij, north Syria. Even as President Donald Trump mulls a U.S. pullout, insisting that the Islamic State is “almost completely defeated,” the extremist group is showing signs of resurgence in Syria. Talk of a U.S. troop withdrawal has alarmed the Unites States’ main ally in Syria, the Kurds, who fought alongside the Americans to roll back the Islamic State group.

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As Trump mulls a pullout, IS attempts to re-emerge in Syria

by Sarah El Deeb Associated Press, and Philip Issa Associated PressApril 5, 2018

In this picture taken on Thursday, March 29, 2018, U.S. troop's humvee passes vehicles of fighters from the U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council on a road leading to the tense front line with Turkish-backed fighters, at Halawanji village, north of Manbij town, Syria. The front line has grown more tense in recent days as Turkey threatens to advance on the town to clear it of the U.S-backed fighters. U.S troops have increased their patrols in the area, local commanders say, to...

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Syria bomb kills 2 coalition troops from US, UK

by Sarah El Deeb Associated Press, and Robert Burns Associated PressMarch 30, 2018

In this photo taken on Wednesday, March 28, 2018, a member of the Kurdish internal security forces patrols a commercial street in Manbij, north Syria. Manbij, a mixed Arab and Kurdish town of nearly 400,000, was liberated from Islamic State militants in 2016 by the YPG fighters with backing from U.S-led coalition airstrikes. With Turkey's threats, the town has become the axle for U.S. policy in Syria, threatening its prestige and military deployment in eastern Syria.

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A Syrian town, threatened by Turkey, counts on US backing

by Sarah El Deeb Associated PressMarch 29, 2018

Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army soldiers walk in 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 "total" 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.

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Turkey says its forces have seized the Syrian town of Afrin

by Zeynep Bilginsoy Associated Press, and Sarah El Deeb Associated PressMarch 18, 2018

This photo released Tuesday, March 13, 2018, by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows members of the White Hemets removing a body after airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. The Syrian government and the Russian military have set up a corridor outside eastern Ghouta to arrange the evacuation from the area which is home to some 400,000 people. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

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Turkish shelling on Kurdish Afrin intensifies, kills 7

by Sarah El Deeb Associated Press, and Philip Issa Associated PressMarch 15, 2018

This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense group and civilians gathering to help survivors from a street attacked by airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Friday, March. 2, 2018.

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Syrian troops advance in rebel-held region near capital

by Sarah El Deeb Associated PressMarch 4, 2018

This frame grab from video released on Thursday, March. 1, 2018, by Firas Abdullah, Syrian activist, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows children playing in an underground basement in Douma town that is used by civilians as shelter during the Syrian government offensive on in the eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, Syria.

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In Syria’s Ghouta, shelters are tombs for the living

by Sarah El Deeb Associated PressMarch 4, 2018

This photo, released on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018, by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense group and civilians gathering to help survivors from a street attacked by airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. A new wave of airstrikes and shelling on eastern suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus left at least 22 people dead and more than a dozen wounded Saturday, raising the death toll of a week of bombing in the area to nearly 500, including scores of women and children.

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Still no cease-fire in Syrian enclave; Russia orders a pause

by Sarah El Deeb Associated Press, and Bassem Mroue Associated PressFebruary 26, 2018