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A duck swims as Syrian men pray inside a mosque in the old town of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, April 12, 2016. Parliamentary elections will be held in Syria to elect the People's Council on 13 April 2016. The vote - expected to be a rubber stamp of President Bashar Assad's loyalists - will only proceed in government-controlled areas as the Damascus authorities are unable to organize any balloting in rebel-controlled areas or the territory under the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Syria pushes attack on eve of elections

by Zeina Karam Associated Press, and Philip Issa Associated PressApril 12, 2016

This image made from video published online by Amaq News Agency of the Islamic State group shows a cement factory where Islamic State militants snatched up to 300 cement workers and contractors from their workplace northeast of Damascus, Thursday.

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IS abducts dozens of factory workers

by Zeina Karam Associated Press, and Sarah El Deeb Associated PressApril 7, 2016

Russian Su-25 ground attack jets are parked after returning from Syria, at a Russian air base in Primorsko-Akhtarsk, southern Russia, Wednesday, March 16, 2016. More Russian planes returned from Syria on Wednesday, two days after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian military to withdraw most of its fighting forces from Syria, signaling an end to Russia's five-and-a-half month air campaign.(Olga Balashova/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

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Kurds declare de-facto federal region in Syria

by Zeina Karam Associated PressMarch 17, 2016