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People who lost their houses in the devastating earthquake, lineup to receive aid supplies at a makeshift camp, in Iskenderun city, southern Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023.
Global Politics
‘Assad can’t clean up his act with a natural disaster,’ US Amb. to UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield says
people at gas pump
Protest
Renewed calls in Syria to overthrow Assad regime
Firefighters hose down a burning building after bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 3, 2022. Russian forces have seized a strategic Ukrainian seaport and besieged another. Those moves are part of efforts to cut the country off from its coastline even as Mosco
Ukraine
For many Syrians, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine feels painfully familiar
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad heads a cabinet meeting, in Damascus, Syria
Economics
Report: Syrian government manipulates exchange rates to pocket aid money
A Syrian grocery shop in Istanbul sells brands that are familiar to Syrian customers, such as canned meats and condensed milk.
Migration
Syrian refugees and migrants in Turkey face a difficult decision to return home 
People wearing masks stand in front of white bags of food aid
Conflict & Justice
Russia’s vote at UN could cut off humanitarian aid to northwest Syria
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken are show sitting in opposite armchairs with two wooden side tables between them.
Top of The World
Blinken continues diplomatic mission in the Middle East
A person is shown in the near ground with their fist in the air and wearing a white construction helmet with a large crowd of people sitting and holding candles.
Top of The World
Myanmar declares martial law on deadly day
People walk past the looted premises of cellphone company Syriatel, which is owned by Rami Makhlouf, the cousin of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in Deraa March 21, 2011.
Conflict
Syria’s first family is caught in a feud
A man is shown sitting and bent over while pulling his hood over his head and another man sitting next to him pointing.
Top of The World
High-profile Syrian war crimes trial opens; Countries debate rescue packages, billionaires ask for bailouts; Missouri sues China over economic coronavirus losses
Syrian defendant Eyad A. hides himself under his hood prior to the first trial of suspected members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's security services for crimes against humanity, in Koblenz, Germany, April 23, 2020.
Conflict & Justice
Syrian officials on trial for war crimes in Germany
A large portrait photograph is show of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad with several Syrian flags flying behind it.
Violence
First Syria torture trial opens in Germany
A large helicopter is shown in the distance making its landing approach with the shadow of soldiers in the nearground.
Top of The World
ICC says US can be investigated for war crimes; Putin and Erdoğan hold talks over Syria; Governments, businesses take measures to halt spread of COVID-19
Several Syria soldiers are shown walking alongside and riding on a tank in a dirt road.
Military
Syrian forces consolidate control of Aleppo, air strikes under way
Portrait of foreign correspondent and author Sam Dagher.
Conflict
How Syria’s Assad regime clings to power
Older women hold a cartoon graphic depicting Donald Trump and a Turkish tank.
Does US withdrawal leave Syria open to Russia?
Vladimir Putin walks between two rows of people clapping their hands and taking photos with their cell phones
Conflict & Justice
20 years of Putin in power: A timeline
Two displaced Syrian girls is shown sitting on a mat and one holding a baby.
Conflict & Justice
Fleeing into the fields, a family runs from Idlib attacks
woman wearing military fatigues holds a gun
Thousands of ISIS fighters sit in prison. Kurdish leaders call for a special tribunal.
A woman walks wearing jeans and a plaid shirt is shown near a picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.
Conflict & Justice
Syria’s Assad struggles to reap spoils after military gains
Men sit around a table.
Global Politics
Lebanon: The lynchpin in Syria’s conflict
The grave of Russian private military contractor Sergei Gancherov is shown adorned with flowers and his photograph on a cross.
Conflict & Justice
After a deadly Syrian battle, evidence of Russian losses was obscured
A huge banner of Bashar al-Assad.
Global Politics
Garbage collection in Syria is crucial to fighting ISIS
President Donald Trump is shown walking with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan with his right hand raised waving at the camera.
Syrian surprise: How Trump’s phone call changed the war
Smoke is shown with red backlighting rising past a mountain range as seen from the Damascus, Syria, countryside.
Syria state media says Israeli planes attack targets near Damascus
women stand in a row, chanting and clapping their hands
Syrian Kurds left behind as Trump pulls out US troops
the sign of the Radio Fresh station
Justice
Syrian activist Raed Fares wanted ‘a free Syria for all Syrians.’ It may have cost him his life.
a child plays at a camp in Idlib, Syria
US Diplomacy
Is US policy in Syria driven by politics or emotion?
A street filled with cars in the rebel-held Idlib city, Syria, shown from above on June 8, 2017.
Conflict & Justice
Trump warns Syria not to ‘recklessly attack’ Idlib province
Putin
Global Politics
Kim Jong-un’s next summits will apparently be with Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad
The Yarmouk Palestinian camp near Damascus, Syria, April 28, 2018.
Conflict
Palestinian refugees bear the brunt of Syria’s new battle against ISIS
Soldiers loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad are seen running toward the camera with one carrying the Sryian flag.
Assad renews offensive as missile strikes raise escalation risk
A missile is seen crossing over Damascus, Syria, April 14, 2018.
Conflict
US says it’s ready to strike Syria again if there is further use of chemical weapons
USS Donald Cook sails in the Bosphorus strait in Istanbul with a long cable bridge in the background.
Conflict
Trump says Syria attack ‘could be very soon or not so soon’
A man is washed following alleged chemical weapons attack, in what is said to be Duma, Syria in this still image from video obtained by Reuters on April 8, 2018.
Conflict
Russia accuses Israel over strike on Syrian air base
russia
Conflict
Secret flights and private fighters: How Russia supports Assad in Syria
Alexander Borodai (C), former prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, poses with delegates during the Union of Donbass Volunteers congress in Moscow, Russia, Oct. 10, 2015.
Conflict
Russia’s shadow armies: Soldiers, mercenaries or volunteers?
Children watch as an aid convoy of Syrian Arab Red Crescent drives through the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria March 5, 2018.
Conflict
Aid reaches Ghouta but retreats after shelling; Syria continues air and ground attack
A man holds a child after an airstrike in eastern Ghouta, Syria, Feb. 7, 2018. In the Damascus suburb, besieged by government forces since 2013, about 78 civilians were killed by airstrikes and artillery fire on Tuesday, according to monitors. A further 2
Conflict
Syria’s war enters a dangerous new phase
A girl is seen in an ambulance during medical evacuation from eastern Ghouta late Tuesday.
Conflict
Children with cancer among patients evacuated from besieged Syrian district
Russia's President Vladimir Putin meets his new friend, Egypt's President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in Cairo on Monday
Global Politics
Russia’s influence in the Middle East is growing
A man visits a cemetery on the first day of Eid al-Adha in Douma, near Damascus, Syria, Sept. 24, 2015.
Conflict
Syria’s civil war has created a black market for burial plots — and prices are soaring
Staffan de Mistura
Conflict
There’s ‘higher potential’ for achieving peace in Syria, UN envoy says
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani casts his vote during the presidential election in Tehran, Iran, May 19, 2017.
Conflict
Iran’s Rouhani wins the presidency again. Syria’s Assad is pleased.
A fuel stand in rebel-held, besieged Eastern Ghouta, Syria, Feb. 12, 2017.
Business
The lucrative business of smuggling supplies into Syria’s besieged Eastern Ghouta
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaking during a previous interview with Croatian newspaper Vecernji List in Damascus, Syria, April 6.
Conflict
Interview: Syria’s Assad says US ‘fabricated’ chemical attack to justify strikes
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad gestures while parliament members clap in Damascus, Syria on June 7, 2016.
Conflict
Syria’s Bashar al-Assad: Rex Tillerson is ‘hallucinating’
Mike Mullen
Conflict
Former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen says the US must keep the door open with Moscow
Bashar al-Assad
Conflict
President Trump, can the US act as global police and put ‘America first’?
A man carries the body of a dead child, after what rescue workers described as a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib, Syria, April 4, 2017.
Conflict
President Trump, you bombed Assad for killing ‘beautiful babies.’ Why won’t you accept refugee kids?
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaks during an interview with Yahoo News in this handout picture provided by SANA on February 10, 2017, Syria.
Conflict
Lack of political will stands in the way of bringing Assad to court
Syria chemical weapons 2014
Conflict
World powers condemn Assad’s regime as Russia protects it
Syria
Conflict
If Assad stayed, could Syria ever rebuild from war?
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad speaks during a meeting of the Central Bar Association in Damascus, Syria, Feb. 15, 2016.
Conflict
#20: @realDonaldTrump Do you support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad remaining in power? #100Days100Qs
People walk past a damaged building in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria.
Conflict
A major water crisis in Syria’s capital worsens as fighting continues
US soldiers ride a military vehicle in al-Kherbeh village, northern Aleppo province, Syria on Oct. 24.
Conflict
‘World War III’? How Trump and Clinton measure up on Syria
A Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter points towards blue sheets spread over streets as a cover from snipers as he walks on the rubble of damaged buildings in Manbij, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria, August 7, 2016.
Conflict
Both sides brace for a crucial battle over Syria’s Aleppo
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad during an interview in 2015
Justice
Document leak in Syria ‘enough to convict Assad of war crimes’
Samia Abdullah holds up a picture of her brother Emad who disappeared in 1984 when he was 20 years old. His family thinks he's still alive in a Syrian prison.
Conflict
‘I just want one hair, one bone to bury, and I will be fine’
A hesitant deal in Munich. Secretary of State John Kerry prepares to shake hands with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.
Conflict
Ceasefire in Syria doesn’t hold promise for this professor