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U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters stands on their vehicles, as they withdraw from two neighbourhoods in Syria's northern city of Aleppo as part of a deal with the Syrian central government, in Aleppo, Syria, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Kurdish fighters leave northern city in Syria as part of deal with central government
Scores of U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters have left two neighborhoods in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo part of a deal with the central government in Damascus.
 
Confetti and flowers are dropped from a military helicopter onto a crowd during a celebration marking the 10th anniversary of the victory of rebel forces over Bashar al-Assad's army in Idlib, Syria, Friday, March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Syria swears in new transitional government 4 months after Assad’s removal
Syria’s new transitional government has been sworn in nearly four months after the Assad family was removed from power and as the new authorities in Damascus work to bring back stability to the war-ton country.
 
The body of Muhannad Akrad, one of three people killed in Israeli airstrikes on Monday, is carried for burial at the Omary mosque in Daraa, southern Syria, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
Mourners attend funeral of man killed in Israeli airstrikes on Syrian city of Daraa
Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of one of the victims of an Israeli airstrike on the Syrian city of Daraa, in which three people were killed.
 
Family members hold pictures of their relatives who disappeared in the nearly 14-year Syrian civil war, during a protest calling on the interim government to not give up on efforts to find them, in the city of Daraa, Syria, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
Families of Syrians who disappeared during its civil war say the search must go on
Family members of Syrians who disappeared in the 14-year civil war have called on the newly installed interim government to not give up on efforts to find them.
 
A Syrian army helicopter throws flowers and confetti on a group of demonstrators marking the 14th anniversary of the start of the uprising against Bashar Assad's regime in March 2011, in Umayyad square, Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Syrians mark 14th anniversary of civil war uprising by celebrating the ouster of Bashar Assad
Thousands of Syrians have poured into the streets and public squares to mark 14 years since the country’s civil war began, the first without Bashar Assad in power.
 
Syria's interim president Ahmad Al-Sharaa, center, prepares to sign a temporary constitution for the country in Damascus, Syria, Thursday March 13, 2025. At left, is Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shiban. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)
Syrian leader signs constitution that puts the country under an Islamist group’s rule for 5 years
Syria’s interim president has signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase.
 
Participants in Syria's national dialogue conference gather at the Dama Rose hotel in Damascus, Syria, Monday Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)
Syrians express hope and skepticism as national dialogue conference kicks off
A long-awaited national dialogue conference intended to help chart Syria’s political future after the fall of former President Bashar Assad is set to begin.
 
A member of the Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets) takes a photo of his colleague holding the new Syrian flag at the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Experts push to restore Syria’s war-torn heritage sites, including renowned Roman ruins at Palmyra
Experts are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites, hoping to lay the groundwork for restoring them and reviving tourism. They say that could provide a much-needed boost to the country’s decimated economy after nearly 14 years of war.
 
Dr. Mohammad Fares, right, watches a man close the Sarmada Health Center, in Sarmada district, north of Idlib city, Syria, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Trump’s foreign aid freeze forces health clinics in a vulnerable region of Syria to close
The Trump administration’s abrupt freeze in foreign aid has closed health clinics offering free care in one of Syria’s most vulnerable regions.
 
In this photo released by Syrian State TV, four suspects arrested in connection with an alleged plot by ISIS are shown standing against a wall in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. Syrian intelligence officials, operating under the country's new de facto government, thwarted an attempt by ISIS to detonate a bomb at the Shiite shrine of Sayyida Zaynab in the Damascus suburb, according to state media reports on Saturday.(Syrian State TV via AP)
Syrian intelligence agency says it thwarted a planned Islamic State attack on a Shiite shrine
Intelligence officials in Syria’s new de facto government say they have thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shiite shrine in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab.
 
FILE.- Syrians sing and wave post-Assad flags during a concert by the recently returned "revolutionary" singer Wasfi Maasrani in Damascus Wednesday Jan. 8, 2025..(AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed,File)
Syrians celebrate a month since Assad’s overthrow with revolutionary songs in Damascus
A packed concert hall in Damascus came alive this week with cheers as Wasfi Maasarani, a renowned singer and symbol of the Syrian uprising, performed in celebration of “Syria’s victory.”
 
People stand outside their homes at a residential area as members of the new security forces take part in an operation to detain, according to the state media, militiamen affiliated with ousted president Bashar Assad in Homs, Syria, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
AP PHOTOS: Syria’s new security forces conduct sweeps in Homs, looking for ousted Assad’s loyalists
Syria’s new security forces have deployed in tanks in the city of Homs to search for militia members and former soldiers loyal to ousted President Bashar Assad who have refused to surrender their weapons.
 
Balloon sellers wait for customers near Al-Hamidiyeh Souq on New Years Eve, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
A new year dawns on a Middle East torn by conflict and change
The streets were buzzing with excitement in Damascus as Syrians welcomed in a new year that seemed to many to bring a promise of a brighter future after the unexpected fall of Bashar Assad’s government weeks earlier.
 
A banner with an image depicting the ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad is placed on the fire as a Syrian member of the rebel forces destroys drugs and alcoholic beverages, found at a complex building, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
Clashes between Islamists now in power in Syria and Assad’s supporters kill 6 fighters
A British-based war monitor said clashes between Islamists who took over Syria and supporters of ousted President Bashar Assad’s government have killed six Islamic fighters and wounded others.
 
A Syrian man, left, waves a white flag as he approaches Israeli soldiers to negotiate with them, where they set their new position at an abandoned Syrian military base, in Maariyah village near the border with Israel, in southern Syria, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Syrian villagers near the Golan Heights say Israeli forces are banning them from their fields
Residents of a Syrian village near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights say Israeli forces have set up a position in an abandoned army base and are preventing local farmers from accessing their fields.
 
A Syrian journalist who reports for international agencies is arrested by Turkish-backed authorities
A local journalist in rebel-held northwestern Syria who works with international news agencies has been arrested by Turkish-backed authorities. That’s according to his wife and rights groups.
 
This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)
US military says drone strike in Syria kills a Saudi militant from an al-Qaida-linked group
The U.S. military and a war monitor say a drone strike in northwest Syria has killed a Saudi extremist from an al-Qaida-linked group. The strike on Friday was carried out by a U.S.
 
This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)
Crossing between a government and opposition-held area in Syria closes after violence
A key crossing in Syria between an area held by the government and one held by the opposition has been closed again after violence followed its brief reopening this week.
 
This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo)
Syria’s main insurgent group blasts the US Embassy over its criticism of crackdown on protesters
The main insurgent group in rebel-held northwest Syria has blasted the United States over its criticism of a crackdown on protesters in areas outside government control.
 
A Syrian protester holds up a placard during a protest against al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group in Binnish town, in Idlib province, Syria, Friday, May 17, 2024. Members of Syria's most powerful insurgent group in the country's rebel-held northwest fired bullets in the air and beat up protesters with clubs Friday injuring some of them as weekslong protests demanding release of detainees and an end to the group's rule intensified. The placard shows drawings of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the late Islamic State group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Abu Mohammed al-Golani leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, once linked to al-Qaida and the Arabic writing reads: "Assad = Baghdadi = al-Golani. The faces are different but the crime is one." (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Protests against powerful group persist in Syria’s last major rebel stronghold
Members of Syria’s most powerful insurgent group in the country’s rebel-held northwest have fired bullets in the air and beaten up protesters with clubs, injuring some of them.
 
Khalil Al-Sawadi holds a one-year-old Afraa al-Sudani at his home in Jinderis, Syria, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. Afraa was pulled alive from the rubble of her family's house in the town of Jinderis in northern Syria, still attached by an umbilical cord to her dead mother on February 6, 2023, after a devastating earthquake hit Turkey and Syria. Afraa is the only surviving member of her immediate family. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
A year after Syria’s deadly earthquake, orphaned children adjust to the loss bit by bit
Aya al-Sudani will mark her first birthday on Tuesday. A year ago, the newborn girl was pulled alive from the rubble of her family’s house in northern Syria.
 
Khalil al-Sawadi plays with his adopted daughter Afraa in Jinderis, Syria, on Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023. Afraa was born under the rubble of her family home, destroyed by the deadly earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria six months ago, killing her parents and siblings. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Syrian baby born under earthquake rubble turns 6 months, happily surrounded by her adopted family
A baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family home destroyed by the deadly earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria six months ago is in good health with her adopted family.
 
Russia strike kills at least 6 al-Qaida militants in Syria, medical officials, war monitor say
Medical officials and an opposition war monitor say a Russian airstrike struck a military post of an al-Qaida-linked group in northwest Syria killing at least six militants.
 
Airstrike hits busy market in opposition-held northwestern Syria and kills at least 9 people
Activists and first responders in Syria say an airstrike over a busy vegetable market in the northwest has killed at least nine people.
 
FILE - 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. A convoy carrying United Nations aid entered opposition-held Idlib from government-held Syria Friday, June 23, 2023, the first such shipment to cross battle lines since a deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria in February. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)
UN aid enters Syrian rebel enclave from government territory in first such crossing since earthquake
A convoy carrying U.N. aid has entered Syria’s last rebel-held enclave from government-held territory, the first such shipment to cross battle lines since February’s deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria.