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Syrian troops sit atop a tank as they head towards the Syrian-Lebanese border following clashes with Lebanese soldiers and armed groups, in Qusayr, Syria, March 17, 2025. REUTERS/Karam al-Masri
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Israel strikes Syria, saying it hit group that attacked Druze

A Syrian Interior Ministry source told Reuters Israeli drone strikes targeted government security forces, killing one of their members, in the mainly Druze town of Sahnaya on Damascus' outskirts

Security forces loyal to the interim Syrian government on a vehicle moving along a road in Syria's western city of Latakia. Photo: Collecetd
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Saudi Arabia, Qatar to settle Syria's World Bank debt

Smoke rises, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, December 8, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo
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Syrian letter delivers response to US conditions for sanctions relief

A satellite image, according to Reuters analysis, shows the C5-SKY jet taxiing to the runway before its flight out of Syria, at Hmeimim air base, Syria on 8 December 2024. 2025 Planet Labs PBC/Handout via Reuters
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Operation Assad: The air mission to smuggle the Syrian despot's valuables

Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa attends an interview with Reuters at the presidential palace, in Damascus, Syria March 10, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi/File Photo
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Saudi Arabia plans to pay off Syria's World Bank debts: sources

File photo of Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa/BSS
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Syria welcomes UN resolution to investigate human-rights violations

Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa attends an interview with Reuters at the presidential palace, in Damascus, Syria March 10, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi/File Photo
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Syria's president al-Sharaa forms new transitional government

Syrian troops sit atop a tank as they head towards the Syrian-Lebanese border following clashes with Lebanese soldiers and armed groups, in Qusayr, Syria, March 17, 2025. REUTERS/Karam al-Masri
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Clashes erupt on Lebanon-Syria border after 3 Syrian soldiers killed

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani meets for the first regular session of the Council of Ministers in Baghdad, Iraq 28 October 2022. Photo: Reuters
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Iraqi PM says Islamic State leader for Iraq and Syria killed

A person holds flags as people celebrate after the Kurdish-led and US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which controls much of Syria's oil-rich northeast, has signed a deal agreeing to integrate into Syria's new state institutions, the Syrian presidency said on Monday, in Damascus, Syria March 11, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi/File Photo
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US steered Syrian Kurds towards Damascus deal: sources

A Canadian flag flies in front of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, March 22, 2017/ Reuters
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Canada eases Syria sanctions, names ambassador

Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Commander of Syrian Kurdish-led forces Mazloum Abdi shake hands, after Syria reached a deal to integrate the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) with state institutions, the Syrian presidency said on Monday, in Damascus, Syria, in this handout released on March 10, 2025. Photo: SANA/Handout via REUTERS
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Syria's interim president signs deal with Kurdish-led SDF to merge forces

Members of the Syrian security forces secure an area, after hundreds were killed in some of the deadliest violence in 13 years of civil war, pitting loyalists of deposed President Bashar al-Assad against the country's new Islamist rulers in Latakia, Syria March 9, 2025. REUTERS/Karam al-Masri
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Syrian defence ministry says operation against Assad loyalists is over