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  • TOPSHOT - This picture taken on January 8, 2026 shows columns of smoke rising from Aleppo's Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighborhoods amid intense clashes between government forces and the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) forces. Syria's military warned civilians in two besieged Kurdish neighbourhoods in the city of Aleppo to leave on December 8, as it prepared to conduct a fresh wave of strikes targeting Kurdish positions. Thousands have already fled the area following clashes between the army and Kurdish-led forces that have killed more than a dozen people. (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Syrian army launches new strikes in Aleppo as fighting with Kurdish-led SDF intensifies
  • A US airman attaches a GBU-31 munitions system to an F-15E Strike Eagle on December 19, 2025, as the US military launched large-scale strikes against dozens of ISIS targets in Syria.
    U.S. Air Force/Reuters
    Roughly two dozen ISIS operatives killed or captured since US retaliatory strikes this month
  • Members of the Alawite community gather to protest violence against Alawites following the Homs mosque bombing, in the city of Latakia, Syria, 28 December 2025. The protesters gathered against attacks targeting the Alawite community after a bombing at the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque in an Alawite neighborhood of Homs province on 26 December, in which at least eight people were killed and more than a dozen injured. Syrian Alawites protest in Latakia after mosque bombing, Syria - 28 Dec 2025
    Ahmad Fallaha/EPA/Shutterstock
    Three dead, dozens injured in Syria during clashes between Alawites and counterdemonstrators
  • Armed men stand near holy Muslim Quran books and broken glass following an explosion inside Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque in the Syrian city of Homs on December 26, 2025.
    Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images
    Eight killed in Syria mosque explosion during Friday prayers
  • A general view of the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on March 21, 2025.
    Kent Nishimura/Reuters
    US conducts strikes in Syria in response to attack that killed two American soldiers
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    Live Updates December 19, 2025 — Trump administration news, president’s speech in North Carolina
  • President Donald Trump boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on December 13, 2025. Trump said there will be "serious retaliation" after two US soldiers and an interpreter were killed in Syria.
    Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg/Getty Images
    In wake of Syria attack that killed two US soldiers, Trump faces complicated ally and echoes of Afghanistan
  • President Donald Trump listens during a ceremony for the presentation of the Mexican Border Defense Medal in the Oval Office of the White House on December 15, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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    Trump expands travel ban list to 39 countries
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  • Syrian government forces intervene in Sweida on July 20, amid sectarian violence between Druze factions and Bedouin tribes.
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    Israeli strikes left Syria ‘stunned’ and makes normalization ‘difficult,’ Syrian foreign minister says
    Sep 28, 2025
  • Syrians elect new members of the Parliament in Damascus on July 15, 2024.
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    Syria to hold parliamentary ballot in September as first elections since Assad’s removal
    Jul 27, 2025
  • This September 2024 photo shows US forces patrolling oil fields in Syria.
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    US military kills ISIS leader in Syria
    Jul 25, 2025
  • Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump as they pose together at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1997.
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    As the Epstein saga rages, Trump is getting a pass on his role in the building famine in Gaza
    Jul 25, 2025
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    Video Video shows aftermath of explosion at Syrian mosque 0:28
    Dec 26, 2025
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    Video US strikes targets in Syria 0:33
    Dec 19, 2025
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    Video Syria’s leader: From a $10M bounty on his head to a White House guest 1:42
    Nov 10, 2025
  • <p>In the context of months of Israeli airstrikes on Syria, Fareed speaks with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani at the Council on Foreign Relations about whether peace with its neighbor is possible.</p>
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    Video On GPS: Syria’s foreign minister on the prospects for peace with Israel 5:46
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