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  • 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.
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    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
  • Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, left, and Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard.
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    US identifies two soldiers killed in ambush in Syria
  • President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable discussion with farmers at the White House on December 8, 2025.
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  • This file photo shows an abandoned, burned-out tank in the middle of a desert near the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025.
    Ghaith Alsayed/AP
    Trump pledges retaliation after two US soldiers, one civilian interpreter killed in Syria
  • Syrians shout slogans and wave flags outside the Umayyad Mosque before a prayer held ahead of celebrations marking the first anniversary of the ousting of the Bashar Assad regime in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025.
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    A year on from the ousting of Assad, Syrians remember the pain but rejoice at their freedom
  • Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa speaks as he attends the 23rd edition of the annual Doha Forum, in Doha, Qatar, December 6, 2025.
    Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
    Syrian president says Israel is ‘fighting ghosts’ and must abide by deconfliction accord
  • A damaged site, following an Israeli raid on Friday, according to Syrian state media, in Beit Jinn, Syria November 28, 2025. REUTERS/Ali Ahmed al-Najjar  NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
    Ali Ahmed al-Najjar/Reuters
    Israel’s deadly incursion in Syria a ‘war crime’ after 13 killed, Syrian FM says
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  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks during a dinner in the Blue Room of the White House with US President Donald Trump on July 7 in Washington, DC.
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    Trump ‘caught off guard’ by Israel’s actions in Gaza and Syria last week as skepticism of Netanyahu grows inside White House
    Jul 21, 2025
  • Members of Internal Security Forces stand guard at an Internal Security Forces' checkpoint working to prevent Bedouin fighters from advancing towards Suwayda,  Syria on Sunday.
    Karam al-Masri/Reuters
    Ceasefire in southern Syria appears to be holding as US demands Damascus end violence
    Jul 20, 2025
  • Houthi fighters take part in a parade in Sanaa, Yemen, in December 2024.
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    ‘Nothing has changed’: Iran tries to rearm proxy groups as US talks stall
    Jul 19, 2025
  • Black smoke billows in the distance on July 15, 2025 near Suwayda, Syria.
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    What’s behind deadly clashes in Syria - and why did Israel intervene?
    Jul 19, 2025
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  • <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
    Sep 28, 2025
  • <p>Fareed sits down with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani at the Council on Foreign Relations to discuss his transition from rebel to statesman and the future of religious minorities in Syria.</p>
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    Video On GPS: Syrian FM on the country’s post-Assad future 5:43
    Sep 28, 2025
  • This aerial view shows smoke rising in the city of Suwayda in southern Syria's Druze majority province on July 19, 2025. At least 718 people have been killed in Syria's Suwayda province, a war monitor said on July 19 in an updated toll for nearly a week of violence in the heartland of the Druze minority.
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    Video As Syria’s president gains global recognition, Druze minority in the country is still haunted by violence in Suwayda 6:48
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