The United Arab Emirates, a Saudi ally, reopened its embassy in Damascus in December
Saudi says too early to restore Syria ties
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srael has carried out hundreds of air strikes in Syria against what it says are Iranian and Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah targets
Israel, Russia discuss foreign forces pullout from Syria
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A fighter of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fires a weapon in Baghouz
Attack slows on IS Syria pocket to save civilians
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The loss of Baghouz, which the SDF says is only days away, would carry mostly symbolic value.
SDF pounds IS holdout
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Of the 8,500 horses that Syria registered with the World Arabian Horse Organization (WAHO) in 2011, it has lost 3,000 in the war
Syria’s war horses on long road to recovery
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Hareth Najem, an Iraqi orphan lies under a blanket in a truck, near the village of Baghouz, Deir Al Zor province, Syria March 1, 2019. Picture taken March 1, 2019.
Children escape IS-held village, wounded and alone
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Fighters of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stand together near the village of Baghouz, Deir Al Zor province, Syria March 1, 2019.
IS faces defeat in only territory it has left
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Witnesses said the 2018 attack killed 43 people.
Watchdog says chlorine used in attack on Syria's Douma
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Saddam, (R) a 15 year old Yazidi boy and ten other Yazidi children gather in a area held by the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, after fleeing the Islamic State (IS) group's embattled holdout of Baghouz, on February 23, 2019.Saddam, (R) a 15 year old Yezidi boy and ten other Yezidi children gather in a area held by the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, after fleeing the Islami
Yazidi children carry trauma of IS 'caliphate'
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu resets relations with Moscow on Syria
Geoffrey Aronson
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'Now it's 100 percent we just took over, 100 percent caliphate'
Trump says all IS territory in Syria retaken
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Men suspected of being Islamic State (IS) wait to be searched by members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after leaving the IS group's last holdout of Baghouz, in Syria's northern Deir Ezzor province on February 27, 2019.
Mass grave uncovered as civilians evacuate IS holdout
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People walk in front of a billboard with a picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Homs, Syria, September 18, 2018.
EU divided on Assad as he clings to power
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"We're not sure about the number of civilians still inside but everyday we're astonished by the number of people coming out."
US-backed Syria forces prepare for final assault on IS
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A woman visits the exhibition titled "Cultural Landscape of Syria - Preservation and Archiving in Times of War" at the Museum of Islamic Art in the Pergamon Museum on February 27, 2019 in Berlin.
Digital archive on show in Berlin hopes to help rebuild Syria
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A member of the Iraqi special forces puts on a watch belonging to a former Islamic State (IS) group fighter, bearing the group's logo, found by security forces in the Old City of Mosul, in the city's western industrial district on June 29, 2017.
Loyalties still linger for IS sympathisers
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