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In Syrian prison camps, families of Islamic State suspects await repatriation from Canada and elsewhere
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Saudi surge of diplomacy brings Assad, Zelensky to Arab summit
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is greeted by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, ahead of the Arab League summit, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, May 19, 2023. SANA/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.
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Arab governments vote for Syria’s return to the Arab League
In this photo released by Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, delegates and foreign ministers of member states convene at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May 7, 2023. The ministers are voting on restoring Syria's membership to the organization after it was suspended over a decade ago. The meeting comes after a rapid rapprochement between Syria and regional governments since February. (Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP)
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Efforts resuming to repatriate five missing Canadians from Syria, lawyer says
A lawyer working to repatriate Canadians from detention in Syria says there is fresh word about two women and three children who had been slated to return to Canada last month. A general view of Karama camp for internally displaced Syrians, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022 by the village of Atma, Idlib province, Syria. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/ AP - Omar Albam
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Conditions in Syria dire months after earthquake, aid officials say
FILE PHOTO: People ride a motorbike past buildings damaged by an earthquake that hit Syria on February 6, in the rebel-held town of Jandaris, Syria March 29, 2023. REUTERS/Mahmoud Hassano/File Photo
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Turkish forces killed leader of Islamic State group in Syria, Erdogan says
Turkish President and People's Alliance's presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during an election campaign rally in Ankara, on April 30, 2023. (Photo by Adem ALTAN / AFP) (Photo by ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Islamic State leader killed in Syria by Turkish intelligence services, Erdogan says
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a joint live broadcast of Turkish TV channels in Ankara, Turkey April 30, 2023. Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.
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Missing Canadian women and girls called family from Syrian camp, lawyer says
A general view of Karama camp for internally displaced Syrians, is shown Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, by the village of Atma, Idlib province, Syria. A Federal Court ruling that ordered the government to repatriate four Canadian men being held in Syrian camps is being put on temporary hold until an appeal process plays out. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Omar Albam
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Iran exploits quake relief mission to fly weapons to Syria, sources say
FILE PHOTO: People ride a motorbike past buildings damaged by an earthquake that hit Syria on February 6, in the rebel-held town of Jandaris, Syria March 29, 2023. REUTERS/Mahmoud Hassano/File Photo
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Two Canadian women who returned from camp in northeastern Syria to be released on bail
Women walk in Roj detention camp in northeast Syria Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. Two Canadian women who were arrested after returning to Canada from a prison camp in northeastern Syria last week are expected to appear in a Brampton, Ont., court today. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Baderkhan Ahmad
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Tensions build around Jerusalem shrine after Syria rockets
Jewish visitors walk past people reading the Koran, at the compound that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, while tension arises during clashes in Jerusalem's Old City, April 9, 2023. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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Israeli military says 3 rockets fired from Syria
Israeli security forces examine the scene of a shooting near the Israeli settlement of Hamra in West Bank at the Jordan Valley, Friday, April 7, 2023. Israeli medics say an alleged Palestinian shooting attack in the northern West Bank killed two women and seriously wounded another. The Israeli military said security forces were searching for the attacker. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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Iraq calls on Turkey to apologize for attack on Sulaymaniyah airport
This picture taken on January 26, 2019 shows journalists filming outside the departure lounge and control tower of Sulaymaniyah International Airport as its director announced the resumption of flights between the city and Turkey after a 16-month air blockade imposed by Ankara over a referendum on Iraqi Kurdish independence in September 2017. - Kurds in the administratively autonomous northern region overwhelmingly then voted for independence in a non-binding referendum that infuriated Baghdad as well as Iraq's neighbours, Turkey and Iran. (Photo by Shwan MOHAMMED / AFP)SHWAN MOHAMMED/AFP/Getty Images
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Canadian woman released from Syrian camp released on bail in Alberta
Women walk in the al-Hol camp that houses some 60,000 refugees, including families and supporters of the Islamic State group, many of them foreign nationals, in Syria, Saturday, May 1, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Baderkhan Ahmad
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Ottawa repatriates Canadian women, children detained in Syria, leaves other Canadians behind
People walk in the marketplace at al-Hol camp that houses some 60,000 refugees, including families and supporters of the Islamic State group, many of them foreign nationals, in Hasakeh province, Syria, Saturday, May 1, 2021.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Baderkhan Ahmad
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Lawyer blasts Ottawa for ‘preposterous’ delay in assessing Canadian woman in Syria
Women walk in Roj detention camp in northeast Syria Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. A lawyer working to bring a Quebec woman home from a Syrian prison camp along with her six children says it is "preposterous" that her departure is being held up by the government's failure to complete her security assessment. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Baderkhan Ahmad
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U.S. says its forces kill a senior Islamic State leader in Syria
The Syrian flag that Mohammad Al Masalma brought with him to Canada is seen in his home in Halifax on Monday, February 15, 2021. Darren Calabrese/The Globe and Mail
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Six Canadian children to return from Syrian detention without their mother, advocates say
A general view of Karama camp for internally displaced Syrians, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022 by the village of Atma, Idlib province, Syria. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Omar Albam
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Syrian says air defences confront Israeli attack over Homs area
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Ottawa says direction to bring men in Syria home amounts to ‘wholesale expansion’ of law
A general view of Karama camp for internally displaced Syrians, is shown Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, by the village of Atma, Idlib province, Syria. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Omar Albam
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Canadian detainees in Syria should be brought home immediately
Sharry Aiken, Paul Champ and Kent Roach
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Attacks on Iran-linked bases in Syria will draw swift response, spokesperson says
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Death toll in U.S. strikes on pro-Iran targets in Syria rises to 19, says war monitor
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testifies during a House subcommittee hearing on Defense Appropriations on Capitol Hill, in Washington on Thursday, March 23, 2023. The United States launched airstrikes in eastern Syria against militant sites linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps after a suspected Iranian drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded six other Americans, the Pentagon said. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times)
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U.S. vows to protect personnel in Syria after air strikes
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Joint Chiefs Chair Army General Mark Milley speaks with U.S. forces in Syria during an unannounced visit, at a U.S. military base in Northeast Syria, March 4, 2023. REUTERS/Phil Stewart/File Photo
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Drone strike kills U.S. contractor in Syria; U.S. retaliates
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin attends a U.S. House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee hearing on President Biden's proposed budget request for the Department of Defense, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 23, 2023. REUTERS/Michael A. McCoy
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Ottawa to allow temporary Syrian, Turkish residents to extend stay in Canada after earthquake
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Sean Fraser speaks during a news conference Wednesday, April 6, 2022 in Ottawa. The federal government says it will make it easier for temporary residents in Canada from Turkey and Syria to extend their stay in the country after a powerful earthquake struck their countries last month. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Pitching in: Raising money for earthquake relief efforts in Turkey and Syria
Sariye Sindy, preparing food for an upcoming fundraiser for the survivors of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria at the St John the Evangelist Church, in Kitchener, Ont., is photographed on Mar 16, 2023. Ontario, (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail) Sindy was visiting family in Turkey when the earthquakes hit the country, leaving over 45 000 dead.
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Assad would like more Russian bases and troops in Syria
(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 26, 2019, a Russian air force Sukhoi Su-35 fighter lands at the Russian military base of Hmeimim, located south-east of the city of Latakia in Hmeimim, in Syria's Latakia governorate. - Iran has announced finalising the contract for purchasing advanced Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets from Russia, state media reported as defence cooperation between the two countries deepens. (Photo by Maxime POPOV / AFP) (Photo by MAXIME POPOV/AFP via Getty Images)
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U.S., UN worry about quake aid after air strike on Aleppo airport
FILE PHOTO: A Saudi aid plane is seen, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, at Aleppo airport, Syria February 14, 2023. REUTERS/Firas Makdesi/File Photo
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Earthquakes caused US$5.1-billion in damage in Syria, World Bank estimates
People stans by a building destroyed in recent earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
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Turkey to widen investigation into building contractors as earthquake death toll rises
Workers clean the rubble of a collapsed building in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Antakya, Hatay province, Turkey, February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani
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Shamima Begum, British-born woman who joined Islamic State in Syria, loses appeal over revoked citizenship
FILE PHOTO: Renu Begum, sister of teenage British girl Shamima Begum, holds a photo of her sister as she makes an appeal for her to return home at Scotland Yard, in London, Britain February 22, 2015. REUTERS/Laura Lean/Pool/File Photo
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Rocket strike in Damascus hit meeting of Iranian military experts, sources say
FILE PHOTO: Police officers stand amid the rubble of a damaged building at the site of a rocket attack in the Kafr Sousa neighbourhood of central Damascus, Syria, February 19, 2023. REUTERS/Firas Makdessi/File Photo
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Boy rescued after a week under earthquake rubble in Turkey
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