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Turkey using Syria to attack Kurds

FILE - In this, Sunday, March 15, 2020 file photo, a medical staff member works on setting up an isolation room at a coronavirus quarantine ward at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. In conflict zones across the Middle East, the specter of the coronavirus looms large. Authorities in Yemen, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and the Gaza Strip warn that health care systems gutted by years of war and unrest have left millions of people doubly vulnerable to the pandemic. For most people, the virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Ravaged by war, Middle Eastern countries face a new scourge

Illustration on corona outbreaks in Lebanon by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Iran’s Hezbollah virus infects Lebanon while attacking the world

This Tuesday, March. 10, 2020 photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows the road that links Syria's coastal region with the northern city of Aleppo, in Latakia province, Syria. The reopening of the M4 highway that has been closed since 2012 is part of a deal reached earlier this month between Turkey and Russia that stopped a Russian-backed government offensive on the northwestern province of Idlib, the last rebel stronghold in the country. (SANA via AP)

Turkey-Russia patrols start amid protests on Syrian highway

FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2020 file photo, An honour guard carries the coffin of Muhammed Ali Ozer, one of the 36 Turkish soldiers killed on Thursday in a Syrian army attack in the Idlib area of Syria, in Hatay, Turkey. In a world gripped by a pandemic, global unrest and a fast-moving news cycle, it can be difficult to remember that the war in Syria is still happening. (AP Photo/ File)

Syrian war, rumbling into 10th year, still has global impact

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the members of his ruling party in Parliament, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Erdogan vowed on Wednesday to respond with greater military force to action by Syria's government that would break a fragile cease-fire in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, that was brokered last week. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkish, Russian troops to start Syria patrols on Sunday

Iran Revolutionary Guard commander reportedly killed in Syria

Report: Iran Revolutionary Guard commander killed in Syria

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands during a news conference after their talks in the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 5, 2020. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, say they have reached agreements that could end fighting in northwestern Syria. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool)

A tense Russia-Turkey truce in Syria halts bombing campaign

Israeli warplanes strike targets in central Syria

Migrants climb a fence installed by Turkish authorities near the Turkish-Greek border in Pazarkule on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. Greek authorities fired tear gas and stun grenades Wednesday morning to repulse a push by migrants to cross its land border from Turkey, as pressure continued along its frontier after Turkey said its own border with Europe was open to whoever wanted to cross. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Five years on, ill-prepared EU sees migrants on its borders

In this photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian White Helmet civil defense workers carry a victim next to a destroyed house that was hit by Russian airstrikes, in Maaret Musreen village, in Idlib province, Syria, Thursday, March 5, 2020. An airstrike on a rebel-held village in northwestern Syria early Thursday. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Airstrike in northwest Syria kills 15 ahead of Moscow summit

In this Jan. 8, 2020, file photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, talk during a ceremony in Istanbul for the inauguration of the TurkStream pipeline. A summit meeting between the Turkish and Russian leaders scheduled for Thursday, March 5, 2020, may be the last chance to work out a deal that avoids a calamity in Syria's northwest. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Russian, Turkish presidents meet as Syria violence continues

In this Jan. 8, 2020, file photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, talk during a ceremony in Istanbul for the inauguration of the TurkStream pipeline. A summit meeting between the Turkish and Russian leaders scheduled for Thursday, March 5, 2020, may be the last chance to work out a deal that avoids a calamity in Syria's northwest. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Russia-Turkey talks a last chance to avert Idlib calamity

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A man wails after a government airstrike in the city of Idlib, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. The latest violence in Idlib came as government forces came closer to capturing the last rebel-held part of a strategic highway linking southern and northern Syria, which would bring the road under Syrian President Bashar Assad's full control for the first time since 2012. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

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