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U.S. Conducts Rare Raid in Syria, Killing a Senior Islamic State Leader

Par :Eric Schmitt
The military gave few details on the ground operation, but counterterrorism raids have typically involved helicopter-borne Special Operations commandos.

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Near the Citadel of Aleppo in May.
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A Series of Mysterious Explosions Unnerves Syrians

Par :Raja Abdulrahim and Muhammad Haj Kadour
Many of the blasts, some of them deadly, have been at weapons storage sites, raising questions about whether ordnance from Syria’s civil war has been properly secured.

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Smoke rose after an explosion on a military base in the Syrian town of Maraat Misrin, in the northwestern province of Idlib, on Thursday.
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Saudi Arabia Pledges to Invest More Than $6 Billion in Syria

Par :Christina Goldbaum and Ismaeel Naar
The deals highlight the countries’ deepening relationship under the new Syrian government, and a wave of investment in a country squeezed by war and sanctions.

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Damascus, Syria, last month. New investment deals involving more than 100 companies would be an economic boon for the country’s government.
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Syrian Inquiry Says Military Leaders Did Not Order Sectarian Killings in March

Par :Euan Ward
A fact-finding committee presented findings on a wave of sectarian killings earlier this year. Human rights experts said the report failed to hold the country’s security establishment accountable.

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Members of Syria’s government security forces in Baniyas, Syria, in March. The city was the site of some of the worst sectarian violence in Syria that month.
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Syrian Government Evacuates Bedouin Families After Deadly Clashes

Par :Raja Abdulrahim and Muhammad Haj Kadour
The violence in Sweida Province between groups from Bedouin tribes and the Druse minority renewed fears of sectarian conflict and drew Israeli attacks before a cease-fire was announced Saturday.

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Bedouin tribe members, evacuating in the back of a truck, stopped at a security checkpoint in Taarah, in Syria’s southern Sweida Province, on Monday.
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They Vanished in Syria’s Long Occupation of Lebanon. Now Their Families Want Answers.

Par :Euan Ward
Thousands went missing during Syria’s decades-long intervention in Lebanon. Months after the fall of the Syrian regime, families are still clinging to hope.

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Family members looking for any signs of missing relatives in the Sednaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, in December.
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Who Are the Druse? The Religious Minority at the Center of Israel and Syria’s Tensions

Par :Euan Ward
Spread across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, the secretive religious minority has long balanced integration and independence. Now, members are at the heart of the region’s shifting power struggles.

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Clerics praying during a funeral for people killed during clashes between Druse fighters and Bedouin tribes in Sweida, Syria, on Monday.
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Army Special Operations Warns Retired Members of Terror Threat

Par :Eric Schmitt and Julian E. Barnes
The alert, issued to retired service members who served in Iraq or Syria and live in Florida, did not specify what kind of threat or which terrorist group was involved.

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The military’s overall Special Operations Command has its headquarters in Tampa, Fla.
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Blood in the Streets and Death in the Air: Residents Survey Damage in Syrian City

Par :Christina Goldbaum and Reham Mourshed
In the southern city of Sweida, residents describe the aftermath of a wave of sectarian violence.

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Buildings that were burned and looted near Sweida, Syria, on Tuesday.
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Why Israel Attacked Syria

Par :Patrick Kingsley
For weeks, Israel has engaged in back-channel talks over a diplomatic agreement with the Syrian government. Its strikes on Damascus this week highlight a lack of strategic clarity.

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An Israeli airstrike damaged the entrance to Syria’s defense ministry headquarters on Wednesday.
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Israel, Mixing Force With Diplomacy, Takes ‘Discordant’ Approach to Syria

Par :Patrick Kingsley
For weeks, Israel has engaged in back-channel talks over a diplomatic agreement with the Syrian government. Its strikes on Damascus this week highlight a lack of strategic clarity.

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An Israeli airstrike damaged the entrance to Syria’s defense ministry headquarters on Wednesday.
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Syria’s President Condemns Israeli Strikes on Damascus

Par :Christina Goldbaum and Euan Ward
President Ahmed al-Shara said the airstrike on Damascus threatened to escalate sectarian violence, in his sharpest criticism of Israel since he came to power.

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Debris in Damascus, the Syrian capital, on Wednesday, after an Israeli strike.
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Israel Strikes Syria’s Capital, Sending Warning to Government

Par :Euan Ward and Aaron Boxerman
Israel threatened to escalate attacks on Syrian government forces unless they withdrew from Sweida, a southern province dominated by the country’s Druse minority.

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Smoke rising from the Syrian Defense Ministry in the capital, Damascus, on Wednesday.
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What to Know About Israel’s Attack in Syria and the Druse Minority

Par :Christina Goldbaum
Israel has been bombing Syrian government forces who intervened in clashes in a region controlled by the Syrian Druse minority, which Israel pledged to protect.

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Members of the Syrian government’s security forces in a truck in the southern Syrian province of Sweida on Tuesday. More than 200 people have been killed in the region since violence erupted on Sunday, according to a war monitoring group.
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Israel Stages Rare Attack on Syrian Government Forces

Par :Euan Ward
Israel intervened in sectarian violence in Syria and attacked the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.

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Syrian government forces entered the predominantly Druse city of Sweida on Tuesday. Israel intervened after days of deadly sectarian clashes in the southern Sweida region.
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Clashes Between Bedouin and Druse in Syria Kill More Than 50, Health Official and Rights Group Say

Par :Raja Abdulrahim and Reham Mourshed
The violence underscores the government’s challenge to assert nationwide control as ethnic and religious tensions simmer after the end of the civil war.

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A member of the Syrian security forces walks past a burning car near Al Mazra in Sweida Province on Monday. The violence in the heartland of the Druse community threatens to further exacerbate tensions stemming from the civil war.
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Why Trump’s Abraham Accords Have Not Meant Mideast Peace

Par :Vivian Nereim
The 2020 agreements addressed diplomacy and commerce, not conflicts or the Palestinians. Predictions that the deals would produce regional peace were baseless, analysts say.

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President Trump leading Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and officials from Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates outside the White House to sign the Abraham Accords in 2020.
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