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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian army soldiers flash the victory sign as they stand on their tank in the village of Kfar Nabuda, in the countryside of the Hama province on Saturday, May 11, 2019. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government forces are now in control of nine villages forming an L shape at the far southern corner of the rebel stronghold. The villages include the strategic village of Kfar Nabuda and the elevated Qalaat Madiq, giving the government troops an advantage over the insurgents. (SANA via AP)

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In this Monday, April 16, 2018, file photo, people stand in front of damaged buildings, in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) ** FILE **

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FILE - In this May 6, 2011, citizen journalism file image made on a mobile phone, Syrian anti-government protesters carry a banner during a rally in the central city of Homs, Syria. The Syria Justice and Accountability Center, a Washington-based Syrian rights group said in a report, released Tuesday, May 21, 2019, that thousands of documents collected from abandoned Syrian government offices reveal the reach of President Bashar Assad's security agencies, offering a rare glimpse into the inner workings of his secretive apparatus. The documents include handwritten notes from top commanders to &quot;do what is necessary&quot; to quell anti-Assad protests. (AP Photo, File)

Documents shine rare light on Syrian government crackdown

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FILE - This file photo released on April 7, 2019, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows cars queuing to fill their tanks with fuel, at a gas station in Daraa, south Syria. As a fuel shortage crisis deepens in government-held areas of Syria, Cabinet ministers huddled in televised meetings to reassure the public they are searching for solutions. New rationing measures were rolled out, and government officials held talks with allies in Iran and Russia to explore options for the crisis aggravated by U.S. sanctions on Damascus and Tehran. (SANA via AP, File)

Syrian government has few options to battle fuel sanctions

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FILE - In this file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA on Dec. 16, 2018, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Sudan's President Omar Bashir in Damascus, Syria. Assad is the last man standing among a crop of Arab dictators after the fall of the Sudanese and Algerian leaders. He's survived an 8-year war to topple him and an Islamic caliphate over part of his broken country. But Bashar Assad's path is strewn with difficulties and the war for Syria is far from over. (SANA via AP, File)

Syria’s Assad: Last man standing amid new Arab uprisings

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FILE - This file photo provided Oct. 20, 2017 by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows Iran's Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, left, and other senior officers on the front line in the northern province of Aleppo, Syria. A Syrian war monitoring group said Thursday, March. 28, 2019 that an Israeli airstrike the night before killed several Iranian and Iranian-backed fighters in northern Syria. Iran is an ally of Damascus and has offered military advisers, sent allied militiamen and material support to help the Syrian government force in the eight-year civil war. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP, File)

Israeli airstrike kills Iranian, 6 Iraqi fighters in Syria

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Dividing the Syrian Corpse Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Dividing up the Syrian corpse

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Iran reveals FM wanted to resign over Assad visit to Tehran

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Syria’s Assad visits Iran in rare trip abroad

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FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2018 file photo, a Syrian refugee holds a poster of President Bashar Assad in a bus window at the border crossing point of Jdedeh Yabous, on his way to Syria. Assad said Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019, that only the Syrian army can protect groups in northern Syria. In a speech in the Syrian capital Damascus on Sunday, he appeared to be referring to U.S.-allied Kurdish groups, which fear a Turkish assault once American troops withdraw from northeastern Syria. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

Assad: Only the state can protect groups in northern Syria

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Former President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally for Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams at Morehouse College Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) ** FILE **

Report: Assad has used chemical weapons 300 times since Obama ‘red line’

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U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard endorses U.S. Rep. Coleen Hanabusa for Hawaii governor during a news conference on Wednesday, January 24, 2018 in Honolulu. Gabbard says that a "failure of leadership" in the administration of incumbent Gov. David Ige affirms her belief that Hawaii desperately needs a strong governor. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard: Assad a ‘brutal dictator’ but not an enemy of U.S.

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, speaks with Iran's first Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri, left, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. Syria's president said Tuesday that new trade agreements with Iran will help the two countries face the &quot;economic war&quot; waged against them by the West. Syria's government is under heavy Western sanctions linked to its actions over the course of the civil war. Iran, a close ally of Assad, is under renewed U.S. sanctions following President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal. (SANA via AP)

Syria, Iran reach new economic agreements

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Tunisian Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui, right, shakes hands with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov during his visit, in Tunis, Tunisia, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)

Russia urges North Africa to bring Syria back to Arab League

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