By Steven A. Cook
Syrian Civil War
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![<p>Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrives for a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the sidelines of the eightieth UN General Assembly in New York on September 24.</p>]()
![<p>Men play cards at a coffee shop as Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa addresses the nation in a televised speech, in Damascus, Syria on May 14.</p>]()
By Christina Bouri![<p>A man points at bullet holes in a window of a hospital following a spate of violence between Syrian security forces and insurgents loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s coastal region, on March 10, 2025. </p>]()
By Steven A. Cook- By Steven A. Cook
![<p>People hold the Syrian opposition flag in Aleppo as they celebrate the end of President Bashar al-Assad’s 24-year authoritarian rule, on December 8, 2024.</p>]()
By Steven A. Cook![<p>Rebel fighters walk at the Great Mosque in the city of Maraat al-Numan in Idlib province on December 1, 2024.</p>]()
By Steven A. Cook- By Henri J. Barkey
![<p>Turkey-backed Syrian rebel fighters walk in a field of flowers in Idlib, Syria, on April 15, 2020.</p>]()
By Steven A. Cook![<p>People walk by a damaged building on which illustrations of the novel coronavirus have been spray painted in Idlib, Syria, on April 18, 2020.</p>]()
By Amir Asmar- By Kali Robinson
- By Steven A. Cook
![<p>U.S. President Donald Trump greets Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan during a joint news conference at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 13, 2019.</p>]()
By Steven A. Cook![<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Black sea resort of Sochi, Russia, 22 October 2019</p>]()
By Steven A. Cook![<p>A Kurdish Peshmerga soldier holds a Kurdistan flag during a deployment in the area near the northern Iraqi border with Syria</p>]()
By Steven A. Cook- By Lindsay Maizland
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