Civil wars
Syrian refugee Ibrahim al-Hussein, an amputee swimmer who lost his leg during the war in Syria, prepares to dive during a training at the Olympic Aquatic Centre, in Athens, on Wednesday , June 30, 2021. Ibrahim al-Hussein will be part of a Refugee Paralympic Team for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games as the International Paralympic Committee announce Wednesday. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Syrian refugee swimmer makes his mark at the Paralympics

By Theodora Tongas And James Ellingworth Jul. 14, 2021 07:12 AM EDT

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, accompanied by Italy's Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, right, speaks during a news conference at Fiera Roma in Rome, Monday, June 28, 2021. Blinken is on a week long trip in Europe traveling to Germany, France and Italy. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)
US warns that Islamic State extremists still a world threat

By Matthew Lee Jun. 28, 2021 06:49 AM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2016, file photo, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, poses for photographers with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, prior to their meeting at Yildiz Mabeyn Palace in Istanbul. Biden and Turkish counterpart Erdogan have known each other for years, but their meeting Monday, June 14, 2021, will be their first as heads of state. And it comes at a particularly tense moment for relations between their two countries. (Kayhan Ozer/Presidential Press Service, Pool via AP, File)
Erdogan and Biden meet at a tense moment for Turkish-US ties

By Suzan Fraser Jun. 13, 2021 10:56 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 19, 2020 file photo, shows a large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province, Syria. Millions of Syrians risk losing access to lifesaving aid, including food and COVID-19 vaccines if Russia gets its way at the Security Council by blocking the use of the last remaining cross-border aid corridor into northwestern Syria, an international rights group said Thursday, June 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)
Watchdog warns of aid disaster in Syria; shelling kills 11

By Sarah El Deeb Jun. 10, 2021 12:43 PM EDT

Anti-coup protesters burn tires and chant slogans with banner read ''The Kamayut strike will be fight for to the end when we get victory" during the demonstration against the military coup in Kamayut township Yangon, Monday, May 3, 2021. (AP Photo)
China's UN envoy: Myanmar violence could lead to civil war

By Edith M. Lederer May. 03, 2021 09:48 PM EDT

Faeza Satouf looks at a photo of her graduation day on her phone during an interview in Nivaa, Denmark, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. The 25-year-old Syrian refugee had fled the civil war with her family in an all-too-familiar journey across the sea to Europe, where they finally arrived in Denmark and were granted asylum in 2015. Yet six later years, she has been told she has to go back — alone, and soon. (AP Photo/David Keyton)
Denmark tells some Syrians to leave, separating families

By David Keyton Apr. 23, 2021 02:19 AM EDT

Syrian refugee Raed Mattar, 24, works on his tent, at an informal refugee camp, in the town of Rihaniyye in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Thursday, April 8, 2021. For many Syrian refugee families in Lebanon, Ramadan comes as a hard life of displacement has gotten even harder after a pandemic year that deepened economic woes in their host country. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Delights of Ramadan disappear for Syrian refugees in Lebanon

By Sarah El Deeb And Mariam Fam Apr. 18, 2021 02:09 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Apr. 14, 2021 08:51 PM EDT
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European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks during an online joint news conference with UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock at the conclusion of a conference 'Supporting the future of Syria and the region' at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool)
Donors pledge more than $6 billion to tackle Syria's crisis

By Samuel Petrequin Mar. 30, 2021 04:43 AM EDT

In this photo released on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, Syrian President Bashar Assad heads a cabinet meeting, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Assad and his wife have recovered from COVID-19 and returned to their regular duties on Tuesday, three weeks after they had tested positive for the coronavirus, the president's office said. (Syrian Presidency Facebook page via AP)
Syria says Assad, his wife have recovered from coronavirus

By Bassem Mroue Mar. 30, 2021 03:37 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2019 file photo, a woman carries her baby at a screening center run by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, outside Baghouz, Syria. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians face continued displacement each coming year if the conflict continues and economic conditions further deteriorate, the Norwegian Refugee Council, a prominent humanitarian organization said Monday, March 8, 2021. The Syrian conflict, which marks 10 years later this month, has resulted in the largest displacement crisis since World War II, the council said. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
US-backed Syrian forces raid camp of IS families, arrest 9

By Sarah El Deeb And Lolita C. Baldor Mar. 28, 2021 04:20 PM EDT

FILE - In this July, 13, 2010 file photo, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and his wife Asma Assad, listen to explanations as they visit a technology plant in Tunis, Tunisia. Assad’s office said Wednesday, March 17, 2021, the country's first couple are on their way to recovery nine days after they tested positive for coronavirus. The presidency said that Assad and his wife have had mild symptoms of the illness and are continuing their work as usual from home and will return to normal life once they test negative to COVID-19 (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, File)
Syria president's office: Assad, wife recovering from virus

Mar. 17, 2021 07:43 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 16, 2018 file photo, Syrian authorities distribute bread, vegetables and pasta to residents in the town of Douma, near Damascus, Syria. As Syria marks the 10th anniversary Monday, March 15, 2021, of the start of its uprising-turned-civil war, President Bashar Assad may still be in power, propped up by Russia and Iran. But millions of people are being pushed deeper into poverty, and a majority of households can hardly scrape together enough to secure their next meal. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
'Republic of Queues': 10 years on, Syria is a hungry nation

By Zeina Karam Mar. 15, 2021 06:55 AM EDT

FILE - In this Saturday, June 27, 2020 file photo, trainees parade with the wooden mock guns which they use to train with, during the visit of the defense minister to a military training center in Owiny Ki-Bul, Eastern Equatoria, South Sudan. The scale of violence in South Sudan is "a lot worse" than during the country's five-year civil war, a United Nations commission announced Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, accusing senior officials of supporting armed groups that at times have included tens of thousands of fighters. (AP Photo/Maura Ajak, File)
UN mandates South Sudan force to prevent return to civil war

By Edith M. Lederer Mar. 12, 2021 11:42 PM EST

A displaced Syrian boy holds a chicken, as he sits outside his family's tent, at a refugee camp in Bar Elias, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Friday, March 5, 2021. UNICEF said Wednesday, March 10, 2021 that Syria’s 10-year-long civil war has killed or wounded about 12,000 children and left millions out of school in what could have repercussions for years to come in the country. The country's bitter conflict has killed nearly half a million people, wounded more than a million and displaced half the country’s population, including more than 5 million as refugees. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
UNICEF: Syria's war has killed and wounded 12,000 children

By Bassem Mroue Mar. 10, 2021 10:57 AM EST

FILE - This April 13, 2016 file photo released on the official Facebook page of Syrian Presidency, shows Syrian President Bashar Assad casting his ballot in the parliamentary elections, as his wife Asma, left, stands next to him, in Damascus, Syria. The office of Syrian President Bashar Assad said Monday, March 8, 2021 that Assad and his wife have tested positive for the coronavirus and are both doing well. In a statement, Assad’s office said the first couple did PCR tests after they felt minor symptoms consistent with the COVID-19 illness. (Syrian Presidency via AP, File)
Syrian president, wife test positive for coronavirus

Mar. 08, 2021 07:21 AM EST

FILE - In this July 15, 2018 file photo, a calendar is drawn by a prisoner on a wall of an underground cell in the abandoned Tawbeh Prison, where over the years the Army of Islam detained hundreds of people, in Douma, near Damascus, Syria. The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria said in a report released Monday, March, 1, 2021, that tens of thousands of civilians were arbitrarily detained in enforced disappearances during the country's 10-year conflict. The commission’s report said the Syrian government and other parties in the conflict committed crimes in the context of detention. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
UN: Arbitrary detentions in Syria conflict may be war crimes

By Jamey Keaten And Bassem Mroue Mar. 01, 2021 11:01 AM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, rioters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. People charged in the attack on the U.S. Capitol left behind a trove of videos and messages that have helped federal authorities build cases. In nearly half of the more than 200 federal cases stemming from the attack, authorities have cited evidence that an insurrectionist appeared to have been inspired by conspiracy theories or extremist ideologies, according to an Associated Press review of court records. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
Dozens charged in Capitol riots spewed extremist rhetoric

By Michael Kunzelman And Amanda Seitz Feb. 16, 2021 12:24 AM EST

Syrian refugee Mahmoud Mansour, 47, helps his youngest daughter Sahar, 8, with her homework at his rented apartment in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. President Joe Biden has vowed to restore America's place as a world leader in offering sanctuary to the oppressed by raising the cap on the number of refugees allowed in each year. Mansour's family had completed the work to go to the United States when the Trump administration issued its travel ban barring people from Syria indefinitely and suspending the refugee program for 120 days. (AP Photo/Omar Akour)
Broken by Trump, US refugee program aims to return stronger

By Julie Watson Jan. 27, 2021 12:34 PM EST

This undated photo provided by his son Kenan Aljasem shows Dr. Adnan Jasem in Albad, Syria. Jasem had every reason to leave war-torn Syria after surviving a bomb blast that broke his legs four years earlier and receiving job offers from abroad. Still, Jasem stayed, committed to treating the people in his homeland. It was no surprise that he would be on the front lines when the first coronavirus cases appeared in northwest Syria this summer. By Sept. 6, 2020, Jasem started feeling ill. Four days later, the 58-year-old was dead. (Kenan Aljasem via AP)
Lives Lost: Doctor chose to stay, work in war-torn Syria

By Julie Watson Dec. 17, 2020 12:04 AM EST