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Assad offers amnesty to deserters and draft dodgers

The Syrian regime has announced an amnesty for men who deserted the army or have avoided military service, giving them several months to report for duty without facing punishment, it said Tuesday. The fear of conscription, and potential punishment for ducking it or for desertion, is...

Syrians in ex-rebel zones struggle for aid

Tens of thousands of Syrians in areas recaptured by government troops this year remain starved of humanitarian aid, with the relief agencies helping them for years now unable to reach them. As towns switched from opposition to regime control, international aid groups were forced to halt their...

Opposition heavy weapons removed from Idlib

The Syrian opposition and other anti-regime groups on Monday completed the withdrawal of all their heavy weapons from Idlib frontlines in northwestern Syria.  According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent in the scene, the forces removed heavy weapons from Idlib de-escalation...