In Syria, women begin to pick up the pieces of a broken nation.

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The Israeli military said several people were lightly injured after its air defenses failed to intercept the projectile, which struck a playground in the city.

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A Libyan officer said the stepped-up flights from Russia and Syria delivered military gear.

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The Russian president, in a marathon annual news conference, said that he had not yet met with Bashar al-Assad, the ousted Syrian leader who fled to Moscow, but that he planned to.

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The ancient city, an early stronghold of opposition to Bashar al-Assad’s oppressive regime, was ravaged by a government crackdown. New York Times correspondents in Homs spoke to people who were reacting to his fall with smiles and tears.

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This time, when Bashar al-Assad started to fall, Russia was not there to catch him.

U.S. sanctions policy in the country must change.

The rebel group H.T.S. was born as an Islamic State branch. But since pivoting from international jihad, it became dominant in Syria’s northwest.

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