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Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, gestures while speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. With its war on Ukraine now in its third week, Putin on Friday, March 11, 2022, approved bringing in volunteer fighters from the Middle East into the conflict. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

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EXPLAINER: Will Russia bring Syrian fighters to Ukraine?
By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press
Fri,03/11/22-11:39AM , 148 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — With Russia's war on Ukraine now in its third week, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday approved bringing in volunteer fighters from the Middle East, particularly Syria.
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A boy plays with a broken sword, at al-Hol camp, which houses families of members of the Islamic State group, in Hasakeh province, Syria, May 1, 2021. Hundreds of minors are believed to be holed up in Gweiran Prison, which has been at the center of an ongoing violent standoff between Islamic State group militants and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters after IS fighters stormed the prison on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. A distressing series of voice notes sent by an Australian teenager from the prison in northeast Syria underscores the plight of thousands of forgotten children that remain trapped in detention facilities in Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

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EXPLAINER: Who are the kids trapped in Syria prison attack?
By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press
Wed,01/26/22-8:54AM , 127 Reads
BEIRUT (AP) — A distressing series of voice notes sent by an injured Australian teenager from a prison in northeast Syria underscores the plight of thousands of forgotten children who remain trapped in overcrowded detention facilities in Syria and Iraq.
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