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Analysis: A full Turkish military withdrawal from Syria is unlikely for a number of reasons in the near future, analysts say, and an eventual withdrawal will likely prove immensely complicated.

The EU’s future role in Syria will be a litmus test of a genuine common foreign and security policy.

Bashar al-Assad has confounded many by holding on to power for many years in the face of rebellion.

A chronology of key events in the history of Syria from the end of Ottoman rule to the present day.

Several weeks ago a wave of protests and demonstrations broke out in Syria, especially in the Al-Suwayda and Daraa governorates in the south, which are officially under the rule of the regime but where the regime's security control is weak.

UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman, whose parents migrated to the UK, dubbed desperate refugees an "invasion". This is one refugee's story - a testimony to the unimaginable hardship suffered by those being demonised by some UK politicians.

In early 2011, the Arab Spring tore through Tunisia, then Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, and Jordan. Syria stood at the precipice as people rose up against the dictatorship of President Bashar al-Assad, who had ruled since 2000.

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Ankara was in talks with Moscow, which supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, about the operation.

On November 30, the Islamic State (IS) announced that its “caliph,” Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (Abu al-Hassan), was killed and another leader, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qureshi (Abu al-Hussein), was the new caliph (alarabiya.net, November 30). This was the second time in only one year that an IS caliph was killed, with both Abu al-Hassan and his own predecessor, Abu Ibrahim …

US Central Command announces the killing less than two weeks after ISIL said its leader was killed in battle.