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    <text>The United Nations Security Council votes to lift sanctions on Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa and interior minister Anas Khattab through a United States-drafted resolution. </text>
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    <text>The Syrian government announces an immediate ceasefire with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces following clashes last night that killed at least four people and injured at least eight others. </text>
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    <text>Two soldiers are killed in a shooting against the Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia, Syria. Both the perpetrators, who are also killed, were foreign nationals who had worked as military trainers at a naval college. </text>
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      <text>At least seven people are killed and 30 others are injured in a car blast in Azaz, Syria, near the Turkish border. </text>
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      <text>At least 7 people were killed and 30 injured in a car blast in Azaz, Syria near the Turkish border. </text>
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    <text>At least seven people are killed and 30 others are injured by a car bombing in Azaz, Aleppo Governorate, Syria, near the Turkish border. </text>
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      <text>A car bombing attack left 5 people dead and another 12 were injured in Tel Halef village, Syria. </text>
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    <text>A car bombing attack leaves 5 people dead and another 12 injured in Tel Halef village, Syria. </text>
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    <text>Fighting resumes in rebel-held northwestern Syria, as government forces capture four villages by making their first large-scale push against rebel groups since the ceasefire that ended the 2019 northwestern Syria offensive earlier this year. </text>
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    <text>The United Nations Security Council meets amid concerns of military strikes in Syria by the United States and its allies following a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria last weekend, with the United States ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, accusing Russia of lies and covering for the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which she said had used chemical weapons at least 50 times in the past seven years of warfare, and the Russian ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, blaming the United States, France and the UK for escalating tensions. </text>
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    <text>Russian and Syrian warplanes carry out airstrikes in southern Idlib, killing three civilians and wounding others. </text>
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    <text>According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the total number of people killed and missing in Syria's war is now 465,000. </text>
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    <text>The government of Jordan says that more than 12,000 Syrians have fled to Jordan in the past six days. </text>
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  <text>Syrian authorities say that they have arrested Amjad Youssef, an intelligence officer of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces, for his role in the Tadamon massacre during the civil war. This comes after Interior Minister Anas Khattab announced that he had been captured by the Syrian transitional government. </text>
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