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Two US helicopters attacked a Syrian army checkpoint, killing one soldier and wounding two others, state media reported. The incident in northeastern Syria, near the largely Kurdish city of Qamishli, happened shortly after a U.S. patrol on Monday was overtaken by a lower checkpoint in the area, the agency SANA …

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has stopped a speech in parliament, telling lawmakers he “had to sit for a minute” after suffering a blood clot. The 54-year-old was half an hour into his speech Wednesday when he began to appear tired, pausing twice to take a sip of water from a …