A US military convoy has been forced to retreat from an area in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah after government soldiers blocked its way, amid rising popular anger at the deployment of foreign occupying forces in the oil-rich region...

: This file picture shows the Allouk water station near the border town of Ra’s al-Ayn in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah...

A Syrian army soldier stands overlooking a motorway in the town of Saraqib in the northwestern province of Idlib on March 6, 2020, as government forces assumed control over it...

This picture taken on March 9, 2020 in the city of Qamishli in Syria’s northeastern Hasakah province, shows Russian military vehicles driving in a convoy from the town of Tal Tamr to Qamishli airport...

In this file photo, taken on March 24, 2019, smoke is seen rising behind destroyed vehicles and damaged buildings in the village of Baghouz, in Syria’s eastern Dayr al-Zawr Province, near the Iraqi border...

In this file photo taken on March 24, 2019 smoke is rising behind destroyed vehicles and damaged buildings in the village of Baghouz in Syria’s eastern Dayr al-Zawr province near the Iraqi border...

Suspected members of the Daesh Takfiri militant group wait to be searched by members of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces, after leaving the terrorist outfit’s last holdout, in Baghouz, in Syria’s Dayr al-Zawr province on February 22, 2019...