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CORRECTS NAME OF SYRIAN DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER TO WALID AL-MOALLEM - Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Walid al-Moallem addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Syria FM: Victory over ‘terrorism’ is near, US must leave

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Suspected US drone strike kills 4 al-Qaida members in Yemen

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

In this April 4, 2018, file photo, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, left, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lock hands during a group photo in Ankara, Turkey. When the presidents of Russia, Turkey and Iran meet in Tehran Friday, Sept. 7, all eyes will be on their diplomacy averting a bloodbath in Idlib, Syria's crowded northwestern province and last opposition stronghold. The three leaders whose nations are all under U.S. sanctions have an interest in working together, but Idlib is complicated and they have little common ground. (Tolga Bozoglu/Pool Photo via AP, File)

The Latest: Syria says it’s committed to ‘liberate’ Idlib

Associated Press

FILE- In this April 4, 2018, file photo, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, left, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan join hands after a joint press conference in Ankara, Turkey. When the presidents of Russia, Turkey and Iran meet in Tehran on Friday, Sept. 7, all eyes will be on their diplomacy averting a bloodbath in Idlib, Syria's crowded northwestern province and last opposition stronghold. The three leaders whose nations are all under U.S. sanctions have an interest in working together, but Idlib is complicated and they have little common ground. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

Iran summit seeks to avert a bloodbath in northwestern Syria

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Officials: Al-Qaida attack on Yemen checkpoint kills 5

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Al-Qaida bomb master killed in US strike, officials say

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Al-Qaida in Yemen denies AP report on secret deals with UAE

Associated Press

US official says UAE paid Yemen tribes to push al-Qaida out

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

Emirati Brig. Gen. Musallam al-Rashedi speaks to journalists during a news conference regarding Yemen in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. The United Arab Emirates on Monday described itself as actively fighting al-Qaida's branch in Yemen after an Associated Press report outlined how Emirati forces cut secret deals with the militants to get them to abandon territory. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

UAE responds to AP report on deals with al-Qaida in Yemen

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

In this file image from television transmitted by the Arab news channel Al-Jazeera on Monday, Jan. 30, 2006, Al Qaeda's then deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri gestures while addressing the camera. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera, File)

U.N. report: Up to 30,000 Islamic State members in Iraq, Syria

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

US ups reward for info on al-Qaida leaders in Africa attacks

Associated Press

Yemeni army soldiers fire rockets at mountainous positions of al-Qaida militants at the town of Meyfaa in the southern province of Shabwa, Yemen in May 2014 file photo provided by Yemen's Defense Ministry. Al-Qaida took over multiple towns in Shabwa in 2015 and held them until they withdrew in late 2017 and early 2018. The AP found that they pulled out under secret deals with the U.S.-backed coalition that allowed them to take weapons and cash with them, integrated some of its fighters into coalition-backed forces and even paid off some militants. (AP Photo/Yemen's Defense Ministry, File)

Pentagon denies reports of U.S. allies bribing, recruiting al Qaeda fighters in Yemen

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

80-year old Margaret Achieng places a rosary on her daughters name Doreen Aluoch at plague with the names of victims of the August 7, 1998 US embassy bombing at the Kenya's capital Nairobi during the 20th commemoration at the memorial park, Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)

Kenya, Tanzania mark 20 years since US embassy bombings

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

‘Unite with the devil’: Yemen war binds US, allies, al-Qaida

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and TRISH WILSON and LEE KEATH - Associated Press

A look at al-Qaida’s most lethal branch, Yemen’s AQAP

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Yemen: U.S. allies spin deals with al Qaeda in war on rebels

By Maggie Michael, Trish Wilson and Lee Keath - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2014, file photo, Yemeni mourners carry the coffin of a soldier who was killed in a suicide bombing near the Yemeni port city of Mukalla. Al-Qaida militants took control of the city in 2015 and ruled it for a year until its fighters withdrew under a secret deal with the U.S.-backed coalition. It was one of a series of such deals that led to the militants abandoning several strongholds, while keeping their weapons and cash and in at least one case, receiving payments. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Details of deals between US-backed coalition, Yemen al-Qaida

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

Men ride through streets wrecked by fighting in Taiz, Yemen in this Feb. 4, 2018, photo. The city gives the clearest example of the intertwining of al-Qaida with militias funded by the U.S.-backed coalition to fight the Houthi rebels. Al-Qaida militants are among the fiercest fighters in the city, driving the rebels out of some areas, and militia commanders have close ties to and recruit from the group. (AP Photo)

Yemen: US allies strike deals with al-Qaida in war on rebels

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and TRISH WILSON and LEE KEATH - Associated Press

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, charged with a host of crimes including murder, conspiracy and terrorism in connection with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, is in legal limbo as his defense team stalls for time. (Associated Press/File)

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s 9/11 trial date delayed indefinitely

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Monday July 16, 2018, file photo a supporter of Soumaila Cisse, Opposition Presidential candidate, Union for the Republic and Democracy party hold a poster that reads '' Together lets restore hope'' during an election campaign rally in Yanfolila, Mali. Mali's voters have been warned: Months before the presidential election scheduled to take place Sunday, July 29, 2018, the local branch of al-Qaida issued a statement telling people in this increasingly volatile West African nation to stay away from the polls. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed,File)

Mali votes in presidential election amid insecurity

By BABA AHMED - Associated Press