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In this Feb. 10, 2017, file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with Yahoo News in Damascus, Syria. (SANA via AP, File)

After US strikes, Trump’s Syria plan starts coming into view

By JOSH LEDERMAN and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson listens, right, to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, back to a camera, during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. Tillerson's Moscow talks hinge on new US leverage over Syria. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Vladimir Putin meets Rex Tillerson as tensions rise over Syria

By Josh Lederman - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meets with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. Russia's top diplomat accuses the U.S. of carrying out an unlawful attack against Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces as he opened a fraught meeting with Tillerson. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian envoy delivers diatribe on U.S. action in Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaks to moderator Greta Van Susteren at the Newseum in Washington, Wednesday, April 12, 2017, during &quot;The President and the Press: The First Amendment in the First 100 Days&quot; forum. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Spicer says Hitler comment ‘inexcusable and reprehensible’

By KEN THOMAS and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with business leaders in the State Department Library on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. Carlos G. Muniz, a former top aide to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi involved in her office’s decision not to pursue legal action against Trump University has been chosen to serve as the top lawyer at the Education Department. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump clarifies — and confuses: ‘We’re not going into Syria’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE -- In this Tuesday, April 4, 2017 file photo, victims of the suspected chemical weapons attack lie on the ground, in Khan Sheikhoun, in the northern province of Idlib, Syria. Turkey's health minister, Recep Akdag said Tuesday, April 11, 2017, that test results conducted on victims of the chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun confirm that sarin gas was used. Officials from the World Health Organization and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons participated in the autopsies. (Alaa Alyousef via AP, File)

The Latest: Revised UN resolution on Syria attack circulated

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White House press secretary Sean Spicer pauses while talking to the media during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. Spicer discussed Syria, Trump's 2016 tax returns, the Easter Egg Roll and other topics. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Spicer apologizes for ‘insensitive’ reference to Holocaust

By KEN THOMAS and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sits at the table during a meeting of foreign ministers of the G7 in Lucca, Italy, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations are expected to call for a new international push to end the war in Syria as they end a meeting in Italy Tuesday. (Riccardo Dalle Luche/ANSA via AP)

Rex Tillerson: Russia must choose between Assad and the U.S.

By Josh Lederman - Associated Press

Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson delivered an ultimatum to leaders in Moscow Tuesday, in which he said that the Russians must either get onboard against Syrian leader Bashar Assad or else embrace Mr. Assad and militant groups like Iran’s Hezbollah. (Associated Press)

The Latest: Mattis says Islamic State still focus in Syria

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Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson delivered an ultimatum to leaders in Moscow Tuesday, in which he said that the Russians must either get onboard against Syrian leader Bashar Assad or else embrace Mr. Assad and militant groups like Iran’s Hezbollah. (Associated Press)

White House offers more proof of Syrian gas attack, cites Russian ‘misinformation’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, joined by Gen. Joseph Votel, speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. Mattis said the campaign against the Islamic State group is still the main focus of the U.S. in Syria and remains on track. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

James Mattis: U.S. naval strike on Syrian forces not harbinger of shifting policy

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 20, 2017, file photo, Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster listens as President Donald Trump makes the announcement at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., that McMaster will be the new national security adviser. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Trump security adviser urges Russia to rethink Syria support

By HOPE YEN - Associated Press

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, April 7, 2017. The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles in fiery retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/U.S. Navy via AP)

White House says missile strikes in Syria were part of ‘America First’ strategy

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE --In this Aug. 17, 2016 file frame grab taken from video provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh sits in an ambulance after being pulled out of a building hit by an airstrike in Aleppo, Syria. With its missile strike on Shayrat Airbase in central Syria, Washington signaled that it had judged President Bashar Assad responsible for the horrific chemical weapons attack in north Syria that drew international outrage last week. But it is not the first or even deadliest atrocity of the war. (Aleppo Media Center via AP, File)

Chemical weapons attack latest in litany of Syria atrocities

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson steps off his plane at Pisa Military Airport in Pisa, Italy, on Sunday, April 9, 2017. Tillerson is in Italy to attend a meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of 7 industrialized economies. (AP Photo/Josh Lederman)

G-7 ministers aim to press Russia to end Assad support

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Defense Secretary Rex W. Tillerson (left) has acknowledged that he and President Trump have different views on the nuclear accord and how the administration should use it going forward. (Associated Press/File)

Syria attack blurs focus on ISIS

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

As a National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said the Trump administration has two goals in Syria: defeating the Islamic State group and removing President Bashar Assad from power. (Associated Press/File)

H.R. McMaster: Bashar Assad’s removal now part of Donald Trump’s Syria policy

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2017 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with Yahoo News in Damascus, Syria. Syria decried a U.S. missile strike early Friday, April 7, 2017 on a government-controlled air base where U.S. officials say the Syrian military launched a deadly chemical attack earlier this week. Syria called the operation &quot;an aggression&quot; that killed at least six people. (SANA via AP, File)

Trump advisers: US seeks to fight IS and oust Syria’s Assad

By HOPE YEN - Associated Press

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., center, speaks to reporters following a briefing on Syria on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

The Latest: McMaster says US goals in Syria simultaneous

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