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This undated handout image released on Friday, May 13, 2016, by Hezbollah Media Department, shows slain top military commander Mustafa Badreddine smiling during a meeting. Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group said its top military commander Mustafa Badreddine was killed in Syria. (Hezbollah Media Department via AP)

Mustafa Badreddine, top Lebanese Hezbollah military commander, killed in Syria

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

This image posted online Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015, by supporters of the Islamic State militant group on an anonymous photo sharing website, shows smoke rising in the aftermath of an airstrike that targeted areas in Raqqa, Syria. The photo bears the watermark of Islamic State media releases and is consistent with other AP reporting. The Arabic caption on the photo reads, &quot;Russian warplanes target homes of Muslims in Raqqa.” (militant photo via AP) ** FILE **

Once accommodating neighbors now turn back Syrian refugees

By Philip Issa - Associated Press

In this Dec. 9, 2015 file photo made from video footage provided by the Russian Defense Ministry, a Russian Su-34 bomber drops bombs on a target. A new report by a human rights watchdog group accuses Russia of using cluster munitions and unguided bombs on civilian areas in Syria in attacks that it says have killed hundreds of people. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Accusations grow against Russia over Syria civilian killings

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

People gather near the site of a twin suicide attack in Burj al-Barajneh, southern Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 that struck a Shiite suburb killed and wounded dozens, a Lebanese official said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Twin suicide blasts in Beirut’s Shiite suburb kill 37

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

A Syrian boy shouts slogans against the government as he stands in front of a flag of the armed Islamic opposition group, the Nusra Front, during a demonstration in the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, in this Sept. 21, 2012, file photo. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

Syria regions may go separate ways after ruinous war

By Zeina Karam and Dan Perry - Associated Press

A police officer patrols as Turkish police raid homes in the Haci Bayram neighborhood of the capital Ankara, Turkey, Monday, July 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

U.S., Turkey aim for Islamic State-free zone in northern Syria

By Bassem Mroue and Julie Pace - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units (YPG), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Kurdish fighters of the YPG, sit on their pickup in the town of Ein Eissa, north of Raqqa city, Syria, Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Kurdish fighters and their allies have captured an Islamic State group military base in northern Syria under the cover of U.S.-led airstrikes bringing them closer than ever to the extremists de facto capital of Raqqa, activists said Tuesday. (The Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units via AP)

Kurds keep up offensive against extremists in northern Syria

By HAMZA HENDAWI - Associated Press

In this picture taken, Wednesday, May 6, 2015, Syrian refugee Fatmeh Ahmed, 20, holds her 10-month-old son, Hassan, in their shack on a peach farm near the northern Jordanian community of Salhiyeh. Ahmed, and her husband live on $9-a-day jobs on the farm, after they lost $100 a month in food vouchers due to cuts by the cash-strapped World Food Program. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Syrian refugees struggle amid aid cuts, lack of labor rights

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

Illustration on the suave approach taken by Iranian nuclear negotiators by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

CLIFFORD MAY: The ‘suave’ manner Mohammad Javad Zarif

By Clifford D. May

Mexican-American actress Salma Hayek poses for photographers next to a poster for the film "The Prophet," an animated feature film she co-produced, on her arrival to a cinema where she gave a press conference, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, April 27, 2015. In her first visit to her ancestral homeland, Ms. Hayek, whose paternal grandfather was Lebanese and immigrated to Mexico, visited the picturesque mountain village of Bcharre in northern Lebanon on Sunday to pay homage to Khalil Gibran, the Lebanese-born poet who wrote "The Prophet," the book on which the film is based. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Salma Hayek hopes ‘The Prophet’ inspires new generations

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

In this Oct. 22, 2014, file photo, thick smoke from an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition rises in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Syria Kurds yet to be fully embraced by U.S. in anti-IS fight

By Ryan Lucas - Associated Press

In this picture taken on Feb., 22, 2008, Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of slain top Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh, speaks during a rally to commemorate his father and two other leaders Abbas Musawi and Ragheb Harb, in the Shiite suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. A Hezbollah official said Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, that an Israeli strike in the Syrian Golan Heights killed Jihad Mughniyeh and four other fighters from the Lebanese Shiite militant group. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Israeli strikes kill 6 Hezbollah fighters in Syria

By Diaa Hadid and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

This undated image posted online and made available on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 by Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, an anti-Islamic State group organization, shows children at an Islamic State group training camp in Raqqa, Syria. The image has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting. Across the vast region in Syria and Iraq that is part of the Islamic State group's self-declared caliphate, children are being inculcated with the extremist group's radical and violent interpretation of Shariah law. (AP Photo/Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently)

Islamic State: With incentives and brute force, terror group subdues tribes

By Ryan Lucas - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 photo, Dr. Luiz Toledo, one of the world's most famous plastic surgeons in liposuction and the &quot;Brazilian butt lift,&quot; works in his office at the Medical Arts Clinic in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He closed his practice in Brazil and moved to Dubai in 2006 because he saw less competition in the Gulf and an opportunity to keep quality and prices up. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Dubai cuts profile as Mideast plastic surgery hub

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 photo, Italian plastic surgeon Roberto Viel gives Italian Irina Tzoneva, a 41-year-old restaurant manager, a treatment at London Centre for Aesthetic Surgery in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai, the emirate known for its celebration of over-the-top glamour and luxury, is racing ahead to dominate the Middle East's plastic surgery market with plans to attract half a million medical tourists in six years. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Dubai cuts profile as Mideast plastic surgery hub

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Oct. 1, 2013, file photo actor George Clooney attends the premiere of "Gravity" at the AMC Lincoln Square Theaters, in New York. George Clooney has chastised a British newspaper over an article claiming his fiancee's mother disapproves of the impending marriage for religious reasons. Clooney said that the claims about his future mother-in-law Baria Alamuddin were untrue and irresponsible. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Website apologizes for Clooney mother-in-law story

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thirsday, June 19, 2014 file photo, Palestinians watch a World Cup football game on a wide screen on the beach of Gaza City. Politics and conflict are never far from soccer in the Middle East, but this year's World Cup has been entangled with unprecedented sectarian violence and soaring tensions between Arab countries, pushing fans to watch matches in secret or even on a channel owned by region's number one enemy _ Israel.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Arab football fans turn to Israel TV for World Cup

By BARBARA SURK - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a general view shows Aleppo prison in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Syrian troops backed by airstrikes broke a yearlong rebel siege of a prison in the northern city of Aleppo Thursday, allowing President Bashar Assad's forces to close in on a nearby command center of a coalition of Islamist rebel groups, opposition activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Mortar attack on Assad gathering in Syria kills 21

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press