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This image made from video made available on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, by Al-Mayadeen, government-controlled Syrian Television, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting shows, drone footage allegedly showing Syrian army airstrikes targeting Zahran Alloush, the head of the Army of Islam group near Damascus, Syria. (Al-Mayadeen via AP video)

Syrian army kills 17 Islamic militants in country’s south

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

This image made from video made available on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, by Al-Mayadeen, government-controlled Syrian Television, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting shows, drone footage allegedly showing Syrian army airstrikes targeting Zahran Alloush, the head of the Army of Islam group near Damascus, Syria. (Al-Mayadeen via AP video)

Zahran Alloush assassinated; top rebel’s death in Syria reshuffles deck ahead of talks

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

In this Jan. 30, 2015, file photo, a Syrian Kurdish sniper looks at the rubble in the Syrian city of Ain al-Arab, also known as Kobani. The Kurds of Syria and Iraq have become a major part of the war against the Islamic State group, with Kurdish populations in both countries threatened by the militants' advance. (AP Photo, File)

U.S.-backed fighters in Syria capture areas in north from ISIS

By Zeina Karam and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

A Predator B unmanned aircraft taxis at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Syrian forces unleash ‘suicide’ drones on rebels

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, shakes hand with Syrian President Bashar Assad as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, looks on in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. (Alexei Druzhinin, RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Bashar Assad travels to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin

By Albert Aji and Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

Russian naval ships launched cruise missiles Wednesday as President Vladimir Putin's military bombarded parts of Syria by air, land and sea, claiming Islamic State militants were the targets. (Associated Press)

Putin’s motives in Syria questioned as Russia targets pro-Western rebels, not Islamic State

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

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

ISIS Dominoes Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

WILLIAM TRIPLETT: Syria’s collapse crushing millions

By William C. Triplett II

Syrian President Bashar Assad visits troops on the front line in Damascus. Officials said several jihadi factions, including the ruthless Islamic State, are gaining ground quickly against the regime's fighters in several parts of the nation. (Associated Press)

Russian, Iranian loyalty to Bashar Assad tested as Syria approaches ‘tipping point’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Obama speaks in Washington on June 9, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

EDITORIAL: Obama must deal with Syria’s chemical weapons

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this picture released on Wednesday, May 20, 2015, by the website of Islamic State militants, an Islamic State fighter fires his weapon during a battle against Syrian government forces on a road between Homs and Palmyra, Syria. Islamic State militants overran the famed archaeological site at Palmyra early on Thursday, just hours after seizing the central Syrian town, activists and officials said, raising concerns the extremists might destroy some of the priceless ruins as they have done in neighboring Iraq. (The website of Islamic State militants via AP)

Islamic State in control of Palmyra ruins, Syrian activists say

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

FILE - This Saturday, July 21, 2012 citizen journalist file image shows Syrians walking past destroyed vehicles after fighting between rebels and Syrian troops in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in south Damascus, Syria. On Saturday, April 4, 2015, Syrian activists said that Islamic militants have taken over the majority of neighborhoods in the Palestinian refugee camp on the edge of Damascus as fighting continues for the fourth day. (AP Photo, File)

Islamic militants march deep into Damascus; civilians flee Yarmouk camp

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

From the Islamic State's circulation on social media of photos depicting a so-called "cyclops baby" to its fixation on a Syrian town where the prophecies say the final battle will occur, analysts say the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is tapping mythology to convince his followers that the apocalypse has already begun. (Associated Press)

Apocalypse prophecies drive Islamic State strategy, recruiting efforts

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this March 18, 2013, file image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, free Syrian Army fighters fire at Syrian army soldiers during a fierce firefight in Daraa al-Balad, Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video, File)

Rebels push forward in southern Syria

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014 photo, men stroll down a promenade in the Syrian coastal city of Tartous. Syrians are adjusting to life in their truncated country. Despite being battered by a war, now in its fourth year, the country is still firmly under the grip of President Bashar Assad despite an armed rebellion to uproot him and losing territory to opposition rebels and the extremist Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Diaa Hadid)

Gunmen kill 5 nuclear engineers in Syrian capital: reports

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A woman lights up a cigarette in the DJ booth at a Halloween party in an upscale Damascus hotel, Syria. Amid a conflict grinding well into its fourth year, Syrians have sought to deny war its miserable monotony by taking pleasure in mindless entertainment, ranging from lounging in cafes, to dancing to thumping discos. (AP Photo/Diaa Hadid)

SYRIANS PARTY AMID WAR: Syrian fun seekers not stopped by war

By DIAA HADID - Associated Press