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In this photo posted on the U.S. Embassy Kiev Twitter account on May 31, 2019, National Security Council Director for European Affairs Alexander Vindman prepares to lay flowers in honor of fallen Ukrainian soldiers. (U.S. Embassy Kiev Twitter account via AP)

Alexander Vindman, Army lieutenant colonel, to testify in Trump impeachment inquiry

By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick and Colleen Long - Associated Press

Iraq security forces fire tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019. Protests have resumed in Iraq after a wave of anti-government protests earlier this month were violently put down. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

The Latest: Iraq imposes Baghdad curfew amid protests

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President Donald Trump walks from the podium after speaking in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid raises new ISIS fears, questions

By Ben Wolfgang and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Marine vet sentenced for stabbing death

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Turkish soldiers secure in Syrian town of Ras al Ayn, northeastern Syria, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. Turkish media reports say Turkish troops and their allied Syrian opposition forces are securing a town in northeast Syria after Syrian Kurdish fighters pulled out of the area.(Ugur Can/DHA via AP)

Kurds fear Turkey cease-fire collapse, developing humanitarian crisis

By Seth J. Frantzman and Lauren Meier

Defense Secretary Mark Esper talks to reporters at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, where he saw a Patriot missile battery that the U.S. sent to Saudi to help protect the kingdom against the Iranian threat. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)

Mark Esper arrives in Baghdad to discuss U.S. troops leaving Syria

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Mark Esper talks to reporters at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, where he saw a Patriot missile battery that the U.S. sent to Saudi to help protect the kingdom against the Iranian threat. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)

The Latest: US troops from Syria to leave Iraq in 4 weeks

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Defense Secretary Mark Esper talks to reporters at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, where he saw a Patriot missile battery that the U.S. sent to Saudi to help protect the kingdom against the Iranian threat. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)

Iraq official: US troops from Syria to leave Iraq in 4 weeks

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

A U.S. military convoy arrives near Dahuk, Iraqi, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday that under the current plan all U.S. troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq and the military will continue to conduct operations against the Islamic State group to prevent its resurgence. (AP Photo)

Iraq: American troops leaving Syria cannot stay in Iraq

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

In this late Friday, Oct. 18, 2019 photo, Turkish police and army cars escort vans and buses returning from Syria, reportedly carrying IS group members and their families, at the border town of Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey. Turkey's interior minister Suleyman Soylu said Saturday, Oct. 19, that 41 Islamic State members were re-captured in Syria and private IHA news agency said the Turkish nationals among the re-captured were brought over to Turkey in vans. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Erdogan said the Turks captured would be imprisoned and tried in Turkey. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

What Trump gets wrong about war against the Islamic State

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Mark Esper talks with U.S. troops in front of an F-22 fighter jet deployed to Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)

Trump finds no simple fix in Syria, other world hotspots

By AAMER MADHANI and DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Syria to defeat ISIS illustration by Linas Garsys

U.S. intervention realities in the Global War on Terror

By L. Scott Lingamfelter

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, center, walks Gen. Scott Miller, right, chief of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, at the U.S. military headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. Esper arrived Sunday in Afghanistan, where stalled peace talks with the Taliban and persistent violent attacks by the insurgent group and Islamic State militants have complicated the Trump administration’s pledge to withdraw more than 5,000 American troops. He told reporters traveling with him that he believes the U.S. can reduce its force in Afghanistan without hurting the counterterrorism fight against al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Lolita C. Balbor) **FILE**

Mark Esper: U.S. troops pulled from Syria headed to Iraq

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr chant slogans against corruption, the U.S. and Israel during demonstrations between the holy shrines of Imam Hussein and Imam Abbas on the Arbaeen Shiite festival in Karbala, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019. The holiday marks the end of the forty-day mourning period after the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson in the 7th century. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Millions march in Iraq in annual Arbaeen Shiite pilgrimage

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and HADI MIZBAN - Associated Press

Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohamed Alhakim, right, meets with his visiting French counterpart Jean Yves Le Drian at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

FM: Iraq will only repatriate IS fighters who are Iraqis

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Turkish tanks and troops stationed near Syrian town of Manbij, Syria, Tuesday. Oct. 15, 2019. Russia moved to fill the void left by the United States in northern Syria on Tuesday, deploying troops to keep apart advancing Syrian government and Turkish forces.(Ugur Can/DHA via AP)

The Latest: US envoy urges Turkey to stop Syria offensive

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Iraqi security forces secure the Iraq-Syria border around the Rabiaa border crossing, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. Najah al-Shammari, Iraq's defense minister said that some members of the Islamic State group were able to flee northern Syria and cross into Iraq. The Iraqi official added that some of them are still at large while others were detained. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

In Iraq, concern that Syria chaos would bring back IS

By HADI MIZBAN - Associated Press

Illustration on abolishing prisons by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Tehran works to prevent violence in Southern Iraq fom spreading to Iran

By Wes Martin

Syrians walk at the border crossing between Iraq and Syria in Semelka, northeast Syria, Monday Oct. 14, 2019. The border crossing between Iraq and Syria's Kurdish-held northeastern Syria was dreary on Monday. The truck lane of the usually bustling commercial gateway was empty_ only a single pick-up stood in the parking lot with sheep in the flatbed. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Foreigners exit northeastern Syria fearing government reach

By ANDREA ROSA and HUSSEIN MALLA - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 31, 2019, file, photo, women queue for aid supplies at al-Hol camp, home to Islamic State-affiliated families near Hasakeh, Syria. As Turkish troops invade northern Syria and the U.S. abandons its Kurdish allies, there are renewed fears of a prison break in the camp that could give new life to the extremist group. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces are mobilizing to stop the Turkish invasion and say they may not be able to spare enough forces to secure al-Hol, home to tens of thousands of IS-linked women and their children. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Turkish invasion raises fears of Islamic State prison break

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press