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FILE - In this July 24, 2018 file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., attends a news conference following a GOP caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. As Ryan bows out of Congress, he leaves no obvious heir apparent. House Republicans are scrambling to salvage their majority but also confronting a potentially messy GOP leadership battle regardless of which party controls the chamber after the November election. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

GOP fight over leadership after November vote to be messy

By LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

A Jordanian flag flies on a bridge leading from Israel to Jordan, in the Jordan valley area called Baqura, Jordanian territory that was leased to Israel under the 1994 peace agreement between the two countries, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018. Jordan's King Abdullah II on Sunday said he has decided not to renew the lease on two small areas of Baqura and Ghamr, that was part of his country's landmark peace treaty with Israel. The leases expire next year after 25 years. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli farmers concerned about Jordan ending land lease

By ALON BERNSTEIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2018 file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., center, talks with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left, while House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks during a news conference in Washington. As Ryan bows out of Congress, he leaves no obvious heir apparent. House Republicans are scrambling to salvage their majority but also confronting a potentially messy GOP leadership battle regardless of which party controls the chamber after the November election. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

GOP risks messy leadership struggle after November vote

By LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

Jordan cancels part of peace agreement with Israel

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An Israeli soldier opens the border gates as an UN vehicle enters Syria in Quneitra crossing in the Israeli controlled Golan, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. The crossing between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights reopened for U.N. observers who had left the area four years ago because of the fighting there. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

The Latest: Israeli military welcomes reopening of crossing

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An Israeli soldier opens the border gates as an UN vehicle enters Syria in Quneitra crossing in the Israeli controlled Golan, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. The crossing between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights reopened for U.N. observers who had left the area four years ago because of the fighting there. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Syria reopens 2 crossings with Jordan, Israeli-held Golan

By Albert Aji and Omar Akour - Associated Press

Syria and Jordan agree to reopen vital crossing

By ALBERT AJI and OMAR AKOUR - Associated Press

UNICEF: 2 children die in camp along Syria-Jordan border

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FILE - In this Sunday, May 21, 2017 file photo, David Beasley, the new executive director of the World Food Programme, speaks to The Associated Press, in Amman, Jordan. The data technology that underpins virtual currencies like bitcoin is now also used to deliver aid more efficiently by dramatically lowering the risk of bribes and fraud by local officials _ a huge, longstanding problem in the industry. The so-called blockchain keeps a record of all transactions and buyers, making sure recipients get their goods without the added costs of graft or bank transfer fees. The UN’s World Food Programme has been testing the use of blockchain technology since 2017 to manage aid for over 100,000 refugees in camps in Jordan, which hosts over 740,000 people from neighboring countries like war-torn Syria. (AP Photo/Omar Akour, file)

Aid groups now using the same data technology as bitcoin

By ROBERT STEVENS - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian soldier walk inside the Naseeb crossing point with Jordan, Syria, Saturday, Sept 29, 2018. Preparations to reopen a vital border crossing between Syria and Jordan have been completed, setting the stage for its reopening on Oct. 10, Syria's state-run news agency said Saturday. (SANA via AP)

Syria says vital border crossing with Jordan to reopen

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

Daughters of 9/11 victim visit Guantanamo Bay

By CYNTHIA SIMISON - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 16, 2018 file photo, Michael B. Jordan arrives at the MTV Movie and TV Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. A half year after Frances McDormand introduced the world to the concept of an inclusion rider in her Oscars speech, Warner Bros. and its sister companies are announcing a company-wide commitment to diversity and inclusion. The first production to fall under the policy will be the Michael B. Jordan film “Just Mercy,” which begins shooting this week. Jordan was an early advocate of the idea of inclusion riders at his production company and helped craft the framework for WarnerMedia. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Warner Bros. and HBO adopt company-wide inclusion policy

By LINDSEY BAHR - Associated Press

Jordanian soldiers and relatives of Sergeant Hisham al-Agarbeh, who was killed during an attack in the predominantly Christian town of Fuheis yesterday, carry his body during his funeral in Zarqa, Jordan, Sunday, August 12, 2018. The clash was among the deadliest between suspected militants and Jordanian security forces in recent years. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Suspects in latest Jordan attack are homegrown militants

By ALICE SU - Associated Press

A wing of a building is seen collapsed in Salt, Jordan, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018. Jordanian search teams pulled the bodies of three suspected militants from the rubble of their hideout, a government official said Sunday, hours after assailants opened fire and set off explosions that killed three members of the security forces trying to storm the building. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

4 Jordanian troops, 3 suspected militants dead in clash

By OMAR AKOUR - Associated Press

Jordanian forces secure the area Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, after the side of a building collapsed when assailants opened fire and set off explosions late Saturday that killed four members of the security forces trying to storm the suspected militant hideout in Salt, west of the capital of Amman. Jordanian search teams have pulled the bodies of three suspected militants from the rubble of their hideout, a government official said Sunday. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

The Latest: Death toll for Jordan troops in clash rises to 4

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The Latest: Jordan official says 3 police killed in raid

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Russia's special presidential envoy to Syria Alexander Lavrentiev, second left, and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin, left, meet with Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, right, at his house in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 26, 2018. The Russian delegation is in Lebanon to discuss Russian proposals for organizing the return of Syrian refugees from Lebanon and Syria to their homes in Syria. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Some Syrian refugees oppose Russian repatriation push

By FARES AKRAM and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, walks to the House chamber as he prepares to file articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 26, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Conservative Jim Jordan’s speaker run boosts Trump allies

By LISA MASCARO and ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016, file photo, provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, rescue workers move a victim from site of airstrikes in the al-Sakhour neighborhood of the rebel-held part of eastern Aleppo, Syria. The call to get ready came at night. In the raging war zone of southwestern Syria, with enemy government forces on the march, the 98 White Helmets were told to bring spouses, children and but a few belongings to two collection points. Fabled rescuers themselves now in need of rescue, they embarked on a hair-raising journey through Israel, a supposed enemy, enroute to reluctant haven in Jordan, a country already burdened with multitudes of refugees. One woman gave birth along the way, many colleagues were left behind to a fate uncertain, and Syria called the multinational operation by several Western powers a crime. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File)

Trapped Syrian White Helmets live in fear, seek a way out

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

This image made from video released by the Israeli Defence Forces on Sunday, July 22, 2018 shows Israeli soldiers on hand as family members of the White Helmets load into buses to Jordan. The call to get ready came at night. In the raging war zone of southwestern Syria, with enemy government forces on the march, the 98 White Helmets were told to bring spouses, children and but a few belongings to two collection points. Fabled rescuers themselves now in need of rescue, they embarked on a hair-raising journey through Israel, a supposed enemy, enroute to reluctant haven in Jordan, a country already burdened with multitudes of refugees. One woman gave birth along the way, many colleagues were left behind to a fate uncertain, and Syria called the multinational operation by several Western powers a crime. (Israeli Defence Forces via AP)

For trapped Syrian rescuers, an elaborately planned escape

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press