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FILE - In this Wednesday, June 14, 2017, file photo, provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows civil defense workers carrying children after airstrikes hit a school housing a number of displaced people, in the western part of the southern Daraa province of Syria. The Israeli military said Sunday it had rescued members of a Syrian volunteer civil organization, known as White Helmets, from the volatile frontier area and evacuated them to a third country, the first such Israeli intervention in Syria's lengthy civil war. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File)

Syria blasts evacuation of White Helmets as ‘criminal’

By PHILIP ISSA - 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

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 14, 2017, file photo, provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows a civil defense worker carrying a child after airstrikes hit a school housing a number of displaced people in the western part of the southern Daraa province of Syria. The Israeli military said Sunday it had rescued members of a Syrian volunteer civil organization, known as White Helmets, from the volatile frontier area and evacuated them to a third country, the first such Israeli intervention in Syria's lengthy civil war. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File)

Syrian White Helmets evacuated to Jordan through Israel

By SARAH EL DEEB and ARON HELLER - Associated Press

In this April 19, 2018, file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Russian soldiers and Syrian government forces oversee the evacuation of rebel fighters from the Army of Islam and their families from the town of Dumayr, northeast of Damascus, Syria. (SANA via AP, File)

Syria civil war nears Israel border, brings possible Iran military presence

By Seth J. Frantzman

Jordanian troops patrol at the Jordanian side of Naseeb border crossing into Syria one day after Syrian army recovered southern territories of Daraa province from insurgents under a surrender deal mediated by Russia. Saturday. July 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Thousands who fled recent fighting in Syria return home

By BASSEM MROUE and FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

This Thursday, July 5, 2018 photo provided by Nabaa Media, a Syrian opposition media outlet, shows smoke rising over buildings that were hit by Syrian government forces bombardment, in Daraa province, southern Syria. Syrian state media and a war monitor say government forces have captured new areas along the border with Jordan and are on the verge of reaching a main crossing between the two countries. (Nabaa Media, via AP)

Syrian troops recapture vital border crossing with Jordan

By OMAR AKOUR and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Britain's Prince William and Jordanian Crown Prince Hussein look at a photograph showing William's wife, the former Kate Middleton, her father Michael and younger sister Pippa in the ruins of the Roman city of Jerash in the 1980s in Jerash, Jordan, Monday, June 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Raad al-Adayleh)

Prince William tours Roman ruins in Jordan, meets refugees

By OMAR AKOUR - Associated Press

This Friday, June 15, 2018 photo, shows Stephanie Neary, left, wiping away a tear while talking about her boyfriend, Richard Jordan, right, of Middleburg, Pa., who survived being electrocuted on March 6 by a high voltage power line and falling more than 20 feet while trimming a tree. Jordan's heart started beating again, a full quarter-hour following the accident. Jordan's recovery is stunning everybody. He returned home April 19, a little more than six weeks after the accident. (Robert Inglis/The Daily Item via AP)

Tree-trimmer electrocuted on the job is back home recovering

By JUSTIN STRAWSER and The (Sunbury) Daily Item - Associated Press

Evidence in 38-year-old cold case to be re-examined

By RACHEL STEFFAN - Associated Press

Jordan hosts security conference, weapons exhibition

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FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2018 file photo Idaho state Rep. Paulette Jordan speaks during a women's march rally in Las Vegas. Jordan has since come under fire for sending a campaign email that some argued misled voters into thinking she had been endorsed by the Idaho Democratic Party. (AP Photo/John Locher,File)

Jordan: Campaign email wasn’t meant to mislead Idaho voters

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 20, 2018 photo, dispatchers monitor street surveillance cameras at Jordan's 911 emergency call center, in Amman, Jordan. The U.S.-funded operation is part of a broader program of upgrading Jordan's domestic law enforcement efforts by the State Departments Anti-Terrorism Assistance. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

US anti-terror training abroad includes K-9, cyber security

By KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

In this Sunday, March 18, 2018 photo, Palestinian security forces participate in a training drill on how to retake a police station that has come under attack, at the Jordan International Police Training Center, in the Jordanian town of al-Muwaqqar, about 34 miles (55 km) southeast of the capital, Amman. Jordan has become a regional center for training visiting counterterrorism forces from across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, with key programs backed by the United States. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

In US-run drill, Iraqi SWAT team taught to respond to bombs

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In this March 5, 2018 photo, one-year-old Syrian refugee Eman Zatima is prepared by medical staff for surgery, at a hospital in Amman, Jordan. Eman, who has a heart defect, received a life-saving pro bono surgery from doctors sent by the Vatican's Bambino Gesu Hospital. The infant is one of the few lucky Syrian refugees with severe medical conditions to get the needed treatment. Dozens more are left untreated each month because of funding constraints in overwhelmed refugee host countries in the region. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Syrian refugee baby gets life-saving surgery, others wait

By ALICE SU - Associated Press

UNICEF: Basic needs of young Syrian refugee children not met

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No new appeal for convict, despite defense lawyer’s romance

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

Virginia man pleads guilty to lying about trip to Jordan

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In this Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018 photo, a family walk past a tank at the Royal Tank Museum in Amman, Jordan. The museum displaying 110 battle-worn tanks from a century of wars in the Middle East and from more distant conflicts opened last week. Curators collected the armored vehicles over the past decade, including some that served in both sides of the Iran-Iraq war and in the conflicts between Israel and its Arab neighbors in the Golan Heights, Jordan and Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)

Tank museum displaying 110 battle-worn tanks opens in Jordan

By SAM McNEIL - Associated Press

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, and his wife, Elke Büdenbender, speak to an aid worker in the Azraq camp for Syrian refugees, 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of Amman, Jordan, Monday, Jan. 29, 2018. German president says moving German troops from Turkey to Jordan as part of an international military campaign against Islamic State extremists was “the right choice.” (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)

German president: Moving troops to Jordan was ‘right choice’

By KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

The U.N. refugee agency's special envoy, actress Angelina Jolie speaks with a Syrian child during her visit to the Zaatari Syrian Refugee Camp, in Mafraq, Jordan, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Angelina Jolie calls for long-term Syrian refugee solution

By ALICE SU - Associated Press