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In this Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, photo, youths climb on the rubble of the collapsed minaret at the heavily damaged Great Mosque of Aleppo, in the Old City of Aleppo, Syria. The mosque, also known as the Umayyad Mosque, a centuries-old treasure at the heart of one of the world’s oldest cities, is today a grim monument to the ravages of Syria’s war. The doors have been blasted away, the walls have been shredded by bullets, and the minaret where the Muslim call to prayer sounded for 900 years has been toppled and shattered. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Syria talks focused on cease-fire get underway in Kazakhstan

By Philip Issa - Associated Press

FILE - In this 2004 file photo the Admiral Kuznetsov carrier sails in the Barents Sea, Russia. Russia says it is withdrawing the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier and some other warships from the waters off Syria as the first step in drawing down forces in Syria. (AP Photo, file)

Russia role in Syria undiminished despite latest withdrawal

By PHILIP ISSA and JIM HEINTZ - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Feb. 24, 2016 file photo, a Syrian shopkeeper waits for customers next to paintings of of President Bashar Assad, and Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, center, at the Souk Tawil market in Damascus, Syria. Turkey said Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016, that Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group, which has sent thousands of fighters to support President Bashar Assad, should withdraw from Syria. In an interview with Turkey's A Haber news channel, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also said Turkey and Russia are close to reaching an agreement on a nationwide Syrian cease-fire that would come into effect by the end of the year. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

The Latest: Cease-fire takes effect in war-ravaged Syria

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In this Oct. 10, 2016, file photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left and Russian President Vladimir Putin, shake hands following the group photo at the World Energy Congress, in Istanbul, Turkey. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel, File)

The Latest: Mortar fire on Russian Embassy in Syria

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3 extremist suspects detained in Kazakhstan

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and King Abdullah II, of Jordan, brief the media prior to talks at the chancellery in Berlin, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Kazakhstan establishes peace prize, awards king of Jordan

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North Korea and Kazakhstan: A study in nuclear contrast

By Douglas Burton

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev (Associated Press/File)

Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan president, wins U.N. Security Council seat in latest power initiati

By Doug Burton - Special to The Washington Times

Kazakhs studying abroad in ambitious Bolashak Program aim to lift former Soviet republic

By Douglas Burton - Special to The Washington Times

In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut Scott Kelly sits inside a Soyuz simulator at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC), Wednesday, March 4, 2015 in Star City, Russia. On Saturday, March 28, 2015, Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will travel to the International Space Station to begin a year-long mission living in orbit. (AP Photo/NASA, Bill Ingalls)

What to pack for year in space? A ‘superhero utility belt’

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

In this March 1, 2002, file photo, a detainee is escorted to interrogation by U.S. military guards at Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)

EDITORIAL: Guantanamo terrorists leave, threat to America grows

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Soldiers from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) 6th Armored Division carry the Chinese type 97 semiautomatic machine guns at their military base on the outskirts of Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ** FILE **

Inside China: A Shanghaied Exercise

By Miles Yu

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. A day ahead of a NATO summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued his own peace plan for eastern Ukraine, calling on the Russian-backed insurgents there to "stop advancing" and urging Ukraine to withdraw its troops from the region. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Former Soviet Bloc nations fear Vladimir Putin assembling new USSR

By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

Canada's Joel Ward celebrates the first goal he scored against Italy goalie Daniel Bellissimo during the first period at the IIHF World Hockey Championship Friday, May 16, 2014, in Minsk, Belarus. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jacques Boissinot)

Canada routs Italy 6-1 at hockey worlds

By KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

Russia forward Danis Zaripov, left and forward Viktor Tikhonov during the Group B preliminary round match between Russia and Kazakhstan at the Ice Hockey World Championship in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Russia routs Kazakhstan 7-2 at worlds

By KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

Kazakhstan city sues ex-mayor in Los Angeles

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Carreno Busta ousts Kukushkin at Portugal Open

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German tennis player Peter Gojowczyk celebrates after winning his single match against French player Jo-Wifried Tsonga, in the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup in Nancy, eastern France, Friday April 4, 2014. Germany leads 2-0 at the end of the first day..(AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

Favorites struggle in Davis Cup quarterfinals

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Roger Federer of Switzerland returns a ball to Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan during the second single match of the Davis Cup World Group Quarterfinal match between Switzerland and Kazakhstan, in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, April 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)

Switzerland, Kazakhstan level at 1-1 in Davis Cup

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Swiss Davis Cup Team captain Severin Luethi, left, speaks to Stanislas Wawrinka, right, of Switzerland, during a training session of the Swiss Davis Cup team prior to the tennis Davis Cup world group quarterfinal match between Switzerland and Kazakhstan, in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone,Salvatore Di Nolfi)

Wawrinka targets 1st Davis Cup title for Swiss

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press