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Syrian opposition fighters man a checkpoint in Damascus, Syria, Monday Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Syrian premier says government still functioning, but foreign and domestic challenges loom

By Sarah El Deeb, Bassem Mroue and Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

A man wounded in Turkish shelling is brought to Tal Tamr hospital in north Syria, Monday, Oct. 14, 2019. Syrian government troops moved into towns and villages in northern Syria on Monday, setting up a potential clash with Turkish-led forces advancing in the area as long-standing alliances in the region begin to shift or crumble following the pullback of U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

The Latest: Erdogan rejects call for ceasefire in Syria

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Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters celebrate in Akcakale, in Sanliurfa province advance, after entering over the border from Tal Abyad, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. State-run Anadolu news agency reported Tal Abyad had fallen to a Turkish military offensive on Sunday. (AP Photo/Cavit Ozgul)

The Latest: Syria’s military moves near Turkish border

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The Latest: 2 US troops, 2 US civilians dead in Syria blast

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This frame grab from video provided by Hawar News, ANHA, the news agency for the semi-autonomous Kurdish areas in Syria, shows a damaged restaurant where an explosion occurred, in Manbij, Syria, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Syrian war monitoring group, and a local town council said Wednesday that the explosion took place near a patrol of the U.S.-led coalition and that there are casualties. (ANHA via AP)

ISIS Syria attack renews debate over terrorists defeat, withdraw

By Carlo Muñoz and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan speaks at the beginning of a meeting with Japan's Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, about U.S. troops killed in an explosion while conducting a routine patrol in Syria. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

After Americans killed, Trump’s Syria plan prompts questions

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

This photo released on the Facebook page of the Military Council of Manbij City, shows U.S. troops based around the Syrian town of Manbij speaking with residents, in northern Syria, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. (The Military Council of Manbij City via AP)

The Latest: Turkey-backed Syrians brace for key town clash

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This photo released on the Facebook page of the Military Council of Manbij City, shows U.S. troops based around the Syrian town of Manbij speaking with residents, in northern Syria, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018. (The Military Council of Manbij City via AP)

Syria military takes control of flash-point Kurdish-led town

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FILE -- In this March 29, 2018 file photo, a fighter from the U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council looks through his binoculars to Turkish-backed fighters' positions, at the front line of Halawanji village, north of Manbij, Syria. Sharfan Darwish, spokesman of the Manbij Military Council,w said Thursday Nov. 1, 2018, that joint U.S.-Turkish patrols will begin within hours around the northern Syrian town of Manbij, part of a roadmap for easing tensions between the two NATO allies. Ankara and Washington agreed on a roadmap in June amid Turkish demands for the withdrawal of the U.S.-backed Kurdish militia that freed Manbij from the Islamic State group in 2016. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

US, Turkey begin patrols around northern Syrian town

By SUZAN FRASER and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 13, 2018, file photo, U.S. Central Command commander Gen. Joseph Votel testifies at the Senate Committee on Armed Services on Capitol Hill in Washington. Votel, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East says Turkish and American troops could begin joint patrols in a matter of days around the northern Syrian city of Manbij. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

US, Turkey to soon begin joint patrols in north Syria

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Turkey says it will patrol north Syria town with US forces

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

Turkish official says US and Turkish troops to patrol Manbij

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Turkish soldiers atop an armored personnel carrier patrol the northwestern city of Afrin, Syria, during a Turkish government-organized media tour into northern Syria, Saturday, March 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ** FILE **

Donald Trump’s withdrawal from Syria has Manbij fearing Turkey’s offensive

By Filip Warwick and Jacob Wirtschafter — Special to The Washington Times

Members of the Kurdish internal security forces, right, pass next of damaged shops, at the scene where an explosion on Thursday hit a U.S.-led coalition vehicles, killing an American and a Briton soldiers, in Manbij town, north Syria, Saturday, March 31, 2018. The explosion on Thursday was the first to hit members of the U.S.-led coalition who have deployed to Manbij months after the town was liberated from Islamic State militants in 2016. An improvised explosive device went off during an operation against a known member of the Islamic State group in this mixed Arab and Kurdish town, the U.S-led Coalition said in a statement Saturday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Soldier killed in Syria identified as 36-year-old from Texas

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

A Kurdish security officer, background, escorts Alexanda Amon Kotey, right, and El Shafee Elsheikh, who were allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed &quot;The Beatles,&quot; at a security center in Kobani, Syria, Friday, March 30, 2018. The men said that their home country’s revoking of their citizenship denies them fair trial. “The Beatles” terror cell is believed to have captured, tortured and killed hostages including American, British and Japanese journalists and aid workers. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Bombing kills U.S., British troops in Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Turkey's President and leader of Justice and Development Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the members of his ruling party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish leader, demands U.S. withdrawal from Syrian enclave

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Paul E. Funk speaks to the Associated Press at an American outpost in the northern Kurdish town of Manbij, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. The top U.S. general in the coalition fighting the Islamic State group pledged American troops would remain in the town despite Ankara's demands for a U.S. pullout. Turkey launched an offensive last month to drive Syrian Kurdish militiamen out of the enclave of Afrin and has threatened to extend its operation to Manbij. (AP Photo/Susannah George)

At US outpost in Syria, US general backs Kurdish fighters

By SUSANNAH GEORGE and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

This Tuesday, March 7, 2017, file frame grab from video provided by Arab 24 network, shows U.S. forces take up positions on the outskirts of the Syrian town, Manbij, a flashpoint between Turkish troops and allied Syrian fighters and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters, in al-Asaliyah village, Aleppo province, Syria. (Arab 24 network, via AP, File)

Turkey, U.S. forces on course for clash in Manbij, Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Turkey's Chief of Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, center, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, left, and Russia's Chief of Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov and their delegations attend a meeting in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, Turkey, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Turkey's military says the Turkish, U.S. and Russian chiefs of military staff are meeting in southern Turkey to discuss developments in Syria and Iraq. The meeting comes amid renewed Turkish threats to hit U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish targets in the northern Syrian city of Manbij. (Turkish Military, Pool Photo via AP)

Syria policy debated by Gen. Joseph Dunford and Russian, Turkish counterparts

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this file photo, U.S. Army soldiers with 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), fire an M777 howitzer at Kara Soar Base, Iraq. In March 2021 the 4th Battalion, 319th Artillery Regiment, part of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, will train in France with French-made anti-tank rounds. (Associated Press) **FILE**

ISIS exploits U.S. rules of engagement, Obama’s aversion to civilian deaths even in defeat

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times