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FILE - Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 20, 2013. Ten years after the Islamic State group declared its caliphate in large parts of Iraq and Syria, the extremists now control no land, have lost many prominent founding leaders and are mostly away from the world news headlines. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

A decade after the Islamic State group declared a caliphate, it’s defeated but remains lethal

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this photo released on Nov. 9, 2019, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks in Damascus, Syria. The Paris appeals court has decided on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, to uphold an arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar Assad that France issued last year for alleged complicity in war crimes during Syria's civil war. (SANA via AP, File)

Paris court upholds validity of France’s arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar Assad

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Fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah carry out a training exercise in Aaramta village in the Jezzine District, southern Lebanon, Sunday, May 21, 2023. Thousands of fighters from Iran-backed groups in the Middle East are offering to come to Lebanon to join the militant Hezbollah group in its fight with Israel. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Thousands of Iran-backed fighters offer to join Hezbollah in its fight against Israel

By Bassem Mroue and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Maryam Kamalmaz hold a photo of her father with some of his 14 grandchildren in Grand Prairie, Texas, Jan. 17, 2024. U.S. officials have developed specific and highly credible intelligence suggesting that Majd Kamalmaz, an American citizen who disappeared seven years ago while traveling in Syria has died, Maryam Kamalmaz said Saturday, May 18. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Intel suggests American who vanished in Syria in 2017 has died, daughter says she was told

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Cyprus' interior minister Konstantinos Ioannou, second left, talks with his counterparts Austria's Gerhard Karner, left, Czech's Vít Rakusan, right, and Greece's Minister Of Immigration and Asylum Dimitris Kairides, second right, during the Ministerial Summit Migration and Syria Dynamics in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, May 17, 2024. The governments of eight European Union member states say the situation inside Syria should be re-evaluated to allow for voluntary returns of Syrian refugees back to their homeland. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

8 EU members say conditions in Syria should be reassessed to allow voluntary refugee returns

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

A Syrian refugee woman carries her child as she prepares to go back home to Syria as part of a voluntary return, in the eastern Lebanese border town of Arsal, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Hundreds of Syrians refugees left a remote northeastern Lebanese town back to Syria in a convoy, amid a surge in anti-refugee sentiment in the small, crisis-hit country. Lebanese officials for years has urged the international community to resettle the refugees in other countries or help them return to Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hundreds of Syrian refugees head home as anti-refugee sentiment surges in Lebanon

By Fadi Tawil and Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

FILE - Mohammed Hassan Masto sits next to the grave of his brother Lutfi on May 7, 2023, in the village of Qorqanya, a rural area in northern Idlib province, Syria. Central Command said Thursday, May 2, 2024, an airstrike in Syria that was targeting an al-Qaida leader misidentified the intended target and killed Lutfi Hassan Masto instead. The investigation confirms early reports from residents and family members shortly after the attack. (AP Photo/Omar Albam, File)

U.S. airstrike targeting al Qaeda leader in Syria killed a farmer, American military says

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

FILE - Kurdish forces patrol al-Hol camp, which houses families of members of the Islamic State group in Hasakeh province, Syria, on April 19, 2023. Iraq has repatriated hundreds more of its citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria, Iraqi and Syrian officials said Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

Iraq brings home nearly 700 more citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a Syrian camp

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

General view of the Stockholm District Court ahead of the main hearing against the former Syrian Brig. Gen. Mohammed Hamo, who stands accused of aiding and abetting war crimes in Syria in 2012, and whose trial starts Monday, April 15, 2024 (Oscar Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)

The trial of a former Syrian general over alleged role in war crimes starts in Stockholm

By Chisato Tanaka - Associated Press

A demonstrator waves Iranian and Palestinian flags during an anti-Israeli gathering at the Felestin (Palestine) Square in Tehran, Iran, early Sunday, April 14, 2024. Iran launched its first direct military attack against Israel Saturday. The Israeli military says Iran fired more than 100 bomb-carrying drones toward Israel. Hours later, Iran announced it had also launched much more destructive ballistic missiles. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

The Latest | Israel says 99% of drones and missiles launched by Iran were intercepted

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Iranian demonstrators chant slogans during an anti-Israeli gathering in front of the British Embassy in Tehran, Iran, early Sunday, April 14, 2024. Iran launched its first direct military attack against Israel on Saturday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Israel hails ‘success’ in blocking Iran’s unprecedented attack. Biden now seeks diplomatic response

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Israeli Iron Dome air defense system launches to intercept missiles fired from Iran, in central Israel, Sunday, April 14, 2024. Iran launched its first direct military attack against Israel on Saturday. The Israeli military says Iran fired more than 100 bomb-carrying drones toward Israel. Hours later, Iran announced it had also launched much more destructive ballistic missiles. (AP Photo/Tomer Neuberg)

Israel hails ‘success’ in blocking Iran’s unprecedented attack. Biden now seeks diplomatic response

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Emergency services work at a destroyed building hit by an air strike in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 1, 2024. An Israeli airstrike has destroyed the consular section of Iran's embassy in Damascus, killing or wounding everyone inside, Syrian state media said Monday. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Syria says an Israeli airstrike has destroyed Iran’s consulate building in Damascus, with deaths

By Kareem Chehayeb and Albert Aji - Associated Press

America's bad deal for Israel to end war with Hamas illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden places restrictions on Israel, but not on Hamas

By Cal Thomas

FILE - This undated photo released by the Metropolitan Police of London, shows Shamima Begum. Shamima, who traveled to Syria as a teenager to join the Islamic State group, has lost her appeal against the British government's decision to revoke her U.K. citizenship. Shamima Begum, who is now 24, was 15 when she and two other girls from London joined the extremist group in February 2015. Authorities withdrew her British citizenship on national security grounds soon after she surfaced in a Syrian refugee camp in 2019. (Metropolitan Police of London via AP, File)

U.N.-backed commission says 30,000 children are suffering rights abuses in northeastern Syria

By Jamey Keaten and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press