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A bomb exploded behind the al-Nuri mosque complex, as seen through a hole in the wall of a house, as Iraqi special forces moved toward Islamic State militant positions in the Old City of Mosul on Thursday. (Associated Press)

Iraq’s Mosul victory over ISIS imminent

By Ammar Al Shamary and Gilgamesh Nabeel - Special to The Washington Times

Mohammad al-Haj Ali, 28, and his wife Samah Hamidi, 25, pose for a photo during an interview in their home in Irbid, Jordan on Thursday, June 29, 2017. The family fled the Syrian war in 2012 for Jordan and was in the resettlement pipeline to the U.S. when President Donald Trump's executive order stalled the process. Once sure of his future in the U.S., al-Haj Ali had quit his job, sold the furniture and rented an apartment in the city of Rockford near his uncle's home in Illinois. The family still has five suitcases packed but has scant hope for resettlement in America. (AP Photo/Reem Saad)

EDITORIAL: The wider war in Syria

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Man accused of plotting attacks in US pleaded guilty in 2015

By JOHN SEEWER - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis briefs the press prior to a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Marshall Plan at the George C. Marshall Center in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Mattis says Syria’s government taking US threat seriously

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said that President Trump's tough stand on reform at the U.N. is working as countries can longer take American help for granted. (Associated Press)

Nikki Haley says Trump’s tough stance gets results at U.N.

By Alex Zietlow - The Washington Times

This frame grab from video released Wednesday June 28, 2017, by ANHA news agency for the semi-autonomous Kurdish areas in Syria, that is consistent with independent AP reporting, shows Brett McGurk, left, the top U.S. envoy for the international coalition combatting the Islamic State group, leaving after a visit to Ayn Issa, Syria. McGurk met with members of a local council expected to administer the city of Raqqa in Syria following its capture from the militants. (ANHA News Agency, via AP)

The Latest: Syrian fire hits Golan during Netanyahu visit

Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016 photo released by the Syrian Presidency, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks to The Associated Press at the presidential palace in Damascus, Syria. The Syrian government on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 dismissed White House allegations that it was preparing a new chemical weapons attack, as activists reported an airstrike on an Islamic State-run jail in eastern Syria that they said killed more than 40 prisoners. (Syrian Presidency via AP, File)

Trump Syria Obama Clinton Rice

By Bruce Fein

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis appears at news conference following a Diplomatic and Security Dialogue Meeting with a Chinese delegation including State Counselor Yang Jiechi and military Chief of Joint Staff Fang Fenghui, at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Jim Mattis, Pentagon chief, says White House warnings to Syria stopped chemical attack

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE--In this Oct. 13, 2016 file photo, Khaled Almilaji, who coordinated a campaign that vaccinated 1.4 million Syrian children and risked his life to provide medical care during the country's civil war, stands for a portrait at Brown University in Providence, R.I. Almilaji says he won't return to the United States to finish his studies at Brown because of the Trump administration's travel ban. He was recently awarded a medal for meritorious service from Queen Elizabeth II. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Syrian doctor caught in travel ban gives up, moves to Canada

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT - Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley smiles while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 27, 2017, before the House State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs subcommittee budget hearing on the United Nations and International Organizations. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Haley says warning to Syria also aimed at Russia and Iran

By RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

FILE -In this Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016 file photo released by the Syrian Presidency, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks to The Associated Press at the presidential palace in Damascus, Syria. The Syrian government on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 dismissed White House allegations that it was preparing a new chemical weapons attack, as activists reported an airstrike on an Islamic State-run jail in eastern Syria that they said killed more than 40 prisoners. (Syrian Presidency via AP, File)

Moscow slams White House warning of looming Syrian chemical attack

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 18, 2017 file photo, a Syrian National flag hangs out of a damaged building at the mountain resort town of Zabadani in the Damascus countryside, Syria. The Syrian government on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 dismissed White House allegations that it was preparing a new chemical weapons attack, as activists reported an airstrike on an Islamic State-run jail in eastern Syria that they said killed more than 40 prisoners. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

The Latest: US warns Syria against chemical attack

Associated Press

FILE -In this fie picture taken on Tuesday April 4, 2017, Abdul-Hamid Alyousef, 29, holds his twin babies who were killed during a suspected chemical weapons attack, in Khan Sheikhoun in the northern province of Idlib, Syria. The Syrian government on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 dismissed White House allegations that it was preparing a new chemical weapons attack, as activists reported an airstrike on an Islamic State-run jail in eastern Syria that they said killed more than 40 prisoners. (Alaa Alyousef via AP, File)

Kremlin dismisses US warning of chemical attack in Syria

Associated Press

In this file image taken from video on Monday Oct. 29, 2012, obtained from the Ugarit news network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows smoke rising from the city following heavy bombing from military warplanes, in Deir el-Zour's Jbeileh neighborhood, 450 km northeast of Damascus Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video, File )

Syria denies U.S. allegations of coming chemical attack

By Philip Issa and Jill Colvin - Associated Press

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis appears at news conference following a Diplomatic and Security Dialogue Meeting with a Chinese delegation including State Counselor Yang Jiechi and military Chief of Joint Staff Fang Fenghui, at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Jim Mattis: U.S. arms for Syrian Kurds will continue after Raqqa

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaks during a the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, June 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

White House warns Syria’s Assad against chemical attack

By JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Monday, March 27, 2017, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gestures while speaking during a news conference with Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano following their talks in Moscow, Russia. Lavrov said that no Russian servicemen were hurt in the U.S. strike on a Syrian air base Friday, April 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Russia accuses U.S. of avoiding airstrikes targeting Syrian al Qaeda affiliate

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary James Mattis' authority to set U.S. troop levels for Afghanistan and the fight against Islamic State could ease the bitter bureaucratic battles that divided the Obama White House and the Pentagon over war strategy. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s Pentagon freedom comes with blame

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Israel strikes Syrian positions after fire toward it

Associated Press

In this image provided by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service and released on Friday, June 23, 2017, long-range Kalibr cruise missiles are launched by a Russian Navy ship in the eastern Mediterranean. Russia's Defense Ministry said it fired cruise missiles from the Mediterranean Sea on positions of the Islamic State in Syria. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia fires missiles from Mediterranean at IS in Syria

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press