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In this photo provided by Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, Stéphane Romatet, head of the crisis management and support center in the French Foreign Ministry, left, poses for a photo with Robel Baho, deputy head of the External Relations Department of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, after signing a document of surrender for women and children of Islamic State group militants, at the department's headquarters in the city of Qamishli, Syria, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023. France has repatriated another group of women and children from former Islamic State group-controlled areas of Syria. (Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria via AP)

France: More women, children returned from IS camps in Syria

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Dr. Muhammad Bakr Ghbeis, president of Citizens for a Secure and Safe America, outside the U.S. Capitol. Citizens for a Secure and Safe America briefs Congress across the aisles, in addition to updating the White House, State Department and Defense Department with information from inside Syria.

Syrian-American advocacy group criticizes U.S. policy, lack of action on Assad, civil war injustices

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video Hoda Muthana talks during an interview in Roj detention camp in Syria where she is being held by U.S.-allied Kurdish forces, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022. Muthana, who ran away from home in Alabama at the age of 20, joined the Islamic State group and had a child with one of its fighters says she still hopes to return to the United States, serve prison time if necessary, and advocate against the extremists. (AP Photo/The News Movement)

Alabama woman who joined IS hopes to return from Syria camp

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A fighter from the Christian Syriac militia that battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an IS flag on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria, July 17, 2017. The leader of the Islamic State group, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed in a battle recently, the group’s spokesman said in audio released Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, without giving further details. No one claimed responsibility for the killing. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Pentagon warns of ‘next generation’ of extremist fighters as terror group ISIS plots 2023 comeback

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. military vehicles on a patrol in the countryside near the town of Qamishli, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. U.S. and Kurdish-led forces had arrested an Islamic State group militant in eastern Syria. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said in a statement Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, that they raided the home of an unnamed IS militant leader in the western countryside of Deir el-Zour and arrested him. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

Syrian Democratic Forces say 6 fighters killed in IS attack

By Hogir Al Abdo - Associated Press

U.S. troops launched a counterterrorism operation on Thursday that resulted in the capture of an experienced Islamic State bomb maker who also was identified as a top leader of the ISIS branch in Syria. Photo: Aleppo, Syria 18 NOV 2017. Logos written by ISIS fighters on the walls. Mohammad Bash via Shutterstock. ** FILE **

U.S. helicopter raid kills two ISIS officials in Syria, Pentagon says

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A motorist passes by a flag of the Islamic State group in central Rawah, 175 miles (281 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, July 22, 2014. (AP Photo) **FILE**

ISIS says leader al-Qurayshi killed in battle, names replacement

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Turkey's defense ministry, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, right, and top army commanders work at the Air Force command center, in Ankara, Turkey, early Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022. Turkey launched airstrikes over northern regions of Syria and Iraq, the Turkish Defense Ministry said Sunday, targeting Kurdish groups that Ankara holds responsible for last week's bomb attack in Istanbul. (Turkish Defense Ministry via AP)

U.S. official urges ‘de-escalation’ as Turkey strikes Syria

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Representatives of the Turkish communities put flowers over a memorial placed on the spot of Sunday's explosion on Istanbul's popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022.Turkish police said Monday they have detained a Syrian woman with suspected links to Kurdish militants and that she confessed planting a bomb that exploded on a bustling pedestrian avenue in Istanbul, killing six people and wounding several dozen others. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Turkey detains suspect linked to Istanbul bombing in Syria

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Forensic experts collect a dead body after an explosion on Istanbul's popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue Sunday, Istanbul, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. (Ismail Coskun/IHA via AP, File)

Why Istanbul blast has political implications

By Zeynep Bilginsoy - Associated Press

Members of the National Front for Liberation fire towards government positions in response to the shelling of Maram camp in Idlib province, Syria, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022. Syrian government forces shelled tent settlements housing families displaced by the country's conflict in the rebel-held northwest early Sunday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens, opposition war monitors and first responders said. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Strikes in Syria hit fuel convoy from Iraq; Iranians killed

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this photo released by Iranian Army on Aug. 24, 2022, drones are prepared for launch during a military drone drill in Iran. The Iranian-made drones that Russia sent slamming into central Kyiv this week have produced hand-wringing and consternation in Israel, complicating the country’s balancing act between Russia and the West. (Iranian Army via AP)

‘Terror weapon’: With starring role in Ukraine, Iran’s drones poised to become even more lethal

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A site of cement maker Lafarge is pictured in Paris, Nov. 14, 2017. Lafarge has pleaded guilty to paying $17 million to the Islamic State group so that a plant in Syria could remain open, in a case the Justice Department describes as the first of its kind. The charges were announced Tuesday in federal court in New York City. The allegations involve conduct that was earlier investigated by authorities in France. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

U.S.: French cement firm admits to paying Islamic State group

By Eric Tucker and Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press

Women walk in a neighborhood heavily damaged by airstrikes in Idlib, Syria, March 12, 2020. Syrians in the last major rebel stronghold in the war-ton country are living in fear of the effects of Russia closing down the only border crossing into the northwestern province of Idlib. Aid agencies warn that if Russia vetoes the resolution that would maintain two border crossing points from Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid, food would be depleted in Idlib and surrounding areas by September, 2022, putting the lives of some 4.1 million people, at risk. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

U.S. battles ISIS, Iran-backed militias as Syria quietly becomes top global war zone

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Women speak to guards at the gate that closes off the section for foreign families who lived in the Islamic State's so-called caliphate, at Al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria, March 31, 2019. U.S.-backed Syrian fighters said Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, they have concluded a 24-day sweep at operation at a sprawling camp in northeast Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

US-backed Syrian forces free women in 3-week raid of IS camp

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

A Hezbollah member wears a vest with Arabic that reads: &quot;40 years and we stay with Hussein (the Prophet Muhammad's grand son),&quot; during the holy day of Ashoura that commemorates the 7th century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Hussein, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 9, 2022. Forty years since it was founded, Lebanon's Hezbollah has transformed from a ragtag organization to the largest and most heavily armed militant group in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah at 40 stronger than ever but has more enemies

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this file photo, American soldiers deploy in Hassakeh, Syria, Tuesday, Jen. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Hogir Al Abdo) **FILE**

U.S. responds following Iran-backed rocket attack that injured three American troops

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter fires rockets to engage a target during Super Garuda Shield 2022 joint military exercises in Baturaja, South Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. The United States and Indonesian militaries conducted the annual combat exercises on Indonesia's Sumatra island, joined for the first time by participants from other partner nations including Australia, Japan and Singapore, signaling stronger ties amid growing maritime activity by China in the Indo-Pacific region. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) **FILE**

Syrian strikes, U.S. casualties complicate Biden’s delicate diplomacy with Tehran

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. military convoy drives near the town of Qamishli, north Syria, Saturday, Oct. 26. 2019. A U.S. convoy of over a dozen vehicles was spotted driving south of the northeastern city of Qamishli, likely heading to the oil-rich Deir el-Zour area where there are oil fields, or possibly to another base nearby. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, also reported the convoy, saying it arrived earlier from Iraq. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Pentagon: Iran-backed militants attack U.S. base in Syria

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Monday, Aug. 11, 2014m file photo, F/A-18 fighter jets take off for a mission in Iraq from the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in the Persian Gulf. The U.S.-led coalition has carried out over 4,100 airstrikes against Islamic State radicals, with limited results. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

U.S. airstrikes target militia-controlled areas in east Syria

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