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In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, who was then-U.S. Air Forces Central Command commander, walks with Lt. Col. Joy Boston, 455th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron commander at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, on Oct. 5, 2016. U.S. military phone calls with Russia have increased as the two countries work to avoid aircraft mishaps in the increasingly crowded skies over Syria, a senior American Air Force commander said May 24, 2017. Harrigian, who is in charge of U.S. air operations in the Middle East, also told Pentagon reporters that the U.S. has been setting up temporary &quot;deconfliction&quot; zones around Syria. (Korey Fratini/U.S. Air Force via AP)

US-Russia calls increase to avoid air mishaps in Syria

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

British authorities identified Salman Abedi as the bomber who was responsible for Monday's deadly explosion in Manchester. (Associated Press)

Salman Abedi visited Libya, an ISIS training hotbed

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Activists: Fighting, airstrikes target southern Syrian city

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In this May 18, 2017 photo, Fayez Ghosn surveys damage in his house at the mountain resort town of Zabadani in the Damascus countryside, Syria. Once a popular summer resort famed for its fruit trees and favored by tourists from rich Gulf Arab countries, the Damascus suburb town of Zabadani is now a deserted, endless vista of pulverized buildings after thousands of rebels were driven out along with the town’s original inhabitants. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

In Syria’s devastated twin towns, tears mix with rubble

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Illustration on the newly "elected" president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Iran elections still unfair and not free

By Clifford D. May

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, background center, looks on as a bandaged Syrian refugee has his iris scanned at a supermarket, Sunday, May 21, 2017 in Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan. Haley said the Trump administration wants to step up help for the millions of displaced Syrians. Yet Haley's message is at odds with President Donald Trump's &quot;America First&quot; agenda, his planned budget cuts and his hardline position on admitting refugees. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, Pool)

US ambassador assures Syrian refugees more help is coming

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

Illustration on Iran's threat to an independent Kurdistan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Kurdistan would serve as buffer against Iran

By Rachel Avraham

In this May 15, 2017, photo, Iraqi civilians walk through rubble as they flee fighting between Iraqi special forces and Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq. The United States is looking ahead toward a decisive battleground in its bid to destroy the Islamic State group, even as U.S.-backed local forces must still finish the fight for the extremists’ two main strongholds in Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

US pitches plan to Russia to avoid armed conflict in Syria

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

In this May 15, 2017, photo, Iraqi civilians walk through rubble as they flee fighting between Iraqi special forces and Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq. The United States is looking ahead toward a decisive battleground in its bid to destroy the Islamic State group, even as U.S.-backed local forces must still finish the fight for the extremists’ two main strongholds in Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

US makes proposal to Russia for managing Syria battlefield

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, left, and UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria Staffan de Mistura, right, attend a round of negotiation with Syria's main opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) leader Nasr al-Hariri during the Intra Syria talks, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, May 16, 2017. (Salvatore Di Nolfi, Pool Photo via AP)

The Latest: Syria’s Assad discusses IS fight with Iraq envoy

Associated Press

A huge Syrian National flag hangs out of a damage building at the mountain resort town of Zabadani in the Damascus countryside, Syria, Thursday, May 18, 2017. A U.S. airstrike struck pro-Syrian government forces for the first time, hitting a convoy in the desert near the border with Jordan, U.S. officials and Syrian activists said, an apparent signal to President Bashar Assad to keep his forces out of a zone where U.S.-backed rebels are fighting the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

U.S. warplanes launch airstrikes against regime forces in Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

This photo provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Ghouta Media Center, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian boy who was wounded by Syrian government forces shelling, at a makeshift hospital, in the Hamouriyya neighborhood, an eastern suburb of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, May 16, 2017. Syrian activists say a number of rockets struck the opposition-controlled suburb, killing several people. (Ghouta Media Center via AP)

The Latest: UN suspects cruel treatment in Syrian prisons

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This image provided by the State Department and DigitalGlobe, taken Jan. 15, 2015, a satellite image of what the State Department described as a building in a prison complex in Syria that was modified to support a crematorium. The Trump administration accused the Syrian government of carrying out mass killings of thousands of prisoners and burning the dead bodies in a large crematorium outside the capital. It also stepped up criticism of Iran and Russia for supporting the Syrian government. (State Department/DigitalGlobe via AP)

U.S.: Syria is burning bodies to hide proof of mass killings

By Matthew Lee and Vivian Salama - Associated Press

Syrian refugees rebuild by starting own businesses

By OMAMA ALTALEB - Associated Press

Peace a la Putin

By Jed Babbin

Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, right, shakes hands with U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis, ahead of the Somalia Conference, in London, Thursday, May 11, 2017. (Prime Minister's Press Service, Pool Photo via AP)

James Mattis, DOD chief, meets Binali Yildirim, Turkey’s prime minister, days after Syrian arms deal

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State slogans as they wave the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, on June 16, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Islamic State claims execution of Russian spy; Moscow rejects video footage as ‘fake news’

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times