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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks to the media during a joint news conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, April 21, 2016. Stoltenberg says efforts to stem the tide of migrants seeking the shores of Europe are working.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Jens Stoltenberg, NATO chief: Syria cease-fire best basis for peace

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin pose for members of the media before a bilateral meeting Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, at United Nations headquarters. (Sergey Guneyev/RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

In call with Putin, Obama ignores Russian jets buzzing Navy ship

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In Geneva on Monday, U.N. Syrian Envoy Staffan de Mistura sought to counter the image of a negotiation in trouble, noting that a U.N. team would continue "technical" discussions with them in hopes of firming up a blueprint for a political transition in Syria. (Associated Press)

Syria cease-fire falters as U.S.-backed rebels attack, citing Assad violations

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this April 14, 2016, file-pool photo, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter gestures during a news conference in Manila, Philippines. Carter said he will talk with his commanders in the coming days to identify more ways the U.S. can intensify the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, including more airstrikes, cyberattacks, and American troops on the ground. (Romeo Ranoco/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Ashton Carter, Pentagon chief: U.S. eyes ways to step up Islamic State fight

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

A Syrian army soldier rides his bike on a street in the Palmyra town in the central Homs province, Syria, Thursday, April 14, 2016. Russian combat engineers arrived in Syria on a mission to clear mines in Palmyra, which has been recaptured from Islamic State militants in an offensive that has proven Russia&#8217;s military might in Syria despite a drawdown of its warplanes. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Syrian government team joins Geneva talks amid Aleppo fighting

By Philip Issa - Associated Press

In this April 9, 2016 photo, Kurdish peshmerga soldiers stand guard at a check point in Rabia, northwestern Iraq. When Iraqi Kurdish forces retook Rabia last year it was a major advance against the Islamic State group, which had swept across northern and western Iraq in the summer of 2014 and declared its caliphate across its territory in Iraq and Syria. Now 18 months later, the town demonstrates the difficulties of returning to the way things were before the IS rampage. (AP Photo/Alice Martins)

Pentagon: Successful military campaign against ISIS moving to ‘phase two’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

"We have momentum, and we intend to keep that momentum," President Obama said of the Islamic State terrorist group, which also is known as ISIL and ISIS. "The ISIL core in Syria and Iraq continues to shrink. We are focused, and we are going to win." (Associated Press)

Obama hails ‘momentum’ in ISIS fight in Iraq, Syria

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A Syrian man casts his vote at a polling station during the parliamentary election in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, April 13, 2016. Polling stations opened in government-held parts of Syria where a new 250-member parliament will be elected. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Bashar Assad says Syrian parliament elections blow to ‘terrorism’

By Albert Aji - Associated Press

Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian military's General Staff speaks at a briefing in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, April 11, 2016. The Russian military says it is helping the Syrian army fight the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front around Aleppo, but has no plan to storm the city. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Syrian government launches offensive south of Aleppo

Associated Press

White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Monday said that the aftermath of the ouster of Libya's Moammar Ghadhafi informed President Obama's military decision-making on Syria. (Associated Press)

Obama learned lessons from Libya ‘mistake,’ White House says

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this undated file photo released online in the summer of 2014 on a militant social media account, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, militants of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in a convoy on a road leading to Iraq, in Raqqa, Syria. (Militant photo via AP, File)

ISIS auctions archaeological treasures on eBay to collect $200 million

By Carlo Munoz - Special to The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hand with Syria President Bashar Assad in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Assad has traveled to Moscow in his first known trip abroad since the war broke out in Syria in 2011 to meet his strongest ally Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Syrian and Russian media reported Wednesday. (Alexei Druzhinin, RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

US-RUSSIA CROSSTALK: Syrian settlement as a precondition for routing international terrorism

By Alexander Aksenyonok

An unmanned aerial vehicle's Predator Hellfire missile is shown on a simulator's virtual camera at the March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, Calif., June 25, 2008. (Associated Press)

Pentagon taunts al-Baghdadi: Hellfire missile headed your way

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama, with British Prime Minister David Cameron, speaks during the afternoon plenary session of the Nuclear Security Summit, Friday, April 1, 2016, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Obama: Expect more terrorist attacks as pressure on ISIS increases

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during an award ceremony for young Russian children's writers in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 25, 2016. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin is not pulling Russian forces out of Syria, despite his pledge: U.S. military

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016 photo, Jihad Abu Kahrlah, an archaeologist at the National Museum in Damascus, Syria, works on preserving artifacts rescued from the Daraa Museum in southern Syria. Faced with the Islamic State group onslaught and destruction by looters, Syrian antiquities authorities succeeded in evacuating hundreds of thousands of artifacts from museums around the country to safety in Damascus. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

With jihadis at the door, Syrians rush to rescue history

By MAEVA BAMBUCK - Associated Press

A Lebanese army pilot stands in front of a military Huey II helicopter during a ceremony at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, March 31, 2016. The United states has given Lebanon three military Huey II helicopters to help the country’s armed forces in their battle against extremists near the border with Syria. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon’s military receives 3 helicopters from the U.S.

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

The Operation Inherent Resolve medal (Image: Department of Defense).

Pentagon unveils new medal for troops who fought ISIS

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

A woman is evacuated by emergency services after a explosion in a main metro station in Brussels on Tuesday, March 22, 2016. Explosions rocked the Brussels airport and the subway system Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and injuring many others just days after the main suspect in the November Paris attacks was arrested in the city, police said. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

ISIS social media warning: More attacks will target U.S., Europe

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This image posted online Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015, by supporters of the Islamic State militant group on an anonymous photo sharing website, shows Syrians inspecting a damaged building in the aftermath of an airstrike that targeted areas in Raqqa, Syria. (Militant photo via AP) ** FILE **

Retaking Syria’s Palmyra reveals more shattered antiquities

By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press