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This picture provided by The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), working alongside the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the United Nations (UN), shows a convoy containing food, medical items, blankets and other materials being delivered to the town of Madaya in Syria, Monday, Jan. 11, 2016. (ICRC via AP)

Aid convoys reach 3 Syria communities besieged for months

By Albert Aji and Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

A rising number of Islamic State fighters are coming from Central Asia, drawn by a hunger for religion and political and social change. (Associated Press)

Silk Road, fabled trade route, now ISIS pipeline to terror

By Douglas Burton - Special to The Washington Times

In this file photo taken on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, shakes hand with Syrian President Bashar Assad as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, looks on in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. (Alexei Druzhinin, RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin says it would be easier to shelter Assad than give asylum to Snowden

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

"While he represented a potential safety threat, there is no indication that he planned any acts of terrorism in this country," U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, in the eastern district of California, said in a statement announcing the arrest of Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab. (Associated Press)

Iraqi refugees arrested on terrorism charges

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, speaks during an interview with the Spanish news agency EFE, in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. The Obama administration's best-case scenario for political transition in Syria does not foresee Assad stepping down as the country's leader before March 2017, outlasting Barack Obama's presidency by at least two months, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press. (SANA via AP)

U.S. sees Bashar Assad staying in Syria until March 2017

By Matthew Lee and Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani briefs media upon his arrival from the U.S. at Mehrabad airport in Tehran, Iran, in this Sept. 29, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s president, criticizes Saudi Arabia over severing ties

By Ali Akbar Dareini and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

A Bahraini protester holds a picture of Saudi Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr during a rally denouncing his execution by Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016, in Daih, Bahrain. Saudi Arabia announced the execution of al-Nimr on Saturday along with 46 others. Al-Nimr was a central figure in protests by Saudi Arabia's Shiite minority until his arrest in 2012, and his execution drew condemnation from Shiites across the region. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

Saudi allies scale back ties with Iran as tensions soar

By Ali Akbar Dareini and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Smoke rises from Islamic State positions following a U.S.-led coalition airstrike, as Iraqi Security forces enter downtown Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015. Islamic State fighters are putting up a tough fight in the militant-held city of Ramadi, slowing down the advance of Iraqi forces, Gen. Ismail al-Mahlawi, head of the Anbar military operations, said Sunday. (AP Photo)

Paris-linked ISIS leaders among 10 killed in U.S. airstrikes: Pentagon

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting of the Presidential Council for Culture and Art in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 25, 2015. (Maxim Shipenkov/Pool Photo via AP)

Russia accuses U.S. of protecting ISIS

By L. Todd Wood

This image made from video made available on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, by Al-Mayadeen, government-controlled Syrian Television, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting shows, drone footage allegedly showing Syrian army airstrikes targeting Zahran Alloush, the head of the Army of Islam group near Damascus, Syria. (Al-Mayadeen via AP video)

Syrian army kills 17 Islamic militants in country’s south

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

This image made from video made available on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, by Al-Mayadeen, government-controlled Syrian Television, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting shows, drone footage allegedly showing Syrian army airstrikes targeting Zahran Alloush, the head of the Army of Islam group near Damascus, Syria. (Al-Mayadeen via AP video)

Zahran Alloush assassinated; top rebel’s death in Syria reshuffles deck ahead of talks

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Pope Francis delivers his "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and to the world) blessing from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Friday, Dec. 25, 2015. Pope Francis is praying that recent U.N.-backed peace agreements for Syria and Libya will quickly end the suffering of their people while praising the generosity of those countries that have taken their refugees in. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis issues Christmas indulgence to spread message of mercy

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

In this Jan. 30, 2015, file photo, a Syrian Kurdish sniper looks at the rubble in the Syrian city of Ain al-Arab, also known as Kobani. The Kurds of Syria and Iraq have become a major part of the war against the Islamic State group, with Kurdish populations in both countries threatened by the militants' advance. (AP Photo, File)

U.S.-backed fighters in Syria capture areas in north from ISIS

By Zeina Karam and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, an F-16 Fighting Falcon takes off from Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, as the U.S. on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, launched its first airstrikes by Turkey-based F-16 fighter jets against Islamic State targets in Syria, marking a limited escalation of a yearlong air campaign that critics have called excessively cautious. (Krystal Ardrey/U.S. Air Force via AP) **FILE**

ISIS peddles instructions online for downing jet fighters with homemade weapons

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015 photo, a boy dressed in a tiny denim suit jacket holds a candle as Iraqi Christians celebrate during Christmas Eve mass in the Al-Bashara Church in a Christian refugee camp in Irbil, northern Iraq. Many of the worshippers are displaced from their homes after Islamic State militants swept through northern Iraq in 2014. (AP Photo/Seivan M.Salim)

Advocacy groups aid Iraq’s Christians ‘forgotten’ in refugee crisis

By Chandra Johnson - Deseret News

In this Dec. 9, 2015 file photo made from video footage provided by the Russian Defense Ministry, a Russian Su-34 bomber drops bombs on a target. A new report by a human rights watchdog group accuses Russia of using cluster munitions and unguided bombs on civilian areas in Syria in attacks that it says have killed hundreds of people. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Accusations grow against Russia over Syria civilian killings

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Behind the scenes, the White House is embracing a strategy that would leave the Syria President Bashar Assad in place as the world unites against a greater immediate threat from Islamic State terrorists. (Associated Press)

Obama yields to Russia and Iran, puts Bashar Assad ouster on back burner

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels in this Feb. 5, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) ** FILE **

Chuck Hagel: Obama told Pentagon to ‘stand down’ on Damascus strikes

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times