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In this 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)

Bashar Assad travels to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin

By Albert Aji and Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

Demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they wave the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad on June 16, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Islamic State’s recruiting of foreign fighters falters

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo made from the footage taken from Russian Defense Ministry official web site on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015, a bomb is released from Russian Su-34 strike fighter in Syria. Activists report intense fighting between insurgents and Syrian troops in the country’s center amid new territorial gains for the government, backed by Russian airstrikes. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

80 percent of Russian airstrikes don’t target Islamic State: report

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

A Sukhoi SU-27 jet of the aerobatics team Russian Knights approaches to land at Kubinka Air Base in Kubinka, 65 kilometers (40 miles) outside Moscow, Russia, in this Oct. 15, 2015, file photo. In Kubinka, a vast workshop that upgrades warplanes of the kind Russia is using in Syria is the town’s main lifeblood, and support for the Syria campaign is strong among the town residents. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russians support airstrikes in Syria, despite Afghan legacy

By Katherine Jacobsen - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015, smoke rises after shelling by the Syrian army in Jobar, Damascus, Syria. Backed by Russian airstrikes, the Syrian army has launched an offensive in central and northwestern regions. (Alexander Kots/Komsomolskaya Pravda via AP)

Senior al Qaeda commander killed in an airstrike in Syria

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks about Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Obama announced that he will keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan when he leaves office in 2017, casting aside his promise to end the war on his watch and instead ensuring he hands the conflict off to his successor. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama is adamant: Russian and Iranian military meddling ‘won’t work’ in Syria

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Turkish foreign minister Feridun Sinirlioglu attends a press conference in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Oct. 16, 2015. Turkish jets on Friday shot down an unidentified drone that had violated Turkey's airspace at the border with Syria, the military said. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey shoots down drone at border with Syria

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

White House press secretary Josh Earnest makes a statement about the passing of former White House staffer Brandon Lepow at the start of the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015. Lepow died Monday. Earnest answered questions about Syria, Russia and the TPP. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House doubts reports of Cuban military aid for Syria

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin is engaging with the world community. He said he wants to be remembered as the man who restored his country's greatness. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Valdimir Putin may end Syrian refugee crisis

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A Russian MiG-29 plane flies during a celebration marking the Russian air force's 100th anniversary in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, Russia, in this Aug. 11, 2012, file photo. The Syrian air force has destroyed two of three jets seized and reportedly test flown over Aleppo by the Islamic State group last week, according to Omran al-Zoubi, the country's information minister who spoke on Syrian TV late Tuesday, Oct. 21. 2014. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)

U.S. and Russian fighter jets fly within miles of each other over Syria

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

"How is it possible to work together?" Russian President Vladimir Putin asked at an investment forum in Moscow. "I think some of our partners simply have mush for brains. They do not have a clear understanding of what really happens in [Syria] and what goals they are seeking to achieve." (Associated Press)

Obama rejects Putin’s offer to send emissaries to U.S. to confer on Syria

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Illustration on Putin's goal of dominating the world's oil supply by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

MONICA CROWLEY: Vladimir Putin targets world oil supply

By Monica Crowley - The Washington Times

Syrian President Bashar Assad talking with soldiers with during Syrian Arab Army day in Darya, Syria. (AP Photo/Syrian Presidency via Facebook, File)

Leopoldo Cintras Frias, Cuban military chief, visits Syria

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illustration on the unintended effects of Turkey's laissez faire approach to IS by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

CLIFFORD MAY: Why Turkey is now a target and a tinderbox

By Clifford D. May

The intelligence center has been operational for about a week and already has provided intelligence for airstrikes on a gathering of middle-level Islamic State figures, Hakim al-Zamili, the head of the Iraqi parliament's defense and security committee, told Reuters on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

Iraq uses intelligence center operated by Russia, Iran, Syria; White House alarmed

By Dave Boyer and Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Supporters of the Syrian government hold a pro-Russian banner as they show their support for Syrian President Bashar Assad and to thank Russia and China for blocking a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Syria for its brutal crackdown, during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, in this Oct. 12, 2011, file photo. Russian President Vladimir Putin is winning plaudits from many Syrians and Iraqis, who see Russia's military intervention in Syria as a turning point after more than a year of largely ineffectual efforts by the U.S.–led coalition battling the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman, File)

Russia embassy shelled in Syria by insurgents during rally

By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

This image posted on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015, by the Rased News Network, a Facebook page affiliated with Islamic State, shows Islamic State militants preparing to fire a mortar to shell towards Syrian government forces positions at Tal Arn in Aleppo province, Syria. (Islamic State militant website via AP)

Israel opens fire at Syrian target after rocket attack

Associated Press

Displaced Iraqi civilians from Ramadi stand in a refugee camp west of Baghdad. The Islamic State's rout of Ramadi exposed more than the Iraqi army's lack of will to fight. After months of U.S. and coalition airstrikes on Islamic State targets, U.S. surveillance and intelligence collection, and with senior American officers advising Iraqis at a joint command center, the battlefield outcome still was no better than the rout of Mosul. (Associated Press)

Steven Warren: Islamic State ‘degraded’ by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A Syrian soldier wrapped in a Syrian flag stands in a damaged house in Achan, Syria. Russian jets intensified their airstrikes Monday in the central Syrian province as government and allied troops pushed out insurgents from local villages to expand their control of the area, activists and a military statement said. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

European diplomats tell Russia to stop bombing Syria

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Protesters flash the V-sign and chant slogans as they protest Saturday's bombing attacks, during a rally in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015. The twin explosions Saturday ripped through a crowd of activists rallying for increased democracy and an end to violence between Kurdish rebels and Turkish security forces, killing at least 95, and injuring scores of others, in Turkey's deadliest attack in years. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey investigators focus probe on Islamic State militants

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press