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This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows a military base known as Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan, on Oct. 12, 2023. Three American troops were killed and "many" were wounded Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024, in a drone strike in northeast Jordan near the Syrian border, President Joe Biden said. He blamed Iran-backed militia groups for the first U.S. fatalities after months of strikes against American forces across the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war. U.S. officials identified Tower 22 as the site of the attack. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Biden pressed to act after deadly strike on U.S. troops; Iran-backed militants trigger turning point

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Emergency services work at a building hit by an air strike in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024. Syrian and Iranian state media outlets say an Israeli strike on t Damascus killed four Iranian advisers. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Israeli airstrike on Syrian capital kills at least 4 Iranian advisers, officials say

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Australia's Jackson Irvine reacts during the Asian Cup Group B soccer match between Australia and Syria at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium in Doha, Qatar, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed)

Irvine goal sees Australia advance to knockout stage of the Asian Cup

By James Robson - Associated Press

Emergency services clear the rubble of the house of Peshraw Dizayi that was hit in Iranian missile strikes in Irbil, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. Dizayi, a prominent local businessman, was killed in one of the Irbil strikes along with members of his family. (AP Photo/Julia Zimmermann/Metrography)

Pakistan recalls ambassador to Iran over airstrike that killed 2 people

By Munir Ahmed and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Syrians look at an abandoned medical facility in the village of Talteta, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, that was hit by Iranian missiles late Monday night, according to a voluntary rescue group White Helmets. Iran fired missiles late Monday at what it claimed was Israeli "spy headquarters" near the U.S. Consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil and at targets linked to the extremist group Islamic State in northern Syria. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Iraq recalls its ambassador, summons Iran’s charge d’affaires over strikes in Irbil

By Salar Salim and Omar Albam - Associated Press

FILE - Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a joint statement with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. Turkey's president has vowed to widen military operations against groups linked to Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq and Syria, days after nine soldiers were killed in an attack on a Turkish military base in Iraq. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos, File)

Turkey’s Erdogan vows to widen operations against Kurdish groups in Syria and Iraq

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Iran's Revolutionary Guard members stand in front of Shahab-3 missile which is displayed during the annual pro-Palestinians Al-Quds, or Jerusalem, Day rally in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 29, 2022. Iran does not recognize Israel and supports Hamas and Hezbollah, militant groups that oppose it. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran announces strikes in Iraq, Syria as regional tensions increase

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Salar Salim - Associated Press

In this image from body camera video during the Oct. 7, 2023, surprise attack on Israel, a Hamas fighter holds a Russian-designed 9M32 Strela anti-aircraft missile. An Associated Press analysis of more than 150 videos and photos taken in the three months of combat since Hamas launched its Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel shows the militant group has amassed a diverse patchwork arsenal of weapons from around the world – much of it smuggled past a 17-year blockade that was aimed at stopping just such a military buildup. (South First Responders via AP)

Hamas fights with a patchwork of weapons built by Iran, China, Russia and North Korea

By Michael Biesecker - Associated Press

An Iranian mourner holds up a poster of Seyed Razi Mousavi, a high ranking Iranian general of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, who was killed in an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria on Monday, during his funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran holds funeral for a general who was killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)

Israeli airstrike in Syria kills a high-ranking Iranian general

By Kareem Cgehayeb - Associated Press

This Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016 photo shows an Israeli Air Force F-15 plane in flight during a graduation ceremony for new pilots in the Hatzerim air force base near the city of Beersheba, Israel. Anti-aircraft missiles were launched from Syria into Israeli-controlled territory early on Friday, following a series of Israeli airstrikes inside Syria, the Israeli military said. The military said its warplanes struck several targets in Syria and were back in Israeli-controlled airspace when several anti-aircraft missiles were launched from Syria toward the Israeli jets. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli airstrike in Syria kills high-ranking Iranian general

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

FILE - The U.S. Embassy is seen from across the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq, on Jan. 3, 2020. A rocket attack at the sprawling U.S. embassy in Baghdad Friday Dec. 8, 2023 caused minor material damage but no casualties, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

A rocket attack targets the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, causing minor damage but no casualties

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir chat after an American Jewish Congress Dinner, Sunday night Nov. 4, 1977, in New York. Henry Kissinger's legacy in the Mideast is the pursuit of what's possible, not necessarily peace, in one of the world's most intractable conflicts. The former U.S. secretary of state, who died this week at age 100, did just that after Egypt and Syria pulled of a surprise invasion of Israel 50 years ago. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz, File)

With ‘shuttle diplomacy,’ step by step, Kissinger chased the possible in the Mideast

By Laurie Kellman - Associated Press

Members of global chemical weapons watchdog vote to keep Syria from getting poison gas materials

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In this photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, a Syrian White Helmet civil defense worker runs at the site where a shell struck in the outskirts of the northern town of Jisr al-Shoughour, west of the city of Idlib, Syria, on Oct. 5, 2023. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File) **FILE**

At least 9 people killed in Syrian government shelling of a rebel-held village, the opposition says

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Vice President Mike Pence pets facility dogs Goldie, right, and Truman, left, as he visits patients and their families and care providers at the USO Warrior and Family Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Four-legged heroes: Congress weighs valor medal for military dogs

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

This image from video provided by the Department of Defense shows a Nov. 8, 2023, airstrike on a weapons warehouse. center, in eastern Syria. The strike targeted a facility linked to Iranian-backed militias, in retaliation for what has been a growing number of attacks on bases housing U.S. troops in the region for the past several weeks. Iranian-backed militants in Iraq and Syria have long battled with U.S. and coalition forces, launching sporadic attacks against bases in the region where troops are deployed to fight Islamic State group insurgents. (Department of Defense via AP)

How the U.S. strikes a balance in responding to attacks on its forces by Iran-backed militias

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

FILE - Syrian President Bashar Assad waves for his supporters at a polling station during the Presidential elections in the town of Douma, in the eastern Ghouta region, near the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. French judicial authorities on Wednesday issued international arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar Assad, his brother Maher, and two army generals alleging their involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity, including in chemical attacks in 2013 on rebel-held Damascus suburbs, lawyers for Syrian victims said. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

France issues arrest warrants for Syrian president, 3 generals alleging involvement in war crimes

By Barbara Surk and Angela Charlton - Associated Press

FILE - Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testifies before a Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 31, 2023. The U.S. launched an airstrike on a facility in eastern Syria linked to Iranian-backed militias, in retaliation for what has been a growing number of attacks on bases housing U.S. troops in the region for the past several weeks, the Pentagon said.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

U.S. conducts airstrikes in Syria against Iran-backed groups

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with a group of students in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Khamenei called on Muslim nations to stop exporting food and oil to Israel over its airstrikes and military offensive in the Gaza Strip. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP) **FILE**

‘Expect Americans in body bags’: Middle East on the brink as U.S., Iran spiral toward war

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times