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In this May 3, 2019, file photo, Libyans hold a demonstration against military operations by forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter, at Martyrs' Square in Tripoli, Libya. Two Libyan militia commanders and a Syrian war monitor group say Turkey is deploying Syrian extremists to fight in Libya's civil war. These extremists are affiliated with groups like al Qaeda and the Islamic State. They're fighting as mercenaries on behalf of the United Nations-supported government in Libya. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed, File)

Turkey deploys extremists to Libya, local militias say

By Sam Magdy - Associated Press

Turkey's National Defence Minister Hulusi Akar, right, arrives to inspect troops at the border with Syria, in Hatay, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. Turkey hit targets in northern Syria, responding to shelling by Syrian government forces that killed at least eight Turkish military personnel, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. A Syrian war monitor said 13 Syrian troops were also killed.(Turkish Defence Ministry via AP, Pool)

Turkey-backed fighters push Syrian forces out of key town

By SUZAN FRASER and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

This image released by National Geographic shows Dr. Amani, center, in the operating room in Syria in a scene from the Oscar nominated documentary &quot;The Cave.&quot; (National Geographic via AP)

At the Oscars, ‘The Cave’ aims to provide hope to Syria

By JAKE COYLE - Associated Press

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu speaks during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. Cavusoglu said Tuesday Ankara and Moscow were trying to keep peace efforts for Syria alive despite Syrian government advances and a deadly clash between Turkish and Syrian forces in northern Syria. (Turkish Foreign Ministry via AP, Pool)

President: Turkey won’t allow more ground to Syria in Idlib

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

UN experts: Islamic State steps up attacks in Syria and Iraq

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this frame grab from video taken on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020, people ride their motorcycles next to a Turkey Armed Forces convoy is seen at the northern town of Sarmada, in Idlib province, Syria. A large Turkish military convoy moved into the rebel-held areas of northwest Syria on Sunday, witnesses on the ground said, adding it appeared to be heading towards the south of Idlib province. (AP Photo/APTN)

6 Turkish troops, 13 Syrian soldiers killed in north Syria

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Syrians sit in the back of a truck as they flee the advance of the government forces in the province of Idlib, Syria, towards the Turkish border, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Warplanes struck a town in a rebel-held enclave in northwestern Syria, killing several people, including some who were fleeing the attack, opposition activists and a rescue service said Thursday. The attack, believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes backing a Syrian government offensive, also put a local hospital out of service, they said. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Turkish military convoy crosses into rebel-held NW Syria

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Syrians sit in the back of a truck as they flee the advance of the government forces in the province of Idlib, Syria, towards the Turkish border, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Warplanes struck a town in a rebel-held enclave in northwestern Syria, killing several people, including some who were fleeing the attack, opposition activists and a rescue service said Thursday. The attack, believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes backing a Syrian government offensive, also put a local hospital out of service, they said. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Advocacy group: Syria violence hitting children the hardest

By SARAH EL DEEB and ANDREW WILKS - Associated Press

Syrian flee the advance of the government forces in the province of Idlib, Syria, towards the Turkish border, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. Syrian government forces captured one of the largest and most strategic rebel-held towns in the country's northwest, the Syrian military and opposition activists said Wednesday, part of a Russian-backed military assault that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people fleeing to safer areas. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Warplanes kill 10, strike hospital in Syrian offensive

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Syrians drive through the city of al-Mastouma, in Idlib province, as they flee a government offensive, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. Syrian government forces have been on the offensive for more than a month in the northwestern Idlib province, the last rebel stronghold in the country. But in recent days, the government captured more than a dozen villages in the area as the insurgents' defenses began to crumble. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syrian troops capture key town in rebel-held Idlib province

By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, arrives at the Senate for a Republican lunch before work resumes in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, in Washington, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senators press Pentagon for ‘clarity’ on U.S. mission in Syria

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Civilians fled as Iraqi forces advanced on Mosul in 2017 after oppressive occupation by the Islamic State. Shifa al-Nima, a Muslim religious scholar, said he “issued fatwas to confiscate houses of displaced people and permitted ISIS fighters to blow up mosques.” (Associated Press)

Shifa al-Nima, ISIS leader, confessions provide look into atrocities

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE - In this January 13, 2010 file photo, a Syrian employee, holds packets of Syrian currency in the Central Syrian Bank in, Damascus, Syria. With Syria's currency hitting record lows, a nationwide symbolic campaign has been launched by merchants, barbers, supermarkets and even gyms to support the Syrian pound. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Syrians launch symbolic ‘one-pound’ campaign to lift morale

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

Despite President Trump's efforts to pull American forces from a "forever war" in Syria, Pentagon leaders said the mission to protect vital oil fields from ISIS has expanded and now includes a directive to keep anyone — including the Russian military and Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's forces — away from the energy reserves. (Associated Press file photo)

U.S.-Russia ‘engagements’ show risk of oil mission in Syria

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the UNHCR - Global Refugee Forum at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

UN chief urges action to end Syria conflict, support rights

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

This image released by Sesame Workshop shows, from left, Grover, Basma, Ma'zooza and Jad with Rami Delshad, who portrays Hadi in &quot;Welcome Sesame,&quot; a new, locally produced Arabic TV program for the hundreds of thousands of children dealing with displacement in Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. (Sesame Workshop via AP)

‘Sesame Street’ comforts children displaced by Syrian war

By MARK KENNEDY - Associated Press

In this Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, file photo, U.S. forces patrol Syrian oil fields, in eastern Syria. President Donald Trump's decision to dispatch new U.S. forces to eastern Syria to secure oil fields is being criticized by some experts as ill-defined and ambiguous. But the residents of the area, one of the country's most remote and richest regions, hope the U.S. focus on eastern Syria would bring an economic boon and eliminate what remains of the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

U.S. troops block Russian forces from capturing Syrian oil field

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Kosovo woman repatriated from Syria accused of terror

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Car-bomb attack in northern Syria kills 3 Turkish soldiers

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Migrants from Bangladesh push a trolley with collected plastic items as they pass in front the Bank of Greece headquarters in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

EU border chief says migrant entries from Turkey on the rise

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press