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Vice President Mike Pence greets U.S. troops after speaking at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump touts Turkey cease-fire, even as it appears shaky

By ROBERT BURNS and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

Syrian Kurdish fighters of Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army enter Turkey from Syria to join fighting alongside Turkish forces against US-backed Kurds, in Syria, Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. Turkish forces pushed deeper into northeastern Syria on Friday, the third day of Ankara's cross-border offensive against Syrian Kurdish fighters that has set off another mass displacement of civilians and met with widespread criticism from the international community.(Ugur Can/DHA via AP)

After troops withdraw, U.S. will continue to monitor conflict between Turks and Kurds

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo taken from the Turkish side of the border between Turkey and Syria, in Ceylanpinar, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, smoke billows from targets in Ras al-Ayn, Syria, caused by shelling by Turkish forces, Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. Fighting continued in a northeast Syrian border town at the center of the fight between Turkey and Kurdish forces early Friday, despite a U.S.-brokered cease-fire that went into effect overnight. Shelling and gunfire could be heard in and around Ras al-Ayn, as smoke billowed from locations near the border with Turkey and the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

The Latest: Pompeo optimistic cease-fire in Syria will hold

Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2019 file photo, faith leaders and members of human rights groups wearing a life vests symbolizing the life-saving program are arrested by U.S. Capitol police, during a protest calling congress not to end the refugee resettlement program, at the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The Turkish assault on northern Syria in the wake of President Donald Trump’s troop withdrawal from the region has jeopardized a goal often spotlighted by Trump: global freedom to worship for religious minorities. Top Trump advisers said a Thursday ceasefire would help minority faiths, but it’s not yet clear that the pact will give them the durable protection Kurdish control had offered. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Syria crisis tests Trump’s global religious freedom vows

By ELANA SCHOR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2019 file photo, Salwa Hanna with her children, who are newly displaced by the Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria, carry their belongings after they arrive at the Bardarash refugee camp, north of Mosul, Iraq, For months, every time Turkey threatened to invade northern Syria, Salwa Hanna told her husband they should take their children and flee from the border town of Kobani. And every time, he told her not to worry, because the Americans were there. Now the Christian family is among an estimated 160,000 Syrians who have fled Turkey’s offensive, which began last week after President Donald Trump announced he would move U.S. forces out of the way, abandoning their Kurdish allies. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

‘Only God is with us’: A Syrian family feels betrayed by US

By ANDREA ROSA and JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

File-This June 14, 2015, file photo shows a Turkish soldier offering water to a Syrian refugee child after crossing into Turkey from Syria, in Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey. The photo was taken in Turkey in 2015 by Associated Press photographer Lefteris Pitarakis, not during the recent offensive. The photo was widely shared on Twitter this week, suggesting that the recent assault in northern Syria has not hurt civilians. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

By BEATRICE DUPUY and ARIJETA LAJKA and AMANDA SEITZ - Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with U.S Vice President Mike Pence, prior to their talks at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. A high level U.S. delegation arrived in Turkey on Thursday for talks on a cease-fire in Syria. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

Mike Pence: Turkey agrees to five-day cease-fire to withdraw Kurdish fighters

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the White House, President Donald Trump, center right, meets with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, standing left, Congressional leadership and others, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead via AP)

About that photo: Trump, Pelosi clash amid impeachment

By LAURIE KELLMAN and LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence arrives in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have arrived in Turkey to mount an improbable push for a cease-fire in Syria (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Mike Pence meets with Erdogan, seeks Syria border cease-fire

By Zeke Miller and Robert Burns - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks about Turkey as he arrives at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Donald Trump Syria withdrawal ‘not only appropriate, but overdue,’ foreign policy ‘realists’ say

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to the media after Senate Policy Luncheon in Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Chuck Schumer’s bid to rebuke Donald Trump over Syria fails in Senate

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, talks with U.S Vice President Mike Pence, during their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. A high level U.S. delegation arrived in Turkey on Thursday for talks on a cease-fire in Syria. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

Pence meeting with Turks drags on

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks as Vice President Mike Pence listens during a news conference at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. The U.S. and Turkey agreed to a five-day cease-fire in the Turks' attacks on Kurdish fighters in northern Syria to allow the Kurds to withdraw to roughly 20 miles away from the Turkish border. The arrangement appeared to be a significant embrace of Turkey's position in the weeklong conflict. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Deal between US, Turkey spawns more questions than answers

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

File-Picture taken Oct.14, 2019 shows police forces standing at a railway underpass during a mission in Herne, Germany, During a demonstration by Kurds against the Turkish military offensive in Syria there were riots in the evening. (Marcel Kusch/dpa via AP)

German official condemns violence at Kurdish protest rallies

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Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohamed Alhakim, right, meets with his visiting French counterpart Jean Yves Le Drian at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

FM: Iraq will only repatriate IS fighters who are Iraqis

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Oct.17, 2019. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)

The Latest: Australia won’t retrieve refugees in cease-fire

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Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrive at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, as they depart en route to Turkey. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Latest: US, Turkey agree to cease-fire in Syria

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Greece: 12 detained in Turkey protest

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Turkish Invasion of Syria Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Erdogan’s costly victories

By Jed Babbin

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, left, with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before a meeting, in Istanbul, Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. NATO's secretary-general says Friday he acknowledges Turkey's legitimate security concerns but has urged Ankara to exercise restraint in its incursion into northeast Syria.(Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

Turkish invasion sparks NATO crisis but eviction is unlikely

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press