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A pair of U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle flies over northern Iraq, after conducting airstrikes in Syria on Sept. 23, 2014. (Associated Press)

U.S. fighter jets hit Iran-backed militias in Syria again

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Israeli soldiers move towards the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel Wednesday, Nov.1, 2023. Israeli ground forces have been operating in Gaza in recent days as Israel presses ahead with its war against Hamas militants. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

‘One fight’: White House links Russia, Hamas, China as it pushes $106 billion funding bill

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

The United Nations special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, speaks to journalists in Damascus, Syria, Feb. 13, 2023. Pedersen said Monday, Oct. 30, that the Israel-Hamas war is spilling into Syria, fueled by growing instability, violence and a lack of progress toward a political solution to its 12-year conflict. Pedersen told the Security Council that, on top of violence from the Syrian conflict, the Syrian people now face “a terrifying prospect of a potential wider escalation” following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and the ongoing retaliatory military action. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)

A U.N. envoy says the Israel-Hamas war is spilling into Syria, adding to growing instability there

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Mourners embrace during the funeral of Meni and Ayelet Godard, in Kibbutz Palmachim, Israel Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. The Israeli couple were killed by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, in Kibbutz Be'eri near the border with the Gaza Strip. More than 1,400 people were killed and some 220 captured in an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel by the militant group that rules Gaza. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel expands ground campaign in Gaza, as fears of widening regional war rise

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrives for a classified briefing for Senators on Israel and Gaza at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

U.S. strikes Iran-linked sites in Syria in retaliation for attacks on American troops

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

In this photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, from left: Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Aziz, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan pose for a photo during their meeting in Tehran, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

Dealing with an emboldened Iran

By Joseph R. DeTrani

A Palestinian girl reacts as a child is carried from the rubble of a building after an airstrike in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Live updates | Israel says it’s stepping up attacks on the Gaza Strip

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli strike hit a compound beneath a mosque in Jenin refugee camp, West Bank, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. The Israeli army said it was being used by militants planning an imminent attack. The Palestinian Ministry of health said two people were killed. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Escalation of Middle East war appears inevitable; more U.S. troops get ‘prepare to deploy’ orders

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Palestinians rescue a woman after an Israeli airstrike on buildings of the Abu Asad family in Deir el-Balah, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah)

Israel strikes Gaza, Syria and West Bank as war against Hamas threatens to ignite other fronts

By Najib Jobain, Samy Magdy and Ravi Nessman - Associated Press

An Israeli soldier mistakenly thinks he hears an air raid siren and jumps to the ground to take cover in Kibbutz Be'eri, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. The kibbutz was overrun by Hamas militants from Neraby Gaza Strip Saturday when they killed and captured many Israelis. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel-Hamas clash sparks fears of ‘World War’-style escalation

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Demonstrators hold pictures of people they say disappeared in Syria outside the World Court, where preliminary hearings opened in a case in which the Netherlands and Canada are suing Syria at the International Court of Justice, or World Court, the United Nations' highest judicial organ, in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, accusing Damascus of massive human rights violations against its own people. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Canada and the Netherlands take Syria to top U.N. court, accuse Damascus of widespread torture

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan attends a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 31, 2023. Fidan warned on Wednesday Oct. 4, 2023 that Kurdish militants behind a suicide bombing in the Turkish capital face robust retaliation against their group’s positions in Syria and Iraq. (Maxim Shemetov/ Pool Photo via AP, File)

Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militia targets in Syria after U.S. downed Turkish armed drone

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows Syrian Health Minister Hassan al-Ghabash, center, checking a man injured in a drone attack that hit a military graduation ceremony in Homs, Syria, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. Syria's health minister has raised the casualty tolls from a drone attack that hit a packed military graduation ceremony to 80 killed and 240 wounded. It was one of the deadliest attacks on the Syrian army recently, with its conflict now in its thirteenth year. (SANA via AP)

Syria holds funerals for dozens of victims killed in deadliest attack in years

By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows a Syrian man injured in a drone attack that hit a packed military graduation ceremony in the central city of Homs, Syria, lying in a hospital on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. Syria's health minister has raised the casualty tolls from a drone attack that hit a packed military graduation ceremony to 80 killed and 240 wounded. It was one of the deadliest attacks on the Syrian army recently, with its conflict now in its thirteenth year. (SANA via AP)

Drone attack kills 80 and wounds 240 at a packed Syrian military graduation ceremony, official says

By Kareem Chehayeb and Albert Aji - Associated Press

FILE - U.S. fighter aircraft F-16 performs aerobatic maneuvers on the last day of Aero India 2019 at Yelahanka air base in Bangalore, India, Feb. 24, 2019. The U.S. has once again buckled under pressure from European allies and Ukraine's leaders and agreed to provide more sophisticated weapons to the war effort. This time it's all about F-16 fighter jets. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)

U.S. F-16 shoots down armed Turkish drone over scrambled Syrian battlefield

By Ben Wolfgang and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan attends a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 31, 2023. Fidan warned on Wednesday Oct. 4, 2023 that Kurdish militants behind a suicide bombing in the Turkish capital face robust retaliation against their group’s positions in Syria and Iraq. (Maxim Shemetov/ Pool Photo via AP, File)

Turkey strikes Kurdish militants in Iraq again after warning of retaliation for a bombing in Ankara

Associated Press

This image from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, a Tu-22M3 bomber of the Russian air forces flies over the Mediterranean after taking off from the Hemeimeem Air Base in Syria, on Feb. 19, 2022. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Top Air Force general in Middle East: Russia dials back provocative air operations in Syria

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

The seal for the U.S. Central Command is displayed on Feb. 6, 2017, at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla. The U.S. military says it has captured an operator for the Islamic State extremist group during a helicopter raid in northern Syria. U.S. Central Command said in a statement Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, that the operator, Abu Halil al-Fad’ani, “was assessed to have relationships throughout the ISIS network in the region." It says his capture on Saturday increases the chance that U.S. counterterrorism operations there will be able to target additional members of the group. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

U.S. military captures key Islamic State militant during helicopter raid in Syria

By Tara Copp - Associated Press

U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters sit on their armored vehicles, at al-Sabha town in the eastern countryside of Deir el-Zour, Syria, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. Weeklong clashes between rival U.S.-backed militias in eastern Syria, where hundreds of American troops are deployed, point to dangerous seams in a coalition that has kept on a lid on the defeated Islamic State group for years. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

U.S.-backed Kurdish forces impose curfew in eastern Syria after new clashes with rival Arab militia

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

China's President Xi Jinping attends the plenary session during the 2023 BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Aug. 23, 2023. China and Syria will announce the formation of a strategic partnership, Chinese leader Xi Jinping said Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, at the start of a meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad in southern China. (Gianluigi Guercia/Pool via AP, File)

Leaders of Syria and China announce strategic partnership as part of Asian Games diplomacy

By Ken Mortitsugu - Associated Press