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Spanish U.N peacekeepers patrol the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said Monday that Israel's air force attacked a Palestinian base in the country's east near the border with Syria. Lebanese President Michel Aoun told the U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jan Kubis, that the attacks violate a U.N. Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Lebanon: Israeli air force hits Palestinian base in Lebanon

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Israeli forces patrol near the area of an attack, west of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Aug. 25. 2019. An explosion Friday near a West Bank settlement that Israel said was a Palestinian attack killed a 17-year-old Israeli girl and wounded her brother and father, Israeli authorities said. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli PM cuts Gaza fuel transfers amid flurry of threats

By ARON HELLER - Associated Press

In this July 31, 2019 photo, Hussam Alhallak, left, sons Danyal, held by his father, and Muhammad, wife Hazar Mansour and daughter Layan, right, stand at the site of their new home being built by Habitat for Humanity of Rutland County in Rutland, Vt. The family fled the war in Syria and are making a life for themselves in Vermont. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

In a divided US community, Syrian refugee family settles in

By LISA RATHKE - Associated Press

This photo released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Aug. 8, 2019, shows Iranian-made smart bombs during an unveiling ceremony, Iran. The semi-official ILNA news agency quoted Iranian Gen. Mohsen Rezaei on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019, as denying claims by the Israeli military that it thwarted an imminent Iranian drone attack on Israel, calling that a &quot;lie.&quot; (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Drone war takes flight, raising stakes in Iran, US tensions

By JON GAMBRELL and JOSEF FEDERMAN and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

In this handout photo taken from the Twitter account of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, shows French President Emmanuel Macron, right, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian, second right, meeting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left in white shirt, Sunday, Aug.25, 2019 in Biarritz, southwestern France. Zarif paid an unannounced visit Sunday to the G-7 summit and headed straight to the buildings where leaders of the world's major democracies have been debating how to handle the country's nuclear ambitions. (Twitter account of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif via AP)

Javad Zarif G-7 appearance shows U.S., European divisions on Iranian nuclear ambitions

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

This photo released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Aug. 8, 2019, shows Iranian-made smart bombs during an unveiling ceremony, Iran. The semi-official ILNA news agency quoted Iranian Gen. Mohsen Rezaei on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019, as denying claims by the Israeli military that it thwarted an imminent Iranian drone attack on Israel, calling that a "lie." (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Israel thwarts Iranian ‘killer drone’ attack

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Israel says it thwarts imminent Iranian attack from Syria

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

A Syrian soldier stands on a tank waving a national flag in the northwestern town of Khan Sheikhoun, Syria, on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019. The town was captured by Syrian troops this week after a monthslong offensive. (AP Photo/Albert Aji)

Syrian troops surround Turkish post in country’s northwest

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

Austria prepares to repatriate IS supporter’s children

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This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, shows a Civil Defense worker searching for victims from under the rubble of a destroyed building that was hit by airstrikes in the northern town of Maaret al-Numan, in Idlib province, Syria, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. Syrian warplanes carried out airstrikes on towns and villages north of Khan Sheikhoun, including the town of Maaret al-Numan, according to opposition activists. Maaret al-Numan, like Khan Sheikhoun sits on the highway linking Damascus with the northern city of Aleppo, Syria's largest. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Syria retakes territory in NW held by rebels since 2012

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019, a man walks near Fatih mosque in Istanbul. Syrians say Turkey has been detaining and forcing some Syrian refugees to return back to their country the past month. The expulsions reflect increasing anti-refugee sentiment in Turkey, which opened its doors to millions of Syrians fleeing their country's civil war. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

As warm welcome chills, Turkey clamps down on Syrians

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press availability with Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Mike Pompeo: ISIS ‘more powerful today’ in some areas of the world despite losing Syria caliphate

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This photo provided by the activist-operated Thiqa News Agency, shows part of a Turkish military convoy heading toward the town of Khan Sheikhoun, a rebel-held northwestern town that's part of a government offensive on the country's last rebel stronghold, in Idlib province, Syria, Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. A Turkish military convoy carrying ammunition crossed into northern Syria Monday and moved south through rebel-held areas before it was stopped by airstrikes that struck near the highway where the convoy was moving, opposition activists said. (Thiqa News Agency via AP)

Militants leave key rebel town as Syrian troops push in

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Smoke rises in the background from bombardment around the area as fighters with the Free Syrian army drive their pick-up truck, left, past a Turkey Armed Forces convoy, at a highway between Maaret al-Numan and Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province, Syria, Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. The Turkish Defense Ministry says airstrikes have targeted a Turkish military convoy in Syria, killing at least three civilians and wounding 12 others in Monday's attack that occurred while the convoy was heading toward a Turkish observation post in the rebel-held stronghold of Idlib. (Murat Kibritoglu/DHA via AP)

Airstrikes target Turkish convoy in Syria, raising tensions

By ALBERT AJI and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

This photo provided by the activist-operated Thiqa News Agency, shows a Turkish military convoy heading toward the town of Khan Sheikhoun, in Idlib province, Syria, Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. The Turkish military convoy carrying ammunition crossed into northern Syria Monday and moved south through rebel-held areas before it was stopped by airstrikes that struck near the highway where the convoy was moving, opposition activists said. (Thiqa News Agency via AP)

The Latest: Turkey says its army convoy targeted in Syria

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FILE - In this file photo dated Friday, June 28, 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose for a photo during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. Macron has invited Putin to his summer residency on the French Riviera, Monday afternoon Aug. 19, 2019, for talks and dinner, in an effort to improve Moscow’s relations with the European Union. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin FILE Pool Photo via AP)

Putin, Macron hold French-Russian talks before G-7

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

4 German children born to IS to return home from Syria

Associated Press

Canada ‘disappointed’ by British decision on Jihadi Jack

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Airstrike in Syria rebel area kills 13, including children

Associated Press

A stern view of the Grace 1 super tanker in the British territory of Gibraltar, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, seized last month in a British Royal Navy operation off Gibraltar. The United States moved on Thursday to halt the release of the Iranian supertanker Grace 1, detained in Gibraltar for breaching EU sanctions on oil shipments to Syria, thwarting efforts by authorities in London and the British overseas territory to defuse tensions with Tehran. (AP Photo/Marcos Moreno)

Despite U.S. plea, Gibraltar releases seized Iranian tanker

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times