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In this Thursday, May 30, 2019, file photo, Ajmal Omar a member of the Nangarhar provincial council speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Islamic State expands reach in Afghanistan, threatening West

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

This photo posted May 28, 2019, and provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian White Helmet civil defense workers trying to extinguish fire following an airstrike by Syrian government forces that targeted a health facility in the town of Kfar Nubul, southern Idlib, Syria. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File)

Syria uses familiar tactic in rebel Idlib: Bombing civilians

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, March 1, 2019 file photo, a woman is frisked by a U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter at a screening area after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State group militants, in the desert outside Baghouz, Syria. A Kurdish official in northern Syria on Wednesday, June 5, 2019, says local authorities there have transferred eight American women and children who were captured with the Islamic State group back to the United States. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Syrian Kurds send 8 American IS women, children back to US

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Armenia sends more mine-clearing experts, doctors to Syria

Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2019 file photo, provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows smoke rising after Syrian government and Russian airstrikes that hit the town of al-Habeet, southern Idlib, Syria. The violence raging once again in the northwestern province of Idlib, Syria's last rebel-held bastion, is putting Turkish-Russian relations to the test. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File)

Russia halts UN Security Council statement on Syria’s Idlib

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, March 31, 2019, file photo, women line up for aid supplies at Al-Hol camp in Hassakeh province, Syria. A local official and witnesses in northeastern Syria said Monday, June 3, 2019 hundreds of Syrian women and children related to fighters from the Islamic State group are leaving an overcrowded camp in the country's north to return to their homes.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Hundreds of IS relatives leave camp in northeast Syria

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Israeli military says 2 rockets fired at Israel from Syria

Associated Press

Israel attacks Syrian base hours after hitting other targets

Associated Press

Raed Alsaleh, chairman of the Syrian Civil Defense volunteer rescue group, (White Helmets) talks during a media conference in Istanbul, Friday, May 31, 2019. The group and an alliance of non-governmental organisations have gathered in Istanbul to call attention to an escalation of violence in Idlib province in northwestern Syria. Salah said a catastrophic humanitarian crisis is imminent and the Syrian NGO Alliance appealed to the United Nations Security Council to stop the escalation. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Turkey, Russia face conflicts over Syria’s push into Idlib

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

This Tuesday, May 28, 2019 photo, provided by the community service group, Together for Jarniyah, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrians working to extinguish a fire in a field of crops, in Jaabar, Raqqa province, Syria. Crop fires in parts of Syria and Iraq have been blamed on defeated Islamic State group militants in the east seeking to avenge the group’s losses, and on Syrian government forces in the west battling to rout other armed groups there. (Together for Jarniyah via AP)

Crop fires, a weapon of war, ruin Iraqi, Syrian harvests

By SALAR SALIM AND SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Civil Defense workers inspecting a damaged building after an airstrike by Syrian government forces, in the town of Ariha, in the northwestern province of Idlib, Syria, Monday, May 27, 2019. Syria's White Helmets say at least six people were killed and 10 remain under rubble following government air raids on a town in the rebel's last stronghold. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

UN warns more Idlib military action will overwhelm aid needs

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Syria, Israel exchange fire amid regional tension, 1 killed

Associated Press

FILE - in this May 23, 2018 file photo, security guards stand outside the building where Islamic State militants are tried in a special counterterrorism court in Baghdad, Iraq. A Baghdad court sentenced to death three French citizens Sunday for being members of the Islamic State group, an Iraqi judicial official said. The official said the three were among 12 French citizens handed over to Iraq in January by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces. Then SDF has handed over to Iraq hundreds of suspected IS members in recent months. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Iraqi court sentences 3 French members of IS to death

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Italian hostage freed after 3 years in Syria returns home

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In this Monday, April 16, 2018, file photo, people stand in front of damaged buildings, in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) ** FILE **

U.S. Syria envoy ‘cannot confirm’ latest claim of chemical weapons in Syria

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

IS claims bomb attack targeting US-backed force in Syria

Associated Press

UN aid chief fears northwest Syria ‘humanitarian nightmare’

Associated Press

This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense workers carrying a victim after a deadly airstrike hit a market killing several people in the village of Ras el-Ain, in the northwestern province of Idlib, Syria, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. Opposition activists say government forces have intensified their bombardment of rebel-held towns and villages in northwestern Syria. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Aid groups say conditions in northwest Syria at crisis point

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Iraqi airline set to resume flights to Syrian capital

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7 kids of Nordic IS couple killed in Syria return to Sweden

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