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French court rejects call to return its Syria-based citizens

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In this Sunday, March 31, 2019, photo, women speak to guards at the gate that closes off the section for foreign families who lived in the Islamic State's so-called caliphate, at Al-Hol camp in Hassakeh province, Syria. Al-Hol camp is home to 73,000 people who streamed out of the Islamic State group’s last pockets, including the village of Baghouz, the final site to fall to the SDF in March. Nearly the entire population of the camp is women or children, since most men were taken for screening by the SDF to determine if they were fighters. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

In camp of diehard IS supporters, some women express regrets

By MAYA ALLERUZZO and PHILIP ISSA and ANDREA ROSA - Associated Press

In this Sunday, March 31, 2019, photo, women line up for aid supplies at Al-Hol camp in Hassakeh province, Syria. The camp is past full capacity, with more than 70,000 residents from former Islamic State-held areas in Syria. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

After IS fall, some women who joined plead to come home

By MAYA ALLERUZZO and PHILIP ISSA and ANDREA ROSA - Associated Press

While Nadia Murad Basee Taha, right, listens, Amal Clooney speaks during a Security Council meeting on sexual violence at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, April 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Amal Clooney: Prosecute Islamic State extremists for rape

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Hajdar Selimovic calls to his nephew Ismail behind a fence at a detention center where authorities have brought back from Syria 110 Kosovar citizens, mostly women and children in the village of Vranidol on Sunday, April 20, 2019. Four suspected fighters have been arrested, but other returnees will be cared for, before being sent to homes over the coming days, according to Justice Minister Abelard Tahiri.(AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovar returnees from Syria eager to leave shelter, go home

By SYLEJMAN KLLOKOQI - Associated Press

Iraq summit brings together rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran

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Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard slammed President Trump on Wednesday for vetoing a congressional resolution calling for an end to U.S. assistance for a Saudi-led coalition intervening in the civil war in Yemen. (Associated Press)

Tulsi Gabbard zigs when Democratic contenders zag on campaign issues

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Australia PM: Islamic State orphans face hurdles to return

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

This undated photo released by International Committee of the Red Cross, the organization's New Zealand nurse Louisa Akavi. New Zealand's foreign minister has confirmed the nurse has been held captive by the Islamic State group in Syria for almost six years, information long kept secret for fear her life might be at risk. The status of nurse and midwife Akavi, now 62, is unknown but her employer, the International Committee of the Red Cross, says it has received recent eyewitness reports suggesting she might be alive. (International Committee of the Red Cross via AP)

Red Cross, New Zealand hope for info on Louisa Akavi, nurse held in Syria

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Syria says Israeli airstrike on military position wounds 6

By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA on Dec. 16, 2018, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Sudan's President Omar Bashir in Damascus, Syria. Assad is the last man standing among a crop of Arab dictators after the fall of the Sudanese and Algerian leaders. He's survived an 8-year war to topple him and an Islamic caliphate over part of his broken country. But Bashar Assad's path is strewn with difficulties and the war for Syria is far from over. (SANA via AP, File)

Syria’s Assad: Last man standing amid new Arab uprisings

By ZEINA KARAM and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, April 9, 2019 photo, a giant poster that shows the late Egyptian leader Gamal Abdul-Nasser, near the barbed wire that separates Lebanon and Israeli-occupied Chebaa farms, southeast Lebanon. U.S. President Donald Trump's move to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights has caused concern in Lebanon over its claim to the disputed Chebaa Farms and adjacent Kfar Chouba hills, which Israel occupied alongside the Golan in 1967. The Arabic words read:&quot;What was taken by force and only be regained by force.&quot; (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Trump’s Golan move causes concern in Lebanon for land owners

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

More charges for Detroit-area man accused of fighting for IS

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President Donald Trump holds up a chart documenting ISIS land loss in Iraq and Syria as delivers remarks at the Lima Army Tank Plant, Wednesday, March 20, 2019, in Lima, Ohio. In a campaign that spanned five years and two U.S. presidencies, the American military engineered the destruction of the Islamic State group’s self-proclaimed empire in Iraq and Syria. That’s a military success, but not one that’s certain to last. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Pentagon nears ‘Defeat ISIS’ coalition extension as Trump weighs Syria withdrawal

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE-- In this Sept. 24, 2017 file photo, surface-to-surface missiles and a portrait of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are displayed by the Revolutionary Guard in an exhibition marking the anniversary of outset of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran. On Monday, April 8, 2019, the Trump administration designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a “foreign terrorist organization” in an unprecedented move against a national armed force. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps went from being a domestic security force with origins in the 1979 Islamic Revolution to a transnational fighting force. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

AP Explains: Long reach of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

By AYA BATRAWY and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this Feb. 11, 2019 file photo, Iranian Revolutionary Guard members attend a ceremony celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, at the Azadi, or Freedom, Square in Tehran, Iran. On Monday, April 8, 2019, the Trump administration designated Irans Revolutionary Guard a foreign terrorist organization in an unprecedented move against a national armed force. Irans Revolutionary Guard Corps went from being a domestic security force with origins in the 1979 Islamic Revolution to a transnational fighting force. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran retaliates after revolutionary guard terror designation

By Lauren Toms, Lauren Meier and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2019 file photo, Men, foreground, women and children wait to be screened by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, near Baghouz, eastern Syria. The U.S.-led coalition says it has supported its Kurdish-led Syrian allies during an &quot;incident&quot; in a prison in northeastern Syria where Islamic State militants attempted to escape. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

US-led coalition says allies foil Islamic State prison break

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UK, US, and France warn Syria not to use chemical weapons

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Kosovo man charged with inciting terror acts

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talk during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, April 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Putin says Russia helped locate Israeli soldier’s remains

By Associated Press - Associated Press