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Cheney criticized Trump foreign policy in closed-door event

By ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

Tracer fire and explosions lights up the night sky as U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fire on Baghouz, Syria, Sunday, March 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

U.S.-backed fighters make limited advances against ISIS in Syria

By Philip Issa - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, March 6, 2019, photo, women and children stand in line at a reception area for people evacuated from the last shred of territory held by Islamic State militants, outside Baghouz, Syria. (AP Photo/Gabriel Chaim)

US-backed Syrian fighters resume attack on Islamic State

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

The Latest: US-backed Syrian fighters to resume attack on IS

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FILE - This undated photo released by the Metropolitan Police of London, shows Shamima Begum, a young British woman who went to Syria to join the Islamic State group and now wants to return to Britain. During an interview, Tuesday, March 5, 2019, in Sunamganu, Bangladesh, Begum's father, Ahmed Ali, said his daughter’s citizenship should not be canceled and that she could be punished in the United Kingdom if it was determined she had committed a crime. (Metropolitan Police of London via AP, File)

UK studying how to get children of IS followers out of Syria

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In this Wednesday, March 6, 2019, photo, a woman carries supplies from a reception area for people evacuated from the last shred of territory held by Islamic State militants, outside Baghouz, Syria. (AP Photo/Gabriel Chaim)

US-backed fighters could soon resume offensive against IS

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, March 6, 2019, photo, a member of U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stands guard at a reception area for people evacuated from the last shred of territory held by Islamic State militants, outside Baghouz, Syria. (AP Photo/Gabriel Chaim)

Abandoned tents, foxholes left behind by IS in Syria

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE - This undated photo released by the Metropolitan Police of London, shows Shamima Begum, a young British woman who went to Syria to join the Islamic State group and now wants to return to Britain. During an interview, Tuesday, March 5, 2019, in Sunamganu, Bangladesh, Begum's father, Ahmed Ali, said his daughter’s citizenship should not be canceled and that she could be punished in the United Kingdom if it was determined she had committed a crime. (Metropolitan Police of London via AP, File)

Official: Baby of British IS bride dies in Syria

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In this Wednesday, March 6, 2019, photo, men pray at a reception area for people evacuated from the last shred of territory held by Islamic State militants, outside Baghouz, Syria. (AP Photo/Gabriel Chaim)

Heads bowed to the ground, suspected IS members surrender

By ANDREA ROSA - Associated Press

Women and and children gather near trucks after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants outside Baghouz, Syria, Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Since Friday, IS has put up desperate resistance to renewed pounding by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces aiming to take the tiny pocket on the Euphrates River near the Iraqi border.(AP Photo/Andrea Rosa)

Lawyers seek ICC probe into Syria deportations to Jordan

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. Joseph Votel testifies before the House Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Gen. Joseph Votel: Islamic State ‘caliphate’ now less that a square mile in Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

An armoured police vehicle and barbed wire fence block the way outside the Justice Palace during the trial of Mehdi Nemmouche in Brussels, Thursday, March 7, 2019. Nemmouche is charged with four counts of &quot;terrorist murder&quot; over the killing of an Israeli couple and two staffers at the Brussels Jewish Museum. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Belgian court finds Nemmouche guilty of Jewish museum attack

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

An armoured police vehicle and barbed wire fence block the way outside the Justice Palace during the trial of Mehdi Nemmouche in Brussels, Thursday, March 7, 2019. Nemmouche is charged with four counts of &quot;terrorist murder&quot; over the killing of an Israeli couple and two staffers at the Brussels Jewish Museum. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

The Latest: Guilty verdict in Belgian Jewish museum killings

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In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, file photo, U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters stand guard next to men waiting to be screened after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State group militants, near Baghouz, eastern Syria. Even as they face imminent defeat, militants of the IS have remained organized and ruthless to their last breath, keeping their institutions functioning as best they can. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

To the bitter end, ISIS militants remain organized and brutal

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

A woman and her children, who were evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State sit outside Baghouz, Syria, Tuesday, March 5, 2019. The latest wave of evacuations brings the final defeat of IS by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces one step closer — a milestone in the devastating four-year campaign to defeat the group’s so-called “caliphate” that once covered a vast territory straddling both Syria and Iraq.(AP Photo/Andrea Rosa)

The Latest: Russia, Syria urge US to let refugees leave camp

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In this image made from video taken Tuesday, March 5, 2019, Ahmed Ali, the father of a British teenager Shamima Begum who ran away to join the Islamic State group in Syria, speaks during an interview Tuesday from his village of Sunamganu, 181 kilometers (112 miles) northeast of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Ali, 60, said his daughter’s citizenship should not be canceled and that she could be punished in the United Kingdom if it was determined she had committed a crime. (AP Photo)

Father of UK teen who joined IS says don’t scrap citizenship

By SHAMS SHAMIM and JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

A member of U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) watches a wounded man climb off of a truck after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, outside Baghouz, Syria, Monday, March 4, 2019. Hundreds of people including IS fighters evacuated their last foothold in eastern Syria hours after U.S.-backed Syrian fighters said they were forced to slow their advance because the extremists are using civilians as human shields.(AP Photo/Andrea Rosa)

Prominent French jihadis killed in IS-held area in Syria

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

A member of U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) watches a wounded man climb off of a truck after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, outside Baghouz, Syria, Monday, March 4, 2019. Hundreds of people including IS fighters evacuated their last foothold in eastern Syria hours after U.S.-backed Syrian fighters said they were forced to slow their advance because the extremists are using civilians as human shields.(AP Photo/Andrea Rosa)

The Latest: Russia accuses US of holding Syrian refugees

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Columns of black smoke billow from the last small piece of territory held by Islamic State militants as U.S. backed fighters pounded the area with artillery fire and occasional airstrikes in Baghouz, Syria, Sunday, March 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrea Rosa)

Hundreds leave IS-held area in Syria as fighting slows down

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Columns of black smoke billow from the last small piece of territory held by Islamic State militants as U.S. backed fighters pounded the area with artillery fire and occasional airstrikes in Baghouz, Syria, Sunday, March 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrea Rosa)

The Latest: Red Cross warns of crisis at Syrian camp

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