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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

Hoda Muthana now describes herself as having been brainwashed by the same type of online Islamic State propaganda she later spewed as a jihadi. (Associated Press/File)

Hoda Muthana’s social media messages on MEMRI record

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A woman walks with her children at a U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) screening area after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, in the desert outside Baghouz, Syria, Friday, March 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

IS fighters put up fierce resistance to defend last pocket

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

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 militants, in the desert outside Baghouz, Syria, Friday, March 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

The Latest: Al-Qaida militants in Syria kill IS suspects

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FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2016, file, photo, people gather to take basic food stuffs and other aid from community leaders charged with distributing equitably the supplies to the 64,000-person refugee camp called Rukban on the Jordan-Syria border. The Russian military says the Syrian government is sending convoys to evacuate a refugee camp in southern Syria where tens of thousands suffer from lack of food and medical supplies. Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev said the Syrian convoys are heading on Friday, March 1, 2019 to the Rukban camp and urged the U.S. military in the area to secure its safe passage. (AP Photo, File)

The Latest: Suicide bombing in Syria’s Idlib kills 7

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Italy nabs wanted Algerian foreign fighter back from Syria

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Women and children exit the back of a truck as they arrive to a U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) screening area after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, in the desert outside Baghouz, Syria, Friday, March 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Final assault on last IS-held pocket in Syria resumes

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Lawyer Adrien Masset, representing the Jewish Museum, center, with other lawyers as he attends the trial of Mehdi Nemmouche at the Justice Palace in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. The defense lawyer Thursday is summing up the case for Nemmouche, who is charged with “terrorist murder” over the 2014 slaying of an Israeli couple and two employees at the Jewish museum in Brussels, about a week before the verdict is expected to be handed down.(AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, Pool)

Defense sums up case in Belgium Jewish museum slaying trial

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks to service members at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, in Anchorage, Alaska., during a refueling stop as he returns from Hanoi. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump wrongly says Islamic State holds no land in Syria

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un take a walk after their first meeting at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi hotel, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Activists at CPAC pleased with Trump’s ‘America First’ axiom

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Men sit in the back of a truck as they wait to be screened by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) after being evacuated out of the last territory held by Islamic State militants, in the desert outside Baghouz, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

French militant linked to Paris attack killed in Syria

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

The Latest: French extremist linked to Paris attack killed

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Geir Pedersen, The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, speaks during a Security Council meeting at U.N. headquarters, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

UN envoy wants action on Syria’s missing, new constitution

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, welcomes Syrian President Bashar Assad in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. Syrian state-run media say President Bashar Assad has visited Iran and met with officials there on a rare trip abroad. SANA said Assad met with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani on the trip — the first time he has traveled anywhere other than Russia since the Syrian civil war erupted nearly eight years ago.(Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Syria’s Assad visits Iran in rare trip abroad

By NASSER KARIMI and ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

French president Emmanuel Macron, right, greets Iraqi President Barham Saleh before a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. Saleh is on a two-day visit to France with a focus on the country's security and the fight against the Islamic State group in the region. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Iraq to try IS detainees, including 13 French nationals

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

A U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter stands at a check point near Omar oil field base, eastern Syria, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. An estimated 300 IS militants are besieged in the village of Baghouz, hemmed in by the Euphrates River and the U.S-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led militia spearheading the fight against IS following an intense push since September. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Mass evacuations from Syria’s last IS holdout continue

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a man is treated at a hospital, for injuries he received from a mine explosion, near the central town of Salamiyeh, Syria, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. The land mine left by the Islamic State group struck a van packed with workers in eastern Syria on Sunday, killing more than 20 of them, Syria’s state news agency said. (SANA via AP)

Syrian state news: Mine left by Islamic State group kills 20

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a man is treated at a hospital, for injuries he received from a mine explosion, near the central town of Salamiyeh, Syria, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. The land mine left by the Islamic State group struck a van packed with workers in eastern Syria on Sunday, killing more than 20 of them, Syria’s state news agency said. (SANA via AP)

ISIS land mine kills at least 20 in Syria

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US-backed Syrian forces hand over 150 IS militants to Iraq

By QASSSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019 file photo, U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighters take a break as the fight against Islamic State militants continues in the village of Baghouz, Syria. U.S. and Iraqi officials say IS fighters facing defeat in Syria are slipping across the border into Iraq, where they are destabilizing the country’s fragile security. Hundreds -- likely more than 1,000 -- IS fighters have crossed the open, desert border in the past six months, defying a massive operation by U.S., Kurdish, and allied forces to stamp out the remnants of the jihadi group in eastern Syria. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Told to leave, IS ‘caliphate’ holdouts in Syria stay devoted

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press