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Israel activates missile defense system after Syria rockets

By TIA GOLDENBERG - Associated Press

In this file photo dated Friday, March 30, 2018, a Kurdish security officer escorts Alexanda Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh, who were allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed &quot;The Beatles,&quot; at a security center in Kobani, Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, FILE)

UK silent on US death penalty concerns for alleged jihadis

By GREGORY KATZ and NISHAT AHMED - Associated Press

Russian FM meets Netanyahu in Jerusalem over Syria, Iran

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FILE - In this Wednesday, June 14, 2017, file photo, provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows civil defense workers carrying children after airstrikes hit a school housing a number of displaced people, in the western part of the southern Daraa province of Syria. The Israeli military said Sunday it had rescued members of a Syrian volunteer civil organization, known as White Helmets, from the volatile frontier area and evacuated them to a third country, the first such Israeli intervention in Syria's lengthy civil war. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File)

Syria blasts evacuation of White Helmets as ‘criminal’

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 14, 2017, file photo, provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows a civil defense worker carrying a child after airstrikes hit a school housing a number of displaced people in the western part of the southern Daraa province of Syria. The Israeli military said Sunday it had rescued members of a Syrian volunteer civil organization, known as White Helmets, from the volatile frontier area and evacuated them to a third country, the first such Israeli intervention in Syria's lengthy civil war. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File)

Syrian White Helmets evacuated to Jordan through Israel

By SARAH EL DEEB and ARON HELLER - Associated Press

In this file photo released on Wednesday Feb. 21, 2018, which provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows a member of the Syrian Civil Defense group searching for victims under the rubble of a destroyed house that attacked by Syrian government forces airstrike, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. U.S. officials say the United States is finalizing plans to evacuate several hundred Syrian civil defense workers and their families from southwest Syria as Russian-backed government forces close in on the area. U.S., Britain and Canada are spearheading the evacuation that would transport members of the White Helmets group to transit camps in neighboring countries. From there, they will be sent to countries in Europe and possibly Canada. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

U.S., allies set to evacuate Syrian aid workers from southwest

By Matthew Lee and Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

In this photo released Tuesday, July 17, 2018, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian troops flash the victory sign next to the Syrian flag in Tell al-Haara, the highest hill in the southwestern Daraa province, Syria. The government has regained control of the town in an offensive, backed by Russian air power. The forces have stepped up their military offensive on the remaining opposition pockets in the southwestern region that includes Daraa and Quneitra provinces that straddle the border with Jordan and the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. (SANA via AP)

Syria: Rebels give up positions near Golan Heights

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Smoke and debris rise after the Syrian government's shelling of the rebel-held Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Sept 25, 2017. (Ghouta Media Center, via AP) ** FILE **

Ibraheem Musaibli, Michigan man, detained in Syria over suspected ISIS ties

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Capt. Philip Gunn participates in a flyover during the interment ceremony of retired Brig. Gen. Robinson Risner on Jan. 23, 2014, at Arlington National Cemetery. (Image: Air Force) ** FILE **

Pentagon says it’s unaware of any U.S.-Russia military agreement in Syria

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, July 17, 2018, photo, Col. Omar Melhem, 51, who defected from the Syrian army defector and once commanded a rebel faction of some 3,000 fighters speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the central Syrian town of Talbiseh, Homs province, Syria. As the Syrian government reasserts control over opposition strongholds, co-existence between the military and former rebel fighters who surrendered is the new reality. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Under Assad’s grip, uneasy co-existence with Syria ex-rebels

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this file photo released on Wednesday Feb. 21, 2018, which provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows a member of the Syrian Civil Defense group searching for victims under the rubble of a destroyed house that attacked by Syrian government forces airstrike, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. U.S. officials say the United States is finalizing plans to evacuate several hundred Syrian civil defense workers and their families from southwest Syria as Russian-backed government forces close in on the area. U.S., Britain and Canada are spearheading the evacuation that would transport members of the White Helmets group to transit camps in neighboring countries. From there, they will be sent to countries in Europe and possibly Canada. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

US, allies set to evacuate Syrian aid workers from southwest

By MATTHEW LEE and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2016 file photo, U.S. Central Command Command Commander, U.S. Army Gen. Joseph Votel, speaks to reporters at the Pentagon. Votel said on Thursday that he has received no new guidance from the Pentagon on cooperating with Russia in Syria and that he is taking a &quot;steady-as-she-goes&quot; approach. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Votel: No new direction on Syria after Trump-Putin talks

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Syria Strategy Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

America, Russia and Israel are in sync about objectives in the aftermath of the Syrian civil war

By Abraham R. Wagner

A Syrian soldier stands guard at his post overlooking the Damascus-Aleppo highway in the central Syrian town of Rastan, Homs province, Syria, Tuesday, July 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Intense government bombing of south Syria opposition holdout

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hand with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the end of the press conference after their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russian military offers to cooperate with US in Syria

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a press conference after their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The Latest: Comey urges voters to support Democrats in fall

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The Pentagon vehemently denies that the White House exerted any political pressure throughout the process for awarding the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, which ultimately went to Microsoft. (Associated Press/File)

Moscow to press U.S. on cooperation in Syria, says Russian military

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, July 15, 2018 photo, a Syrian soldier stands guard at a checkpoint, in the eastern Ghouta region, near the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria. Arabic on the barrels reads, &quot;Crown of the Arab Bashar&quot;, left, and &quot; Assad's Syria&quot;. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Syrian government, rebels clash over recon base near Israel

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a press conference after the meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Vladimir Putin, Russia can’t be trusted on Israel security pledge, analysts warn Donald Trump

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Report: Syria blames Israel for strikes in north

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