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The Latest: Peace activist behind Kucinich fee met Hamas

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Ohio governor’s race feud grows over Kucinich’s Syria work

By JULIE CARR SMYTH - Associated Press

Fragments of US &quot;tomahawk&quot; cruise missiles captured by Syrian forces in a recent attack, are displayed at a briefing in the Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 25, 2018. The Russian military has indicated it will supply the Syrian government with a sophisticated air defense system, after condemning a missile attack launched by the U.S., Britain and France earlier this month. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Chemical weapons team gathers more samples from Syrian town

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron stand together at the beginning of the State Arrival Ceremony at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

The Latest: Trump softens tone on Syria withdrawal

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Eizenkot

Gen. Joseph L. Votel makes unusual visit to Israel

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

This Monday, April 23, 2018 photo, Syrian refugee children play outside their family tents at a Syrian refugee camp in the town of Bar Elias, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. A leading international rights group and the U.N.'s refugee agency say Lebanese authorities have been evicting Syrian refugees from towns and camps in Lebanon without any legal basis. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Seeking aid abroad, Lebanon uproots Syrian refugees

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 24, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump backtracks on Syria after talks with French leader

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., the sole Republican who had earlier opposed President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, tells the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he is changing his vote to yes, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 23, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rand Paul: U.S. should not be responsible to ‘keep the peace’ across the world

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron pose for a photo in front of Mount Vernon, the home of President George Washington, in Mount Vernon, Va., Monday, April 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Trump, Macron make a show as best buds but tussle over Iran

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian government forces overseeing the evacuation by bus of rebels and their family from the towns of Ruhaiba in the eastern Qalamoun region in the Damascus countryside, Syria, Saturday, April 21, 2018. Syrian state media says several buses have left the towns of Ruhaiba, Jayroud, and al-Nasriya carrying hundreds of rebels and their families to opposition territory in north Syria. (SANA via AP)

Chemical weapons inspectors collect samples from Syria site

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

The Latest: OPCW team visits Douma to probe chemical attack

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Syria Strike Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

U.S. strikes on Syria prove Trump is no Mr. Nice Guy

By Donald Lambro

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Russian soldiers and Syrian government forces overseeing the evacuation of rebel fighters from the Army of Islam and their families from the town of Dumayr, northeast of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, April 19, 2018. Syrian state media said Thursday that hundreds of rebel fighters in Dumayr, have handed in their weapons and started to leave the area under an evacuation deal moving them to opposition-held areas in the north, effectively surrendering their turf to government forces. (SANA via AP)

The Latest: France demands access for chemical inspectors

Associated Press

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, a C-17 Globemaster III, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, conducts combat airlift operations for U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq and Syria on April 13, 2018. The drama of U.S. and allied missiles strikes on Syria has obscured the fact that the U.S.-led campaign to eliminate the Islamic State from Syria has stalled. This is an illustration of the many-layered complexities of the Syrian conflict. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech. Sgt Gregory Brook)

After Syria missile strikes, US stuck in holding pattern

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Iran’s defense minister visits Iraq to promote security ties

Associated Press

Syrians sit in front a shop with a shutter painted like the national flag, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, April 17, 2018. International inspectors have entered the Syrian town where an alleged chemical attack was carried out earlier this month, Syrian state media reported Tuesday, after they had waited for days in the capital for permission from Syrian and Russian authorities. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

The Latest: UN says more security needed at Douma site

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Douma chemical attack puts OPCW back in spotlight

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A girl shops at a kiosk in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, April 17, 2018. The Arabic on the right reads, &quot;Regards Assad, God protect you Assad.&quot; (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

UN team fired on at suspected Syria chemical attack site

By PHILIP ISSA and MICHAEL CORDER - Associated Press

Syrians walk through destruction in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 16, 2018. Faisal Mekdad, Syria's deputy foreign minister, said on Monday that his country is &quot;fully ready&quot; to cooperate with the fact-finding mission from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that's in Syria to investigate the alleged chemical attack that triggered U.S.-led airstrikes. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

The Latest: Russia clashes again with US, allies over Syria

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Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, questions Attorney General Jeff Sessions during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Mike Lee pushes back against Trump administration’s claim it had authority for airstrikes

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times