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In this Thursday, March 29, 2018 file photo, U.S. soldiers, left, sit in a house turned into an outpost on a road leading to the tense front line between U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council fighters and Turkish-backed fighters, at Halawanji village, north of Manbij town, Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File) **FILE**

White House says U.S. still committed to destroying Islamic State forces in Syria

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian government forces overseeing the evacuation of Army of Islam fighters and their families in buses, from the besieged town of Douma, just east of Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 2, 2018. The most powerful Syrian rebel faction on the fringes of Damascus began abandoning its stronghold in the once rebel-held enclave of eastern Ghouta on Monday, opening the way for government forces to secure full control of the area, after seven years of revolt. (SANA via AP)

The Latest: US forces setting up positions in north Syria

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin, center left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, center, arrive for a meeting with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. The leaders of Russia, Iran and Turkey are meeting in the Turkish capital for talks on Syria's future. The leaders are expected to reaffirm their commitment to Syria's territorial integrity and the continuation of local cease-fires when they meet Wednesday. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Erdogan: Turkey to keep pushing Kurds out of Syria’s north

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid, and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 3, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

The Latest: US says its military mission in Syria nears end

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President Donald Trump's pick for national security adviser John Bolton, left, walks up the steps with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, as Bolton arrives at the Pentagon, Thursday, March 29, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, Syria would send ‘frightening’ message to Middle East, say diplomats

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid, and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 3, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump to decide ‘very quickly’ on US pullout from Syria

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

A vehicle of U.S. troops passes on a street, in Manbij town, north Syria, Saturday, March 31, 2018. President Donald Trump's unscripted public declaration this week about pulling out of Syria "very soon" while at odds with his own policy are unnerving for the Kurds in this context. U.S. troops first deployed in the area about 16 months ago, after Turkish-backed Syrian forces advanced on areas near Manbij, in a race for control of territories as IS militants collapsed. The deployment prevented repeated clashes between the two rival forces. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ** FILE **

Donald Trump says ‘it’s time’ to pull U.S. troops out of Syria

By Dave Boyer and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in full military combat uniform, waves from a helicopter as he visits Turkish troops at Ogulpinar border gate with Syria, near Reyhanli, Hatay, Turkey, Sunday, April 1 2018. (Kayhan Ozer/Pool Photo via AP)

Turkey, Russia deepen ties amid troubled relations with West

By WIETING Suzan Fraser and Ayse Wieting - Associated Press

Turkish soldiers atop an armored personnel carrier patrol the northwestern city of Afrin, Syria, during a Turkish government-organized media tour into northern Syria, Saturday, March 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) ** FILE **

Donald Trump’s withdrawal from Syria has Manbij fearing Turkey’s offensive

By Filip Warwick and Jacob Wirtschafter — Special to The Washington Times

"This is the Obama playbook: One foot in, one foot out. This is a disaster in the making," Sen. Lindsey Graham said, adding that military successes against the Islamic State could quickly be reversed with no U.S. presence. (Associated Press)

Lindsey Graham says Trump pulling troops from Syria would be ‘single worst decision’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Members of the Kurdish internal security forces, right, pass next of damaged shops, at the scene where an explosion on Thursday hit a U.S.-led coalition vehicles, killing an American and a Briton soldiers, in Manbij town, north Syria, Saturday, March 31, 2018. The explosion on Thursday was the first to hit members of the U.S.-led coalition who have deployed to Manbij months after the town was liberated from Islamic State militants in 2016. An improvised explosive device went off during an operation against a known member of the Islamic State group in this mixed Arab and Kurdish town, the U.S-led Coalition said in a statement Saturday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Soldier killed in Syria identified as 36-year-old from Texas

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump walks down the stairs of Air Force One during his arrival at Palm Beach International Airport, in West Palm Beach, Fla.,Thursday, March 29, 2018. Trump is spending the weekend at his his Mar-a-Lago estate. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump’s talk of a Syria pullout nothing new

By MATTHEW LEE and JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, delivers a speech at his ruling Justice and Development (AKP) Party conference in Ankara, Friday, March 30, 2018. Erdogan has responded angrily at France for suggesting that it could help establish a dialogue between Turkey and a Syrian group that is dominated by Kurdish fighters that Ankara considers to be terrorists. (Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Pool Photo via AP)

The Latest: Blast in Syria kills member of UK armed forces

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Alexanda Amon 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; speak during an interview with The Associated Press at a security center in Kobani, Syria, Friday, March 30, 2018. The men said that their home country’s revoking of their citizenship denies them fair trial. “The Beatles” terror cell is believed to have captured, tortured and killed hostages including American, British and Japanese journalists and aid workers. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

2 notorious British IS members say fair trial is impossible

By SARAH EL DEEB and ANDREA ROSA - Associated Press

A Kurdish security officer, background, escorts Alexanda Amon Kotey, right, 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, Friday, March 30, 2018. The men said that their home country’s revoking of their citizenship denies them fair trial. “The Beatles” terror cell is believed to have captured, tortured and killed hostages including American, British and Japanese journalists and aid workers. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Bombing kills U.S., British troops in Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump walks down the stairs of Air Force One during his arrival at Palm Beach International Airport, in West Palm Beach, Fla.,Thursday, March 29, 2018. Trump is spending the weekend at his his Mar-a-Lago estate. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

In private, Trump has mused about Syria pullout for weeks

By MATTHEW LEE and JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian government forces oversee the evacuation by buses of rebel fighters and their families, at a checkpoint in eastern Gouta, Syria, Thursday March, 22, 2108. Syrian rebels and their families were leaving in an evacuation deal that will see the town handed over to the government following years of siege. (SANA via AP)

Syrian rebels to leave key town in eastern Ghouta enclave

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

In this file photo, Col. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the military's General Staff speaks during a briefing with a big screen showing Syrian refugees crossing a checkpoint in an area known as eastern Ghouta, in the Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, March 17, 2018. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov is on the left. The head of Russia's military general staff is claiming that American instructors are training groups of Syrian rebels to carry out chemical weapons attacks, he also said at a briefing Saturday that Russia is concerned about signs that U.S. forces could be preparing missile attacks on Syria. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov) **FILE**

U.S. designates Joe Asperman, French national, as ISIS chemical-weapons expert

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

US slaps sanctions on French chemical weapons expert for IS

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Illustration on the strategic importance of supporting the Kurds by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Why America must help the Kurds in Syria

By Rachel Avraham