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This photo released by the Israel Defense Forces shows what was believed to be a nuclear reactor site that was destroyed by Israel, in the Deir el-Zour region, 450 kilometers (about 300 miles) northwest of Damascus, Syria. The Israeli military confirmed Wednesday that it carried out the 2007 airstrike in Syria that destroyed what was believed to be a nuclear reactor, lifting the veil of secrecy over one of its most daring and mysterious operations in recent memory. (IDF via AP)

Israeli military confirms it hit Syrian nuclear site in 2007

By ARON HELLER - Associated Press

Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army soldiers walk in the city center of Afrin, northwestern Syria, early Sunday, March 18, 2018. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that allied Syrian forces have taken &quot;total&quot; control of the town center of Afrin, the target of a nearly two-month-old Turkish offensive against a Syrian Kurdish militia, which said fighting was still underway. Erdogan said the Turkish flag and the flag of the Syrian opposition fighters have been raised in the town, previously controlled by the Kurdish militia known as the People's Defense Units, or YPG. (Hasan Kırmızitaş/DHA-Depo Photos via AP)

The Latest: 8 Security Council members demand Syria action

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Illustration on Syrian strategic choices by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

America’s goal in Syria must be recalculated

By Jed Babbin

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian civilians with their belongings as they flee from fighting between the Syrian government forces and rebels, near Hamouria in eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Friday, March. 16, 2018. The government offensive has pushed further into eastern Ghouta, chipping away at one of the largest and most significant opposition bastions since the early days of the rebellion, communities where some 400,000 people are estimated to be holed up. (SANA via AP)

The Latest: Syrian troops capture major eastern Ghouta town

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In this March 5, 2018 photo, one-year-old Syrian refugee Eman Zatima is prepared by medical staff for surgery, at a hospital in Amman, Jordan. Eman, who has a heart defect, received a life-saving pro bono surgery from doctors sent by the Vatican's Bambino Gesu Hospital. The infant is one of the few lucky Syrian refugees with severe medical conditions to get the needed treatment. Dozens more are left untreated each month because of funding constraints in overwhelmed refugee host countries in the region. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Syrian refugee baby gets life-saving surgery, others wait

By ALICE SU - Associated Press

US Central Command commander Gen. Jospeh Votel waits to speaks at the Senate Committee on Armed Services on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

US trying to improve Syrian detention of foreign fighters

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

This Sunday, March 11, 2018, photo, provided by Deana Lynn, from Detroit, Michigan, shows her, with her kids and other Syrian children at a shelter where they hide from Russian and Syrian government forces airstrikes, in eastern Ghouta, a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus. Lynn is calling on President Donald Trump to put more pressure on Russia to stop bombing us amid an air and ground assault by government forces that has killed more than 1,000 people over the past three weeks. Lynn and her family are among nearly 400,000 people who are trapped in eastern Ghouta. (Deana Lynn via AP)

Deana Lynn, U.S. woman trapped in Syria’s Ghouta, wants action from Donald Trump

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, speaks during a news conference in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 10, 2018. Mekdad denied opposition charges that government forces used poison gas in their attacks on eastern Ghouta. Mekdad added that insurgents groups in the eastern Ghouta are preparing &quot;to fabricate&quot; more such attacks to blame the Syrian army. (SANA via AP)

The Latest: Syria opposition urges force imposing cease-fire

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This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, speaks during a news conference in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 10, 2018. Mekdad denied opposition charges that government forces used poison gas in their attacks on eastern Ghouta. Mekdad added that insurgents groups in the eastern Ghouta are preparing &quot;to fabricate&quot; more such attacks to blame the Syrian army. (SANA via AP)

Pentagon head warns Syrian forces on use of chemical weapons

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

This photo released by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a member of the Syrian Civil Defense group searching for victims under the rubble of a destroyed building after airstrikes and shelling hit in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, March. 7, 2018. Government forces carried out punishing airstrikes against an opposition-held suburb of Damascus, seeking to divide the besieged enclave in two and further squeeze rebels and tens of thousands of civilians trapped inside, state-run media and opposition activists reported. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

The Latest: UN repeats call for Syria cease-fire

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This photo released Feb. 20, 2018 by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense group working to remove victims from under the rubble of a damaged shelter that was hit in airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. Thousands of Syrians huddle in basements and underground shelters across eastern Ghouta, outside Damascus, hiding from the horror raining down from Syrian army jets that almost never leave the skies. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Reports: Syrian troops split rebel-held enclave near capital

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

This photo release by the Syrian Red Crescent, shows members of the Syrian Red Crescent distributing medicines for civilians in Douma, eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Monday, March. 5, 2018. Desperate for food and medicine, Syrian civilians in the war-ravaged eastern suburbs of Damascus hoped for relief Monday as a 46-truck aid convoy began entering the rebel stronghold, the first such shipment in months. (Syrian Red Crescent via AP)

Russian plane crash in Syria kills 39 servicemen

By ZEINA KARAM and NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

This photo released by the Syrian Red Crescent shows a convoy of vehicles of the Syrian Red Crescent arriving to Douma, eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Monday, March. 5, 2018. Desperate for food and medicine, Syrian civilians in the war-ravaged eastern suburbs of Damascus hoped for relief Monday as a 46-truck aid convoy began entering the rebel stronghold, the first such shipment in months. (Syrian Red Crescent via AP)

The Latest: UN chief urges Syria parties to begin cease-fire

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Coalition: Israel, Myanmar must go on children’s blacklist

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE- In this file photo dated Sunday, 9 March 2014, a Vietnamese air force aircraft AN-26 is seen at a base in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Russia's Defense Ministry says an AN-26 Russian military cargo plane of the same type has crashed in Syria, killing 32 people onboard. (AP Photo/Na Son Nguyen, File)

Russian cargo plane crashes in Syria, 39 dead

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

Syrian family finds new beginning in Connecticut

By KITTY LESHAY - Associated Press

Pentagon: Operations against IS in eastern Syria ‘paused’

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows an injured man sitting inside a Civil Defense van after airstrikes hit near Ghouta, a rebel-held suburb near Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the five-hour pause in eastern Ghouta was preceded by a barrage of airstrikes in the towns of Harasta and Douma, where Syrian troops and allied militia trying to push ahead with a ground offensive on a number of fronts from the east and west clashed with local insurgent groups. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Russia says rebels shell exit corridor in Syria’s Ghouta

By Bassem Mroue and Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

This photo released on Saturday, Feb 24, 2018, by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense group help a wounded man during airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. A new wave of airstrikes and shelling on eastern suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus left at least 22 people dead and more than a dozen wounded Saturday, raising the death toll of a week of bombing in the area to nearly 500, including scores of women and children. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Russia-ordered ‘pause’ goes into effect east of Damascus

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

Members of Syria's 'White Helmet' civil defense force sit on top of a destroyed apartment block in eastern Aleppo, in a still from director Feras Fayyad's 'Last Men in Aleppo.' (Courtesy of Grasshopper Film.)

Fares Fayyad’s ‘Last Men in Aleppo’ Syria documentary up for Academy Award

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times