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French President Emmanuel Macron attends a news conference with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Tuesday Dec. 19, 2017. (Philippe Wojazer, Pool via AP)

Macron slams Assad for comments on France supporting terror

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

Oklahoma high court reverses itself in Syrian torture case

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Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the troops at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria, on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. Declaring a victory in Syria, Putin on Monday visited a Russian military air base in the country and announced a partial pullout of Russian forces from the Mideast nation. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Under Putin, Russia increases clout in the Middle East

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, left, is welcomed by France's President Emmanuel Macron for conference to support the fight against Jihadist in the African Sahel region at the Chateau of the La Celle Saint-Cloud, west of Paris, France, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. Presidents, princes and diplomats are in France to breathe life into a young African military force that aims to counter the growing Jihad threat in the Sahel region. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

The Latest: Mali warns IS fighters could come to Africa

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017 file photo, visitors and Russian military police officers walk toward the Citadel, Aleppo's famed fortress. Russian news outlets say thousands of Russians have been deployed in Syria by a shadowy, private military contractor since 2015. When President Vladimir Putin announced Monday Dec. 11, 2017, that Russia’s campaign in Syria was drawing to a close, he did not mention this secret force. (AP Photo/Nataliya Vasilyeva, File)

Thousands of Russian private contractors fighting in Syria

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA - Associated Press

Russia's President Vladimir Putin, listens during a joint news statement with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, following their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. The two men met Monday evening to discuss developments in Syria and the Middle East, as well as bilateral relations, according to the Turkish President's office. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Pentagon skeptical of Russian withdrawal plans for Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking to employees of Rostec Corporation during an awarding ceremony at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside in Moscow, Russia. The Tass news agency says that Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived at a Russian military air base in Syria on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. (Sergei Karpukhin/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin declares victory on visit to air base in Syria

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Israel aids Syrians caught in civil war

By Renee Garfinkel

In this Monday, Dec. 11, 2017 frame grab made available by Russian Rossiya 24 TV Channel Sergei Surovikin, Russian Commander in Syria, 3rd left, reports to President Vladimir Putin, right, as Syrian President Bashar Assad, 4th left, listens, at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria. Declaring a victory in Syria, Putin on Monday visited a Russian military air base in the country and announced a partial pullout of Russian forces from the Mideast nation (Rossiya 24 TV Channel photo via AP)

Vladimir Putin praises Russian military in Syria visit, announces partial withdrawal

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

The bittersweet life for one Syrian refugee in Maryland

By CHRIS MILLER - Associated Press

Putin says IS suffers ‘complete defeat’ in eastern Syria

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Pentagon: About 2,000 US troops in Syria

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The Latest: Putin says IS defeated in eastern Syria

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A Hezbollah fighter looks toward Syria from the fields of the Lebanese border village of Brital. Iran is making its greatest progress to date toward its goal of creating a "Shiite Crescent," a land connection from Iran to Lebanon, where Tehran-backed Hezbollah militants have a long-established political foothold. (Associated Press/File)

Iran’s ‘Shiite Crescent’ across Middle East nearly built

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Mattis signals military shift in Syria to reflect IS defeat

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Mansour Al Omari, Syria detention center survivor, loans the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum the scraps of cloth with names of others incarcerated with him that he smuggled out of the detention center. (Associated Press)

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit sheds light on ‘disappeared’ Syrians

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

Smoke rises while Iraqi security forces and local tribal fighters attack Rawah, 175 miles (281 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Nov. 17, 2017. Iraqi forces backed by the U.S.-led coalition retook the last town in the country that was held by the Islamic State group, more than three years after the militants stormed nearly a third of Iraq's territory, the Defense Ministry said. (AP Photo/Osama Sami) ** FILE **

Pentagon: 801 civilians killed in coalition airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria

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Gilles de Kerchove, the European Union's counter-terrorism coordinator, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. De Kerchove says the loss of its so-called &quot;caliphate&quot; will cripple the Islamic State group but the threat from the extremists is not over yet. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

EU official: IS remains threat despite loss of ‘caliphate’

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

The Latest: More than 400 US Marines to leave Syria

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017 filer, Panama's coach Hernan Dario Gomez, from Colombia, celebrates with his player Roman Torres who scored his team's second goal, after a 2018 Russia World Cup qualifying soccer match against Costa Rica in Panama City. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, File)

WORLD CUP DRAW: Guide to Pot 4 featuring newcomer Panama

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