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Carlo Muñoz is a former military correspondent for The Washington Times.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meets with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. Russia's top diplomat accuses the U.S. of carrying out an unlawful attack against Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces as he opened a fraught meeting with Tillerson. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian envoy delivers diatribe on U.S. action in Syria

The Russian envoy to the United Nations' Security Council delivered a scathing diatribe against recent U.S. military action in Syria, as Moscow prepares to block a council resolution condemning President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons.

April 12, 2017
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, joined by Gen. Joseph Votel, speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. Mattis said the campaign against the Islamic State group is still the main focus of the U.S. in Syria and remains on track. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

James Mattis: U.S. naval strike on Syrian forces not harbinger of shifting policy

The precision U.S. strike against a Syrian airbase last week was a compromise effort by President Trump's national security team to punish President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons, while making sure Washington does not get sucked deeper into the country's six-year civil war, Defense Secretary James Mattis said Tuesday.

April 11, 2017
Defense Secretary Rex W. Tillerson (left) has acknowledged that he and President Trump have different views on the nuclear accord and how the administration should use it going forward. (Associated Press/File)

Syria attack blurs focus on ISIS

U.S. commanders and Pentagon strategists tried Monday to shift their focus back to the fight against the Islamic State group after a White House-ordered attack against forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, insisting the one-time strike to punish the use of chemical weapons by Damascus had not drawn the U.S. deeper into Syria's 6-year-old civil war.

April 10, 2017
FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012 file photo, Syrians check the damage of a destroyed school after it was hit by an air strike killing six Syrians in town of Tal Rifat on the outskirts of Aleppo city, Syria. With its missile strike on Shayrat Airbase in central Syria, Washington signaled that it had judged President Bashar Assad responsible for the horrific chemical weapons attack in north Syria that drew international outrage last week. But it is not the first or even deadliest atrocity of the war. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra, FILE)

Pentagon defends limited scope of Syrian attack

Defense Secretary James Mattis and other top U.S. military leaders on Monday defended the limited scope of the U.S. bombardment of a Syrian military base, downplaying recent reports that the American naval strike did little to deter the country's military operations.

April 10, 2017
In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Ross (DDG 71) fires a tomahawk land attack missile Friday, April 7, 2017, from the Mediterranean Sea. The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles in fiery retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Robert S. Price/U.S. Navy via AP)

U.S. launches missile strike on a Syrian military airfield

American warships stationed off the Syrian coastline fired a salvo of cruise missiles against a Syrian military base in the western part of the country, days after a regime chemical strike left nearly 100 civilians wounded or dead.

April 6, 2017
This frame grab from video provided on Tuesday April 4, 2017, by Qasioun News Agency, that is consistent with independent AP reporting, shows a Syrian doctor treating a boy following a suspected chemical attack, in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, northern Idlib province, Syria. The suspected chemical attack killed dozens of people on Tuesday, Syrian opposition activists said, describing the attack as among the worst in the country's six-year civil war. (Qasioun News Agency, via AP)

White House denounces Syrian gas attack, blames Obama’s weak policy

The Trump administration joined governments around the world in condemning the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad for a horrific chemical weapons attack Tuesday that killed at least 58 people, including 11 children, saying the Obama administration shared some of the blame for refusing to enforce its "red line" against chemical weapons attacks by Mr. Assad's forces.

April 4, 2017
Jared Kushner (third from left), President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, accompanied Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford (second from left) to discuss Iraq's security in the face of threats from the Islamic State. (Associated Press)

Jared Kushner joins Gen. Joseph Dunford for Islamic State talks in Baghdad

Stepping up the drive to clear out Islamic State's last strongholds in Syria and Iraq, Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and increasingly influential adviser, arrived Monday with Joint Chiefs of Staff head Gen. Joseph Dunford for talks in Baghdad with top Iraqi military leaders.

April 3, 2017
FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2006 file photo, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland at Ri-Kwangba in southern Sudan. A rebel in charge of communications for warlord Joseph Kony has surrendered to Ugandan forces, the military said Thursday, March 30, 2017 shortly after the U.S. indicated it was pulling out of the international manhunt for one of Africa's most notorious fugitives. (Stuart Price, Pool Photo via AP, File)

U.S. ends hunt for Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony

American special operations forces tasked with hunting down infamous Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony have been ordered to stand down, ending the six-year U.S. mission to kill or capture the Lord's Resistance Army's chieftain.

March 30, 2017