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

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Buses were sent to the war-torn city of Aleppo to evacuate residents under a cease-fire deal reached with rebels in the wake of a Russian-backed assault that Syrian President Bashar Assad called a successful "liberation." (Associated Press)

Bashar Assad’s Syria ouster still demand of U.S., Britain

U.S. and British defense chiefs said Thursday that they are sticking by their demand that President Bashar Assad must go as part of any settlement of Syria's bloody civil war, just days after Mr. Assad's forces scored one of their biggest victories over rebels in Aleppo.

December 15, 2016
Foreign students in Bosnia hold toy dolls to symbolize dying infants of Aleppo, Syria, during a solidarity rally in Sarajevo, Bosnia on Wednesday. The U.S. fears Palmyra's fall will boost the Islamic State's firepower. (Associated Press)

U.S. fears boost in Islamic State firepower after Palmyra’s fall

U.S. commanders are weighing possible airstrikes against Islamic State militants who recently recaptured the Syrian city of Palmyra, driven by concerns the group may have obtained surface-to-air missiles in the city and will use them against the U.S. and its coalition allies.

December 14, 2016
A Syrian soldier places a national flag on the front line with rebel fighters east of Aleppo. Despite the city's fall, the bloody civil war will rage on. (Associated Press)

Aleppo’s fall marks new, uncertain phase of Syrian war

The rout of Syrian rebels by the Russian-backed forces of President Bashar Assad in the city of Aleppo likely marks the beginning of the end of the civil war that has ravaged the country for more than 5 years and led to the unprecedented slaughter of hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped by the fighting.

December 13, 2016
President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House slams Donald Trump, GOP over probes of Russian hacking in election

The White House raised transition tensions with President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, laying out "objective facts" of the mogul's ties to Russia and lashing out at congressional Republicans who now want to investigate whether Moscow's cyberattacks were aimed at helping Mr. Trump win the election.

December 12, 2016
Kurdish peshmerga fighters stand on a sand barrier created by Kurdish forces to demarcate their border, in the Nineveh plain, northeast of Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Kurds looking to Trump in post-Mosul scramble

Iraq's Kurds, having played a major role in the fight against Islamic State, are banking that the incoming Trump White House will expand U.S. military and political support for Iraq, taking on a larger role in stabilizing the country after the defeat of the terror group in Mosul.

December 8, 2016
Afghan security forces inspect the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on Nov. 16, just one in a series of attacks by Taliban insurgents and Islamic State fighters over the past two months. (Associated Press)

Taliban assaults halt progress of Afghan, coalition forces

Afghan forces are incapable of rolling back gains made by a resurgent Taliban over the past several months without a larger U.S. military presence in the country, according to an analysis of the 15-year-old conflict.

November 28, 2016
U.S.-backed fighters are moving toward Raqqa, Syria, for a crucial battle against the Islamic State group, but infighting is plaguing the coalition. (Associated Press)

Turkey advances on ISIS capital of Raqqa as U.S.-backed coalition crumbles

While the U.S.-backed campaign to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State in Iraq makes slow but steady progress, the battle for Raqqa, Syria, the "capital" of the group's self-styled caliphate, has gotten off to a much shakier start, with various factions of the U.S.-backed coalition already at odds.

November 20, 2016
Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, who has worked in the U.S. intelligence community for a half-century, officially submitted his resignation on Thursday, saying he is contented with the decision to retire. (Associated Press)

James Clapper’s resignation gives Trump another hole to fill

Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper abruptly announced plans to step down Thursday after six sometimes-contentious years in the post, opening another gap in the growing list of top national security posts the incoming Trump administration will have to fill in the coming weeks.

November 17, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally in New York. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File) ** FILE **

Donald Trump willing to work with Russia on Syrian civil war issue

President-elect Donald Trump's expressed willingness to work directly with Russia could pave the way for direct talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime in the fight against Islamic State, the former head of the Turkish military said Wednesday.

November 16, 2016
Russian airstrikes have been targeting opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad, including those supported by the U.S. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump’s talk of teaming with Russia against ISIS draws pushback on Hill

President-elect Donald Trump's talk of direct U.S.-Russian military coordination in the war against the Islamic State in Syria is already drawing criticism on Capitol Hill and has Pentagon and State Department officials scrambling over how to implement the sharp shift in policy in the months ahead.

November 15, 2016