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This frame grab from video posted online Monday, March 18, 2019, by the Aamaq News Agency, a media arm of the Islamic State group, shows IS fighters walking as they hold the group's flag inside Baghouz, the Islamic State group's last pocket of territory in Syria. U.S.-backed Syrian forces fighting the Islamic State group announced Tuesday they have taken control over an encampment in an eastern Syrian village where IS militants have been besieged for months, refusing to surrender. (Aamaq News Agency via AP)

The Latest: Russia defense minister meets with Syria’s Assad

From the left, Sergei Ivanov, Russian special representative on questions of ecology and transport, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Chief of General Staff of Russia Valery Gerasimov, oversee the test launch of the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle from the Defense Ministry's control room in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018. In the test, the Avangard was launched from the Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains. The Kremlin says it successfully hit a designated practice target on the Kura shooting range on Kamchatka, 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) away. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia’s ‘hybrid warfare’ plan employs military action, cyberattacks to divide West

Turkey, Iran team up to fight U.S. Kurdish allies in Syria

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Iran's Chief of Staff of Armed Forces, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, left, speaks during a press conference with Syria's defense minister Gen. Ali Ayoub, center, and Iraqi army commander, Gen. Osman Ghanemi in Damascus, Syria, Monday, March 18, 2019. Syria's defense minister slammed what he called the "illegitimate" U.S. military presence in his country, vowing that Syria has a right to self-defense. (SANA via AP)

Syria’s defense minister slams ‘illegitimate’ US presence

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford gestures while speaking to reporters during a briefing on a military aircraft before arrival at El Paso International airport, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019. Dunford is traveling with Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan and they are planning to pay a visit to Texas-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)

‘Factually incorrect’: Joint Chiefs chairman blasts report claiming 1,000 troops will stay in Syria

People walk inside Baghouz, the Islamic State group's last pocket of territory in Syria, Sunday, March 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

US-backed forces admit to ‘difficulties’ beating IS in Syria

Syria to UN envoy: Constitution is a ‘sovereign’ matter

For Syrians, 8 years of war leaves stories of loss and hope

Iran-backed militias work to drive U.S. from Iraq

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, right, and UN Syria envoy Geir Pedersen talk to journalists at the European Parliament on the eve of the Syria donors conference, in Brussels, Wednesday, March 13, 2019. Top officials are warning that the crisis in Syria is not over and are calling for large-scale support for people in need on the eve of a major donor's conference. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Donors pledge $7B in aid for Syria, refugees

Australia won’t risk lives returning IS refugees from Syria

A U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter watches illumination rounds light up Baghouz, Syria, as the last pocket of Islamic State militants is attacked on Tuesday, March 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

The Latest: Activists say Russia airstrikes hit Idlib prison

Israel says it uncovered Hezbollah network on Syria frontier

Smoke billows as U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fire on Islamic State militant positions in Baghouz, Syria, Monday, March 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Aid groups appeal for Syria funds as donors head to Brussels

An illumination round lights up the battlefield as U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fire on Islamic State militant positions in Baghouz, Syria, Monday, March 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Islamic State group calls on followers to avenge Syria siege

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An official with the U.S.-backed force fighting the Islamic State group in eastern Syria says some 500 people, including fighters, have surrendered and evacuated the last area held by the extremists.

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