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Women speak to guards at the gate that closes off the section for foreign families who lived in the Islamic State's so-called caliphate, at Al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria, March 31, 2019. U.S.-backed Syrian fighters said Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, they have concluded a 24-day sweep at operation at a sprawling camp in northeast Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

US-backed Syrian forces free women in 3-week raid of IS camp

A Hezbollah member wears a vest with Arabic that reads: "40 years and we stay with Hussein (the Prophet Muhammad's grand son)," during the holy day of Ashoura that commemorates the 7th century martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson Hussein, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 9, 2022. Forty years since it was founded, Lebanon's Hezbollah has transformed from a ragtag organization to the largest and most heavily armed militant group in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah at 40 stronger than ever but has more enemies

A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter fires rockets to engage a target during Super Garuda Shield 2022 joint military exercises in Baturaja, South Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. The United States and Indonesian militaries conducted the annual combat exercises on Indonesia's Sumatra island, joined for the first time by participants from other partner nations including Australia, Japan and Singapore, signaling stronger ties amid growing maritime activity by China in the Indo-Pacific region. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara) **FILE**

Syrian strikes, U.S. casualties complicate Biden’s delicate diplomacy with Tehran

In this file photo, American soldiers deploy in Hassakeh, Syria, Tuesday, Jen. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Hogir Al Abdo) **FILE**

U.S. responds following Iran-backed rocket attack that injured three American troops

U.S. military convoy drives near the town of Qamishli, north Syria, Saturday, Oct. 26. 2019. A U.S. convoy of over a dozen vehicles was spotted driving south of the northeastern city of Qamishli, likely heading to the oil-rich Deir el-Zour area where there are oil fields, or possibly to another base nearby. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, also reported the convoy, saying it arrived earlier from Iraq. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Pentagon: Iran-backed militants attack U.S. base in Syria

In this Monday, Aug. 11, 2014m file photo, F/A-18 fighter jets take off for a mission in Iraq from the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in the Persian Gulf. The U.S.-led coalition has carried out over 4,100 airstrikes against Islamic State radicals, with limited results. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

U.S. airstrikes target militia-controlled areas in east Syria

Marc and Debra Tice, the parents of Austin Tice, who is missing in Syria, speak during a press conference, at the Press Club, in Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 4, 2018. The Syrian Foreign Ministry denied on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, that it is holding U.S. journalist Tice or other Americans after President Joe Biden accused the Syrian government of detaining him. Tice went missing shortly after his 31st birthday on Aug. 14, 2012, at a checkpoint in a contested area west of the capital Damascus. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Syria denies it is holding American journalist Austin Tice

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship Razoni, center bottom with four white cranes on its red deck, at port in Tartus, Syria, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. The first shipment of grain to leave Ukraine under a wartime deal has ended up in Syria, even as that country remains a close ally of Moscow, satellite images analyzed Tuesday by The Associated Press show. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Satellite images show first ship out of Ukraine in Syria

Illustration on Russia and neighbors attacking internationally by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Is Russia a terrorist state?

In this handout photo provided by the Turkish Presidency, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands prior to their meeting at the Rus sanatorium in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022.( Turkish Presidency via AP )

Putin hosts Erdogan for talks on trade, Ukraine, Syria

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Canadian ISIS member gets life in U.S. prison for executions, narrating terror group’s propaganda

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea Monday, June 27, 2022. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

An unlikely ally gives Putin’s Ukraine sovereignty grab a boost

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, back to a camera, on the sideline of the summit of Caspian Sea littoral states in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on June 29, 2022. Putin's visit to Iran starting Tuesday, July 19, is intended to deepen ties with regional heavyweights as part of Moscow's challenge to the United States and Europe amid its grinding campaign in Ukraine. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin in Tehran for talks with leaders of Iran, Turkey

U.S. troops launched a counterterrorism operation on Thursday that resulted in the capture of an experienced Islamic State bomb maker who also was identified as a top leader of the ISIS branch in Syria. Photo: Aleppo, Syria 18 NOV 2017. Logos written by ISIS fighters on the walls. Mohammad Bash via Shutterstock. *FILE*

U.S. drone strike in Syria kills ISIS leader, injures another

In this photo released on the official Facebook page of Syrian Presidency, Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, visits a power station in the eastern part of Aleppo province, Syria, Friday, July 8, 2022. Assad made a rare visit to the northern province of Aleppo on Friday to inaugurate a power station that was once held by insurgents and suffered wide damages during the war, state media reported. (Syrian Presidency Facebook page via AP)

Syria’s Assad tours once rebel-held Aleppo city, power plant

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Israeli strikes on Iranian targets in Syria illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

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Did the pilots who launched air strikes in Iraq and Syria tell fellow mission members, “hope you guys stay safe” rather than “hope you fellow squaddies stay safe?

Air Force goes full throttle pansy →

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