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This Thursday, March 29, 2018 photo, posted online by supporters of the Islamic State militant group on an anonymous photo sharing website, purports to show an Islamic State fighter firing his weapon during clashes with Syrian troop in Souseh, eastern Syria. Even as President Donald Trump mulls a U.S. pullout, insisting that the Islamic State is “almost completely defeated,” the extremist group is showing signs of resurgence in Syria. (Militant Photo via AP)

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As Trump mulls a pullout, IS attempts to re-emerge in Syria

by Sarah El Deeb Associated Press, and Philip Issa Associated PressApril 5, 2018

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at a ceremony for judicial appointments in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, March 19, 2018. Erdogan says following victory in Syria's Afrin region, his country will expand its military operations into other Kurdish-held areas in Syria as well as in Iraq's Sinjar region.(Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Pool Photo via AP)

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Turkey vows to widen offensive to eastern Syria, Iraq

by Sarah El Deeb Associated Press, and Suzan Fraser Associated PressMarch 19, 2018

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, left, speaks with Jordan's Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, right, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, during the opening of the High-Level Segment of the 37th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

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Still no cease-fire in Syrian enclave

by Sarah El Deeb Associated Press, and Bassem Mroue Associated PressFebruary 26, 2018

This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a civil defense worker carrying a victim after airstrikes hit a rebel-held suburb near Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018. Syrian rescue workers and activists say the death toll from ongoing government strikes on the opposition-held region near the capital Damascus has risen to at least 35. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

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Syria says US strike done ‘to support terrorism’

by Sarah El Deeb Associated PressFebruary 8, 2018

FILE - In this July 27, 2017 file photo, U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighters, pass through holes as they cross from building to building to hide from snipers, on the front line with Islamic State group militants, in Raqqa, Syria. As U.S.-allied fighters hurtle down the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, a showdown could ensue between the U.S. and Russia, whose allies are racing to take over the same strategic oil-rich territory from IS. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

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Potential showdown for US-backed forces in Syria over IS-held territory

by Zeina Karam Associated Press, and Sarah El Deeb Associated PressOctober 24, 2017

This Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017 frame grab from video, shows Syrian soldiers patrolling in the street of Qaryatayn, a town in central Syria which was recaptured from Islamic State group militants on Saturday. The bodies of at least 67 Syrian civilians, many summarily killed by the Islamic State group, have been discovered in Qaryatayn, activists said Monday, Oct. 23, 2017. (AP Photo)

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IS came with a hit list, left Syria town in a trail of blood

by Sarah El Deeb Associated PressOctober 23, 2017

This July 30, 2017 photo, shows an oil field controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in Rmeilan, Hassakeh province, northeast Syria. The SDF, with air support from the U.S.-led coalition, said Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017 that they had captured the Al-Omar field, Syria’s largest oil field, from the Islamic State group, marking a major advance against the extremists and for now keeping the area out of the hands of pro-government forces. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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US-backed forces take Syria’s largest oil field from IS

by Sarah El Deeb Associated PressOctober 22, 2017

This photo provided Tuesday, April 4, 2017 by the Syrian anti-government activist group Edlib Media Center, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian doctors treating a child following a suspected chemical attack, at a makeshift hospital, 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. (Edlib Media Center, via AP)

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Chemical attack kills dozens in Syria, US blames Assad

by Sarah El Deeb Associated Press, and Zeina Karam Associated PressApril 4, 2017

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian soldier carries a wounded woman in eastern Aleppo, Syria on Monday. Syria's military said Monday it has regained control of 98 percent of eastern Aleppo, as government forces close in the last remaining sliver of a rebel enclave packed with fighters as well as tens of thousands of civilians.

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Syria rebels retreat in ‘terrifying’ collapse

by Sarah El Deeb Associated Press, and Zeina Karam Associated PressDecember 12, 2016

This image posted online on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016, by supporters of the Islamic State militant group on an anonymous photo sharing website, purports to show a convoy of vehicles of IS driving in a desert area of east of Palmyra city, in Homs, Syria. Syrian opposition activists say the Islamic State group has regained control of the ancient town of Palmyra despite a wave of Russian airstrikes in a major advance after a year of setbacks for the group in Syria and Iraq. The Arabic caption reads, "Islamic Caliphate soldiers head to the bases of the Nussayari (derogative for Alawite Syrian) in the deserted base near T-4 military air base." (Militant Photo via AP)

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Militants retake ancient city of Palmyra from Syrian forces

by Sarah El Deeb Associated PressDecember 11, 2016