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Col. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian General Staff attends a briefing in the Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, backdropped by a screen showing a Russian navy's Admiral Essen frigate launching a cruise missile at the Islamic state in Syria. The commander of the Russian forces in Syria Sergei Surovikin says Russian jets have carried out more than 2,600 airstrikes in the past two weeks to support the government's efforts to drive Islamic State militants from an eastern city. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

UN probe says Syrian government launched April sarin attack

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This photo released on Saturday, Sept 2, 2017 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian troops and pro-government gunmen advancing up a hill in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, Syria. Opposition activists and Syrian state media say government forces are close to breaking a nearly three-year siege imposed by the Islamic State group on parts of the provincial capital of the oil-rich province of the same name. (SANA via AP)

The Latest: Russia welcomes Syrian breach of IS siege

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This photo released on Saturday, Sept 2, 2017, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian troops and pro-government gunmen standing guard at one of the frontline hills where they are fighting Islamic State militants in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, Syria. Syrian opposition activists and state media say government forces are close to breaking a nearly three-year siege imposed by the Islamic State group on parts of the provincial capital of the oil-rich province of the same name. (SANA via AP)

Russia fires cruise missiles at ISIS targets in east Syria

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As the U.S. coalition continues its campaign against the Islamic State in Raqqa, many are resigned to the reality that Syrian President Bashar Assad will hold on to power. (Associated Press)

Assad gains confidence for victory in Syria’s 6-year-old civil war

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Iran extends reach with fight for land link to Mediterranean

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A Syrian displaced family that fled the battle between U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and the Islamic State militants from Raqqa arrive at a refugee camp in northeast Syria. The U.S. military is supporting local Syrian forces in a campaign to drive the Islamic State from Raqqa. (Associated Press)

Syrian rebels fear Bashar Assad benefits from Trump-Putin truce

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Hezbollah supporters mourned their commander Mustafa Badreddine, who was killed in an explosion last year in Damascus. The Lebanese Shiite group has played a significant role in the conflict next door, but there are signs that its alliance with the Syrian government is fraying. (Associated Press/File)

To undercut Iran, Russians pressure Assad to cut Syria’s longtime ties to Hezbollah

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FILE -- In this June 27, 2017 file photo and released on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, Syrian President Bashar Assad inspects the Russian Hmeimim air base in the province of Latakia, Syria. (Syrian Presidency via AP, File)

Analysis: Can IS be ousted from Syria without Assad’s help?

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Mohammad al-Haj Ali, 28, and his wife Samah Hamidi, 25, pose for a photo during an interview in their home in Irbid, Jordan on Thursday, June 29, 2017. The family fled the Syrian war in 2012 for Jordan and was in the resettlement pipeline to the U.S. when President Donald Trump's executive order stalled the process. Once sure of his future in the U.S., al-Haj Ali had quit his job, sold the furniture and rented an apartment in the city of Rockford near his uncle's home in Illinois. The family still has five suitcases packed but has scant hope for resettlement in America. (AP Photo/Reem Saad)

The wider war in Syria

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis briefs the press prior to a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Marshall Plan at the George C. Marshall Center in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Mattis says Syria’s government taking US threat seriously

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FILE -In this fie picture taken on Tuesday April 4, 2017, Abdul-Hamid Alyousef, 29, holds his twin babies who were killed during a suspected chemical weapons attack, in Khan Sheikhoun in the northern province of Idlib, Syria. The Syrian government on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 dismissed White House allegations that it was preparing a new chemical weapons attack, as activists reported an airstrike on an Islamic State-run jail in eastern Syria that they said killed more than 40 prisoners. (Alaa Alyousef via AP, File)

Kremlin dismisses US warning of chemical attack in Syria

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In this file image taken from video on Monday Oct. 29, 2012, obtained from the Ugarit news network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows smoke rising from the city following heavy bombing from military warplanes, in Deir el-Zour's Jbeileh neighborhood, 450 km northeast of Damascus Syria. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video, File )

Syria denies U.S. allegations of coming chemical attack

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FILE - In this May 18, 2017 file photo, a Syrian National flag hangs out of a damaged building at the mountain resort town of Zabadani in the Damascus countryside, Syria. The Syrian government on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 dismissed White House allegations that it was preparing a new chemical weapons attack, as activists reported an airstrike on an Islamic State-run jail in eastern Syria that they said killed more than 40 prisoners. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

The Latest: US warns Syria against chemical attack

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U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley smiles while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 27, 2017, before the House State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs subcommittee budget hearing on the United Nations and International Organizations. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Haley says warning to Syria also aimed at Russia and Iran

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FILE - In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, soldiers from the Syrian army carry a rocket to fire at Islamic State group positions in the province of Raqqa, Syria. Syrian government and allied troops have inserted themselves into the battle against Islamic State militants by capturing key areas on the flanks of the coalition-led battle to seize Raqqa. They have positioned themselves as indispensable possibly spoilers in the fight to uproot the militants from Syria. (Alexander Kots/Komsomolskaya Pravda via AP, File)

Syria troops position themselves at heart of war on IS

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