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Supporters and members of the Popular Mobilization Forces hold posters of a powerful Iranian general and a top Iraqi militia leader in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. Hundreds rally in Baghdad on Soleimani assassination anniversary, chanting anti-American slogans, hundreds of people rallied in in the Iraqi capital on the first day of the year Saturday to mark the anniversary of the killing of a powerful Iranian general and a top Iraqi militia leader in a U.S. drone strike. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Risk of U.S.-Iran shadow conflict in Iraq grows as Tehran-backed militias lash out, lose allies

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Posters of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone attack in Jan. 3, 2020, are seen in front of Qiam, background left, Zolfaghar, top right, and Dezful missiles displayed in a missile capabilities exhibition by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard a day prior to second anniversary of Iran's missile strike on U.S. bases in Iraq in retaliation for killing Gen. Soleimani, at Imam Khomeini grand mosque, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. Iran put three ballistic missiles on display on Friday, as talks in Vienna aimed at reviving Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers flounder. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) **FILE**

Iran-backed forces in Syria attack U.S. troops in anti-ISIS coalition

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows a bulldozer moving burned containers from the scene of a missile attack, at the seaport of the coastal city of Latakia, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Syria’s military said Israeli warplanes fired the missiles causing fire without inflicting any human losses. Syria’s state media quoted an unnamed military official as saying that several missiles struck the containers area in the port early on Tuesday, setting some of them on fire. (SANA via AP)

Israeli official says Syria must not have chemical weapons

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

In this March 25, 2015, photo, U.S. Army soldiers from the 25th Infantry Division's 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team and South Korean soldiers take their positions during a demonstration of the combined arms live-fire exercise as part of the annual joint military exercise between South Korea and the United States at the Rodriquez Multi-Purpose Range Complex in Pocheon, north of Seoul, South Korea. The South Korean and U.S. militaries have postponed on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, their annual joint drills out of concerns over a virus outbreak. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) **FILE**

After attack on U.S. base in Syria, contractors step up work on drone defenses

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian firefighter extinguishes a burned bus at the site of a deadly explosion, in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. Two roadside bombs exploded near a bus carrying troops during the morning rush hour in the Syrian capital early Wednesday, killing and wounding several people, state TV reported. (SANA via AP)

Bus bombs kill 14 in Syria capital; shells elsewhere kill 10

By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this2011 file photo, Rifaat Assad poses for a photographer in Paris. President Bashar Assad allowed his exiled uncle back into Syria to avoid serving a four-year prison term in France, where has spent more than 30 years, a pro-government newspaper reported late Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Syria’s Assad allows exiled uncle to return to avoid prison

By Sarah El Deeb and Angela Charlton - Associated Press

In this June 13, 2021, file photo, a man walks through a heavily damaged hospital in the city of Afrin, Syria. Countries like Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen are all teetering on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe with an economic implosion that threatens to throw the region into even deeper turmoil. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

U.N. tallies 350K dead in Syria war, admits toll likely higher

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In this Nov. 13, 2015, file photo, rescue workers help a woman after a shooting, outside the Bataclan theater in Paris. France is putting on trial 20 men accused in the Nov. 13, 2015, Islamic State terror attacks on Paris that left 130 people dead and hundreds injured. Nine gunmen and suicide bombers struck within minutes of each other at the national soccer stadium, the Bataclan concert hall and restaurants and cafes. The lone survivor of the terror cell from that night is among those being tried for the deadliest attack in France since World War II. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Emotions raw before Paris trial for Islamic State carnage

By Lori Hinnant and Nicolas Vaux-Montagny - Associated Press

In this Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, file photo, crewmen of Bradley fighting vehicles stand guard at a U.S. military base in Northeastern Syria. Iran has had its fingers in Iraq's politics for years, but the U.S. killing of an Iranian general and Iraqi militia commander outside Baghdad has added new impetus to the effort, stoking anti-Americanism that Tehran now hopes it can exploit to help realize the goal of getting U.S. troops out of the country. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

The forgotten ‘forever war’: Biden boosts U.S. military footprint in Syria

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, photo, crewmen of Bradley fighting vehicles stand guard at a U.S. military base in Northeastern Syria. Iran has had its fingers in Iraq's politics for years, but the U.S. killing of an Iranian general and Iraqi militia commander outside Baghdad has added new impetus to the effort, stoking anti-Americanism that Tehran now hopes it can exploit to help realize the goal of getting U.S. troops out of the country. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic) **FILE**

U.S. troops not abandoning its bases inside Syria, Pentagon says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Members of the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, a Sunni Islamist militant group, wave the Taliban flags as they celebrate the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, in the city of Idlib, Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan is giving radical Islamic groups from Syria and the Gaza Strip to Pakistan and West Africa reason to celebrate. They see America's violence-marred exit from Afghanistan as an opportunity to regroup and reassert their ideology. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Taliban success in Afghanistan seen as boost for extremists

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi poses in his office during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Biden, Iraqi leader to discuss U.S. troops, Iran-linked drone strikes

By Ben Wolfgang and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 26, 2021, file photo, Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, waves to his supporters at a polling station during the Presidential elections in the town of Douma, in the eastern Ghouta region, near the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria. President Assad was sworn in Saturday, July 17, for a fourth seven-year term in the war-torn country.(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Syrian president sworn in for 4th term in war-torn country

Associated Press

Unconstitutional Bombing by Presidents Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Can the president kill?

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on Capital Hill in Washington, in this Tuesday, May 11, 2021, file photo. College athletes would have the right to organize and collectively bargain with schools and conferences under a bill introduced Thursday, May 27, by Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate. Sen. Chris Murphy (Conn.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) announced the College Athletes Right to Organize Act. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP, File) **FILE**

Airstrikes raise war powers questions as Senate debates repeal of 2002 authorization

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times