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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on as he receives the Royal Order of the Polar Star ahead of the start of the 31st Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Ministerial summit, in Ta'Qali, Malta, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (Alberto Pizzoli/Pool Photo via AP)

US says it will support new Syrian leaders who protect women and renounce terrorism

The Biden administration says the United States will recognize and support a new Syrian government that renounces terrorism, destroys chemical weapons stocks and protects the rights of minorities and women.

Syrian opposition fighters man a checkpoint in Damascus, Syria, Monday Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

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President Joe Biden speaks at the National Museum of Slavery, in the capital Luanda, Angola on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Biden says the US is ‘all in’ on Africa during his Angola visit meant to counter China

A view of Lebanese village through a window of a damaged house that was hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in the Kibbutz Manara, located in the upper Galilee, northern Israel, Monday Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israeli strikes kill 11 in Lebanon after fire exchanges with Hezbollah that test ceasefire’s limits

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attend a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Dec.2, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

German leader Scholz vows more Ukraine aid and defends his phone call with Putin

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FILE - Citizens visit the portraits of the country's late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the 78th founding anniversary of the Worker's Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea, Oct. 10, 2023. The White House says that North Korea has delivered more than 1,000 containers of military equipment and munitions to Russia for its ongoing war in Ukraine. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Friday the U.S. believes Kim is seeking sophisticated Russian weapons technologies in return for the munitions to boost North Korea’s military. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin, file)

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President Joe Biden speaks during a roundtable with Jewish community leaders in the Indian Treaty Room on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Ali Barakeh, a member of Hamas’ exiled leadership, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. Barakeh on Monday denied that Iran or the Lebanese Hezbollah had helped plan or were even aware of the wide-ranging incursion his group launched into Israel, but said “our allies will join the battle if Gaza is subjected to a war of annihilation.” (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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The White House is lit in blue and white, the colors of the Israeli flag, to underscore U.S. solidarity with Israel, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

US begins delivering munitions to Israel as the American death toll rises to 11 in Hamas attacks

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden tries to reassure allies of continued US support for Ukraine after Congress drops aid request

Kosovo police officers search restaurant and building in northern Serb-dominated part of ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. In one of the worst confrontations since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, about 30 masked men opened fire on a police patrol near the village of Banjska early Sunday. One Kosovo police officer and three gunmen were killed in Sunday's shootout between Serb insurgents and Kosovo police. (AP Photo/Radul Radovanovic)

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Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud attends Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment event on the day of the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, Sept. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Pool)

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FILE - Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing July 11, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate has confirmed Brown as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, putting him in place to succeed Gen. Mark Milley when he retires at the end of the month. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

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FILE - Vice President Kamala Harris, right, next to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, speaks during a plenary session of the US-ASEAN Summit, May 13, 2022, at the State Department in Washington. Harris is visiting Indonesia this week for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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From left to right, Malaysia's Foreign Minister Zambry Abd Kadir, Philippines' Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo, Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, Thailand's Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sarun Charoensuwan, Vietnam's Deputy Foreign Minister Do Hung Viet, Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, Laos' Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith, Brunei's Foreign Minister Erywan Yusof, Cambodia's Foreign Minister Sok Chenda Sophea, East Timor's Foreign Minister Bendito dos Santos Freitas, and ASEAN Secretary General Kao Kim Hourn, pose for a family photo during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting ahead of the ASEAN Summit, at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. (Bay Ismoyo/Pool Photo via AP)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting in Moscow, Aug. 23, 2023, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a meeting of the ruling Workers' Party at its headquarters in Pyongyang, North Korea, in early 2023. The White House says it has intelligence showing Putin and Kim Jong Un have swapped letters as Russia looks to North Korea for additional munitions for its war in Ukraine. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool and Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

White House says Putin and Kim Jong Un traded letters as Russia looks for munitions from North Korea

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House says top Russian official pitched North Korea on increasing sale of munitions to Moscow

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, left, listens as National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, July 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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