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FILE - In this Wednesday, April 4, 2018 file photo, a U.S. soldier, left, sits on an armored vehicle behind a sand barrier at a newly installed position near the front line between the U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council and the Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria. The U.S. military said Friday it has started pulling equipment, but not troops, out of Syria as a first step in meeting President Donald Trump's demand for a complete military withdrawal. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

U.S. Begins Withdrawing Supplies, Not Troops, From Syria

by Robert Burns Associated PressJanuary 11, 2019

Central American migrants traveling with a caravan to the U.S. make their way to Pijijiapan, Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. The sprawling caravan of migrants hoping to make their way to the United States set off again, forming a column more than a mile long as the group trekked out of the town of Mapastepec in southern Mexico before dawn. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Mattis OKs Request for Border Troops

by Robert Burns Associated Press, and Jill Colvin Associated PressOctober 26, 2018

Afghan police officers search a vehicle at a checkpoint on the Ghazni highway, in Maidan Shar, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. A Taliban assault on Ghazni, a key city linking areas of Taliban influence barely 75 miles from Kabul, has killed about 100 Afghan policemen and soldiers since Friday, the Afghan Defense Ministry said. A year after the Trump administration introduced its strategy for Afghanistan, the Taliban are asserting themselves on the battlefield even as U.S. officials talk up hopes for peace. That’s raising questions about the viability of the American game plan for ending a war that began when some of the current U.S. troops were in diapers. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban Offensive Expo

by Robert Burns AP National Security WriterAugust 13, 2018

A grave marker for an unknown soldier from the Korean War is shown at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu on Monday, July 30, 2018. Human remains handed over to the U.S. government from North Korea are expected to arrive Wednesday in Honolulu, where scientists will begin the painstaking process of trying to match DNA from the bones to those of American soldiers who didn’t return from the Korean War more than a half century ago. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones)

Identification Lacking With War Remains

by Robert Burns AP National Security WriterAugust 1, 2018

FILE - In this July 7, 2018, file photo, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, and Kim Yong Chol, a North Korean senior ruling party official and former intelligence chief, arrive for a lunch at the Park Hwa Guest House in Pyongyang, North Korea. More than a month after North Korea pledged to immediately return some American war dead, the promise is unfulfilled. Pompeo, who traveled to Pyongyang earlier this month to press the North Koreans further, said Wednesday, July 18, the return could begin “in the next couple of weeks.” (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, File)

Trump, Kim Fall Short on War Remains

by Robert Burns AP National Security WriterJuly 18, 2018

U.S. Secretary for Defense Jim Mattis, center, speaks with Bahrain's Defense Minister Yusuf Al Jalahma, left, and Iraq's Defense Minister Erfan Al-Heiali during a meeting of NATO ministers and partners to combat the Islamic State at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, June 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, Pool)

U.S. Says It Will Intensify ISIS Fight in Afghanistan

by Robert Burns AP National Security WriterJune 9, 2018

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, a C-17 Globemaster III, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, conducts combat airlift operations for U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq and Syria on April 13, 2018. The drama of U.S. and allied missiles strikes on Syria has obscured the fact that the U.S.-led campaign to eliminate the Islamic State from Syria has stalled. This is an illustration of the many-layered complexities of the Syrian conflict. (Tech. Sgt Gregory Brook/U.S. Air Force via AP)

After Syria Missile Strikes, U.S. Stuck in Holding Pattern

by Robert Burns AP National Security WriterApril 20, 2018

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis greets soliders at Fort Bragg, N.C., Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)

Mattis: U.S. Ready for War With N. Korea

by Robert Burns AP National Security WriterDecember 22, 2017

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 file photo, Air Force Gen. John Hyten, the incoming commander of the United States Strategic Command, speaks to reporters following a change of command ceremony at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, Neb. On Saturday, Nov. 17, 2017, the top officer at U.S. Strategic Command says an order from President Donald Trump or any of his successors to launch nuclear weapons can be refused if that order is determined to be illegal. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

New Debate on Nuclear War Authority

by Robert Burns AP National Security WriterNovember 19, 2017

Flags mark evidence on the lawn of the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, a day after over 20 people died in a mass shooting Sunday. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Air Force Lapse Allowed Killer to Buy Guns

by Lisa Marie Pane Associated Press, and Robert Burns Associated PressNovember 7, 2017