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President-elect Trump’s choice for special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, slammed the Russian ...

The rebels, which operate under the military command of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (HTS), moved into the capital ...