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By Jeff Mason and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will not back away from its nearly eight-year-old deployment to Syria, where it is battling the remnants of Islamic State, despite attacks on U.S. forces there last week by Iran-backed militia, the White House said on Monday. A one-way attack drone struck a U.S. base in Syria on March 23, killing an American contractor, injuring another and wounding five U.S. troops. That triggered U.S. retaliatory air strikes and exchanges ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will not back away from its nearly eight-year-old deployment to Syria, where it is battling the remnants of Islamic State, despite attacks on U.S. forces there last week by Iran-backed militia, the White House said on Monday. | 01:52pm

The United States will not back away from its nearly eight-year-old deployment to Syria, where it is battling the remnants of Islamic State, despite attacks on U.S. forces there last week by Iran-backed militia, the White House said on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will not back away from its nearly eight-year-old deployment to Syria, where it is battling the remnants of Islamic State, despite attacks on U.S. forces there last week by Iran-backed militia, the White House said on Monday.

To understand this and also as the cameras fade away in the week or two after the shooting, their lives will become more difficult and their need for support greater. >> the president, jeff, as you know, understands how quickly the public will can come and go, not in any other sense but that lives move on. we know this. there was some gun legislation passed after the tragedy in uvalde. but is there any chance you see of another piece of gun legislation getting through before the new congress gav...

The u.s. this year. in just the three days since the walmart assault in virginia, there have been mass shootings in florida, pennsylvania, maryland, texas. grim statistics. now president biden says he will once again try to pass a bill banning assault weapons. >> the idea we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick. its just sick. it has no social redeeming value, zero, none. not a single solitary rationale for it. >> can you do anything about gun laws? >> im going to try. im go...

A right to have a firearm in your home for self-protection. last term, the supreme court expanded that to public places. even this hyperconservative court with this expansive interpretation of the second amendment still says its constitutional to place limits on the type of people who can possess firearms. its illegal to have a gun if you have previously been con convicted of a felony. congress could expand the red flag laws and limitations on types of guns. its illegal to own an automatic weapo...