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Bryant Harris is a freelance reporter in Washington covering the nexus of foreign policy, national security and US politics. He has years of experience covering Congress for Defense News and Al-Monitor with additional bylines in Foreign Policy, and IPS News. Prior to that, he covered the White House for Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper, and served as a US Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco. On Twitter: @brykharris_ALM
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![UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 29, 2020. Kelly Craft ,C, front, U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations, addresses a Security Council meeting on the situation in Syria, at the UN headquarters in New York, Feb. 28, 2020. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday warned that the Syrian conflict has changed in its nature, calling on parties concerned to heed the risk that the military escalation in northwest Syria might run out of control. (Photo by Li Muzi/Xinhua via Getty)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/05/GettyImages-1204559487.jpg/GettyImages-1204559487.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=vE3KakCl)
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![A protester shouts slogan. After U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a demonstration took place in Toulouse against this decision as other towns short before. They marched to the U.S. consulate in Toulouse. Toulouse. France. December 12th 2017. (Photo by Alain Pitton/NurPhoto)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2020/05/GettyImages-891274722.jpg/GettyImages-891274722.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=2cf0MoZm)
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