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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Wednesday passed a $895 billion measure that authorizes a 1% increase in defense spending this fiscal year and would give a double-digit pay raise to about half of the enlisted service members in the military. The bill is traditionally strongly bipartisan, but some Democratic lawmakers opposed the inclusion of a ban on transgender medical treatments for children of military members if such treatment could result in sterilization. The bill passed the House by a vote of 281-140 and will next move to the Senate, where lawmakers had sought a bigger boost in defense spending than the current measure allows. Lawmakers are touting the bill's 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted service members and a 4.5% increase for others as key to improving the quality of life for those serving in the U.S. military. Those serving as junior enlisted personnel are in pay grades that generally track with their first enlistment term. Lawmakers said service member pay has failed to remain competitive with the private sector, forcing many military families to rely on food banks and government assistance programs to put food on the table. The bill also provides significant new resources for child care and housing. “No service member should have to live in squalid conditions and no military family should have to rely on food stamps to feed their children, but that's exactly what many of our service members are experiencing, especially the junior enlisted,” said Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. “This bill goes a long way to fixing that.” The bill sets key Pentagon policy that lawmakers will attempt to fund through a follow-up appropriations bill. The overall spending tracks the numbers established in a 2023 agreement that then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached with President Joe Biden to increase the nation’s borrowing authority and avoid a federal default in exchange for spending restraints. Many senators had wanted to increase defense spending some $25 billion above what was called for in that agreement, but those efforts failed. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., who is expected to serve as the next chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the overall spending level was a “tremendous loss for our national defense," though he agreed with many provisions within the bill. “We need to make a generational investment to deter the Axis of Aggressors. I will not cease work with my congressional colleagues, the Trump administration, and others until we achieve it,” Wicker said. House Republicans don't want to go above the McCarthy-Biden agreement for defense spending and are looking to go way below it for many non-defense programs. They are also focused on cultural issues. The bill prohibits funding for teaching critical race theory in the military and prohibits TRICARE health plans from covering gender dysphoria treatment for children under 18 if that treatment could result in sterilization. Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state, the ranking Democratic member of the House Armed Services Committee, said minors dealing with gender dysphoria is a "very real problem." He said the treatments available, including puberty blockers and hormone therapy, have proven effective at helping young people dealing with suicidal thoughts, anxiety and depression. “These treatments changed their lives and in many cases saved their lives,” Smith said. “And in this bill, we decided we're going to bar servicemembers' children from having access to that.” Smith said the number of minors in service member families receiving transgender medical care extends into the thousands. He could have supported a study asking medical experts to determine whether such treatments are too often used, but a ban on health insurance coverage went too far. He said Speaker Mike Johnson's office insisted upon the ban and said the provision “taints an otherwise excellent piece of legislation.” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, called the ban a step in the right direction, saying, “I think these questions need to be pulled out of the debate of defense, so we can get back to the business of defending the United States of America without having to deal with social engineering debates.” Smith said he agrees with Roy that lawmakers should be focused on the military and not on cultural conflicts, “and yet, here it is in this bill.” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, said his team was not telling Democrats how to vote on the bill. “There's a lot of positive things in the National Defense Authorization Act that were negotiated in a bipartisan way, and there are some troubling provisions in a few areas as well,” Jeffries said. The defense policy bill also looks to strengthen deterrence against China. It calls for investing $15.6 billion to build military capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region. The Biden administration had requested about $10 billion. On Israel, the bill, among other things, includes an expansion of U.S. joint military exercises with Israel and a prohibition on the Pentagon citing casualty data from Hamas. The defense policy bill is one of the final measures that lawmakers view as a must-pass before making way for a new Congress in January.

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Mirella Abou Shanab, a Damascus-based TV presenter and producer, went into a pastry shop in the Syrian capital and saw armed Islamist fighters eating ice cream and cake. One of them turned to her and asked if she was Christian, Druze or Shiite and whether that’s why she wasn’t wearing a veil. “What I worry about is that this time it may be just a question, but next time action will be taken that may endanger my life and that of any girl or woman in Damascus,” she said in a live recording on Facebook late Tuesday, looking distraught and shaken. While Syrians rejoice at the overthrow of ex-President Bashar Assad’s brutal dictatorship last weekend, concerns are mounting inside and outside the Arab nation at the pivotal role played by the one-time al-Qaida affiliate that led the rebel offensive — and what they will do in power. The new interim government, set to remain in place until March 1, is under the control of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, or HTS, an Islamist group designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. and other countries. Its leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa, known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammed Al-Jolani, has sought to project a moderate image, and his interim prime minister has already met with foreign envoys in Damascus to promise a political transition. “With this lighting war, thanks be to God almighty, we saved Syria and the entire region from an existential threat to many components of Syria’s population,” said Al-Jolani on Wednesday, seated on the carpeted floor of the Imam Shafiee Mosque, where he preached 20 years ago. “Syria faced the threat of partition,” he added, referring to Kurdish and Druze communities, who have sought autonomy in the east and south of Syria, respectively. There are also deep religious fault lines. Syria’s population of about 24 million — half of which is displaced internally or has taken refuge in neighboring states — is nearly 70 percent Sunni Muslim and the rest is a mix of other faiths, including Christianity. To allay fears, HTS commanders started an outreach in the capital and other major cities, holding meetings with community leaders, including members of non-Muslim groups. The militant group also issued a statement, prohibiting its fighters from interfering in personal liberties, particularly those of women. “There is no reason for fear,” said Father Arsanios Lahham after a meeting with HTS commanders in the western coastal city of Tartous on Wednesday. But Israel, for one, remains distrustful, mounting one of the biggest air attacks in its history to destroy as much as possible of the Syrian military’s capability. The country’s fighter planes have targeted chemical-weapons stocks, missile-storage sites and airbases and ships that might have been laden with weapons, looking to prevent them from falling into militant hands. It also said it captured Syrian army tanks and weapons on Wednesday during a land incursion. While the massive Israeli airstrikes have drawn Arab ire, the U.S. says it supports the Syrian neighbor’s right to protect its borders. The “jury is out” on HTS and Jolani, Mike Waltz, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming national security advisor, said in a Fox News interview on Monday. “He’s not, at least so far, beheading former Assad regime officials or hanging them from bridges. They do seem to be sitting and talking, which is a very good initial first sign.” “But President Trump and our team are watching very closely,” he added. Islamic rule In a CNN interview last week, Jolani didn’t rule out introducing Islamic rule in Syria. “People who fear Islamic governance either have seen incorrect implementations of it or do not understand it properly,” he said. He rejected fears about the future of Syria’s minorities, saying they “have existed for hundreds of years and no one has the right to eliminate them.” Inside Syria, suspicion of HTS has grown since Jolani abruptly fired the last Assad-appointed prime minister, after initially saying he should remain in place in an interim capacity. His replacement is Mohammed Al Bashir, who previously ran a quasi-government in the northwestern rebel stronghold of Idlib. Jolani appears to have sidelined other armed factions, including more moderate fighters from the south who were the first to enter Damascus on Saturday evening, sparking fears of looming infighting. The outgoing Biden administration, which is claiming Assad’s ouster as a geopolitical win as it weakens the clout of the former Syrian dictator’s Iranian and Russian allies, has so far taken a relatively neutral stance. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington could recognize a new Syrian government that respects minorities and destroys stocks of chemical and biological weapons. And the State Department said Monday the terrorist designation doesn’t bar U.S. officials from speaking to leaders of HTS. But it’s also worried about a potential resurgence of Islamic State, or ISIS, the U.S.-designated terrorist group that took advantage of the early years of the Syrian civil war to conquer large swathes of territory in the east of the country and neighboring Iraq. The U.S., which helped beat back the group toward the end of last decade, launched about 75 airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria over the weekend. Complicating the picture is Turkey’s insistence on the withdrawal of U.S.-backed Kurdish armed fighters in northeast Syria, who it considers terrorists because of their links to separatists fighting for autonomy in Turkey’s southeast. The Kurdish militia is a key ally in the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State and is helping guard prisons filled with the group’s fighters. The presence of 900 U.S. troops in Syria has helped to protect the Kurds, but there’s a chance Trump removes those forces as part of his drive to end U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts. Rebel groups backed by Turkey have already pushed Kurdish forces out of two northern Syrian towns. “The worst case scenario is Syria becomes the Somalia of the Middle East,” said retired Brig. Gen. Nitzan Nuriel, who used to head the counter-terrorism department in the office of the Israeli Prime Minister. “Based on the experience in Afghanistan and Libya, we know that when regimes collapse and terror groups take over, there is a big chance they will take the ammunition systems and platforms and use them against neighbor states.” A probe into potential Syrian nuclear-weapons activities has been interrupted by the ouster of Assad, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday, creating uncertainty for inspectors. Many foreign-based Syrian opposition leaders, who have misgivings about Jolani’s first moves, are engaging with the rebels on the ground to try to shape what comes next. “These are birth pains, it will take time,” said Ayman Abdel Nour, a Washington-based Syrian political opposition figure and commentator.MANAMA, Bahrain — Iran is poised to “quite dramatically” increase its stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium as it has started cascades of advanced centrifuges, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned Friday. The comments from Rafael Mariano Grossi came just hours after Iran said it conducted a successful space launch with its heaviest payload ever, the latest for its program that the West alleges improves Tehran’s ballistic missile program. The launch of the Simorgh rocket comes as Iran’s nuclear program now enriches uranium at 60%, a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90%. While Iran maintains its program is peaceful, officials in the Islamic Republic increasingly threaten to potentially seek the bomb and an intercontinental ballistic missile that would allow Tehran to use the weapon against distant foes like the United States. The moves are likely to further raise tensions gripping the wider Middle East over Israel’s continued war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip and as an uneasy ceasefire holds in Lebanon. However, Iran may as well be preparing the ground for possible talks with the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, who in his first term unilaterally withdrew America from Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers. Grossi, speaking to journalists in Bahrain, on the sidelines of the International Institute of Strategic Studies’ Manama Dialogue, said his inspectors planned to see just how many centrifuges Iran would be spinning after Tehran informed his agency of its plans. Get the latest breaking news as it happens. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy . “I think it is very concerning,” Grossi said. “They were preparing and they have all of these facilities sort of in abeyance and now they are activating that. So we are going to see.” He added: “If they really make them turn — all of them — it's going to be a huge jump.” An IAEA statement issued shortly after Grossi's remarks said Iran had begun feeding two cascades of advanced IR-6 centrifuges with uranium previously enriched up to 20% at its underground Fordo facility. That site is located under a mountain, protecting it from airstrikes. Cascades are a group of centrifuges that spin uranium gas together to more quickly enrich the uranium. The IR-6 centrifuges enrich uranium faster than Iran’s baseline IR-1 centrifuges, which have been the workhorse of the country’s atomic program. Adding 20% uranium, as opposed to 5% uranium previously planned, further speeds up that process. “The facility’s updated design information showed that the effect of this change would be to significantly increase the rate of production,” the IAEA statement said. Iran separately will start feeding natural uranium into eight other IR-6 cascades at Fordo as well to produce 5%-enriched uranium, it added. The IAEA warned in late November that Iran was preparing to begin enriching uranium with thousands of advanced centrifuges. That came as a response to the Board of Governors at the IAEA condemning Iran for failing to cooperate fully with the agency. Iran did not immediately acknowledge the preparations. The Iranian mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Meanwhile, the launch Friday took place at Iran’s Imam Khomeini Spaceport in rural Semnan province, some 135 miles. That is the site of Iran’s civilian space program, which has suffered a series of failed Simorgh launches in the past. The Simorgh carried what Iran described as an “orbital propulsion system,” as well as two research systems to a 250-mile orbit above the Earth. A system that could change the orbit of a spacecraft would allow Iran to geo-synchronize the orbits of its satellites, a capability Tehran has long sought. It also carried the Fakhr-1 satellite for Iran’s military, the first time Iran’s civilian program is known to have carried a military payload. Iran also put the payload of the Simorgh at 660 pounds, heavier than all its previous successful launches within the country. State television carried footage of a correspondent discussing the payload just as the Simorgh lifted off into the sky, as people called out: “God is the greatest!” The U.S. military referred questions about the launch to the country’s Space Command, which did not respond. Space experts said tracking data appeared to show the launch successfully put objects in orbit. The United States has previously said Iran’s satellite launches defy a United Nations Security Council resolution and called on Tehran to undertake no activity involving ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons. U.N. sanctions related to Iran’s ballistic missile program expired in October 2023. “Iran’s work on space-launch vehicles — including its Simorgh — probably would shorten the timeline to produce an intercontinental ballistic missile, if it decided to develop one, because the systems use similar technologies,” a U.S. intelligence community report released in July said. Iran has always denied seeking nuclear weapons and says its space program, like its nuclear activities, is for purely civilian purposes. However, U.S. intelligence agencies and the IAEA say Iran had an organized military nuclear program up until 2003. Under Iran’s relatively moderate former President Hassan Rouhani, the Islamic Republic slowed its space program for fear of raising tensions with the West. The late hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi, a protégé of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who came to power in 2021, pushed the program forward. Raisi died in a helicopter crash in May. Iran’s reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian, who has been signaling he wants to negotiate with the West over sanctions, has yet to offer a strategy when it comes to Iran’s ambitions in space. The Simorgh launch represented the first for his administration from the country’s civil space program. Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard conducted a successful launch of its parallel program in September.