In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

[Q]: Washington (CNN) Sen. Marco Rubio, a longtime hawk on Syria, praised the US airstrike on a Syrian airfield days after a chemical attack on innocents attributed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Following news that President Donald Trump had green-lit the US action, Rubio said Thursday on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" that Russia could not fairly criticize the military strike because Russia backed Assad -- who is accused of perpetrating the attack on his own people. "They have no standing to say anything about this," Rubio said of the Russians. He said that the move doesn't just send a message, but amounts to a "significant degrading" of Assad's ability to carry out chemical attacks.Rubio said Russians had put themselves into harm's wayHe said the strikes indicated a firm US stance against Assad's reign 
 Question:"I'll let them speak for their policy, but tonight's actions show that the days of being able to act with impunity are over when it comes to _-Assad," Rubio said.
[A]: Bashar al


[Q]: (CNN) Turkey has blocked access to Wikipedia over linking the nation to terror activity, the government said Saturday, according to state-run Anadolu Agency. Articles and comments on the popular online encyclopedia showed Turkey "in coordination and aligned" with terrorist groups, the Turkish Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications said. "It has become part of an information source which is running a smear campaign against Turkey in the international arena," the ministry said. Turkey warned Wikipedia to remove such content, but the nonprofit encyclopedia refused, the government said. Once Wikipedia meets Turkey's demands, the access ban will be lifted, it said.Ankara says Wikipedia portrays Turkey as coordinating with terrorist groupsTurkish government says access ban will be lifted once Wikipedia meets its demands 
 Question:Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports _, said it is "actively working with outside counsel to seek judicial review of the decision affecting access to Wikipedia."
[A]: Wikipedia


[Q]: President Barack Obama said today that U.S. government will not prosecute families who try to pay ransom to win the release of American hostages held by militant groups overseas. 'No family of an American hostage has ever been paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones,' he said as he announced the results of a six-month review of how the government works with families of hostages. 'The last thing that we should ever do is to add to a family's pain with threats like that.' Some families of U.S. hostages, especially those who have been killed by hostage takers in captivity, have been sharply critical of U.S. government policies toward handling hostage situations, prompting the review.President announced the results of a six-month review of how the government works with families of hostagesObama reiterated his position today that the federal government will not make concessions to terrorists, monetary or otherwiseDOJ won't prosecute families that do, howeverSome families of U.S. hostages have been sharply critical of U.S. government policies - Obama promised today to 'do better'Some 30 Americans are still being held hostage overseas;  roughly 80 have been abducted since 9/11 
 Question:The terrorists, he said, should know that 'anyone who harms _ is that we do not forget.
[A]:
American