TASK DEFINITION: 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].
PROBLEM: (CNN) US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in an interview that aired Sunday on CNN that until Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is out of power, she doesn't see a political solution to the conflict in Syria. "There's not any sort of option where a political solution is going to happen with Assad at the head of the regime," Haley told "State of the Union" anchor Jake Tapper. "It just -- if you look at his actions, if you look at the situation, it's going to be hard to see a government that's peaceful and stable with Assad.""It's going to be hard to see a government that's peaceful and stable with Assad," Haley said"If he needs to do more, he will do more," Haley said when asked if Trump would order more strikes 
 Question:President _ ordered the strike in response to a chemical weapons attack against civilians earlier in the week, which US officials say was carried out by the Assad government.

SOLUTION: Trump

PROBLEM: Palmyra, Syria (CNN) When does it take almost seven hours, several armored vehicles and attack helicopters to get to a classical concert? The answer: When you have to travel through half of Syria and the concert is held in a newly liberated area with ISIS nearby. The Russian military put around 100 journalists on five buses, sent a convoy of armored vehicles and fighting vehicles and drove the reporters from Latakia in northwestern Syria to Palmyra, the ancient heritage site in the central desert. As our convoy slowly made its way down the Syrian coast and then made an eastward turn toward Homs and then Palmyra, Russian attack helicopters circled overhead, looking out for any threats.Fred Pleitgen and other journalists attended under Russian military escortThe orchestra performed in a Roman ampitheater, the scene of an ISIS massacre 
 Question:_ TV set up a state of the art stage and broadcast facility, complete with a crane-mounted camera and a drone.

SOLUTION: Russian

PROBLEM: Manila, Philippines (CNN) Two key ISIS-affiliated leaders engaged in a standoff with Philippines forces in the southern city of Marawi have been killed, the country's Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Monday. The two leaders were named as Isnilon Hapilon, who was declared the terror group's emir for Southeast Asia, and Omar Maute, a leader of a local militant group that had pledged allegiance to ISIS. The pair were killed, along with seven other militants, while attempting to exit a building at street level during a four-hour firefight, Gen. Eduardo Ano of the Philippines Armed Forces said at a news conference. Maute was shot in the head by a sniper.Omar Maute and Isnilon Hapilon were both confirmed killedHapilon was declared the ISIS emir for Southeast Asia 
 Question:"The political and military leadership of the _ movement (in the Philippines) has essentially been neutralized," Heydarian told CNN.

SOLUTION:
ISIS