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Trump is applauding Russia's victory in Syria after handing it to them on a...
President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw US forces from northeast Syria has pushed formerly US-allied Kurdish forces into the arms of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russia. Trump is...
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3 myths about the US and the Kurds
President Donald Trump's decision to relocate US troops in Syria attracted immediate backlash in the US and around the world.Much of that criticism centers on the apparent abandonment of US-backed...
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Trump's coziness with authoritarians is backfiring spectacularly in Syria
President Donald Trump's tendency to cozy up to authoritarians has backfired in a major way in Syria. Trump's controversial relationships with autocratic leaders have rarely sparked immediate...
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Trump's sanctions against Turkey won't do anything to stop its invasion of...
US sanctions have gone into effect against Turkey nearly a week after it began air and ground operations in northeastern Syria. The sanctions — against Turkey's steel exports to the US and putting the...
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Turkey's president pulled one over on Trump — and some of the US's most...
President Donald Trump's eagerness to withdraw US troops from the Middle East, coupled with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's yearning to subdue an alleged Kurdish threat at his border, seemed...
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In just one week, Trump's Syria retreat has caused the nightmare scenario...
President Donald Trump was warned that if he withdrew US troops from northern Syria it could have catastrophic consequences. Less than a week after Turkey invaded, the nightmare scenario Trump was...
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Long before the US pulled out, Kurds in Syria were keeping back channels to...
Despite their longtime partnership with the US, Kurdish fighters in Syria were wary of abandonment.Those fighters opened a backchannel with Russia and the Syrian government in 2018 and used it this...
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Pete Buttigieg and Tulsi Gabbard, the only military vets on the Democratic...
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii had a heated exchange over the circumstances that led to President Donald Trump's decision to abandon the US-allied Kurds in...
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Trump's presidency is disintegrating as he faces his worst 30 days since...
The past month has been the worst stretch of time in Donald Trump's entire presidency.In foreign policy, Trump has sparked bipartisan outrage by pulling US troops out of northeastern Syria, effectively...
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Turkey's President Erdogan snubbed a meeting with Pence and Pompeo over...
A US delegation, including Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is going to Turkey on Wednesday to ask its president for a ceasefire in northern Syria.But Turkish President...
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US troops and their allies feel humiliated after abandoning their bases in...
Russian troops and Syrian forces swiftly took over at least three recently abandoned US camps in northern Syria this week.Russian mercenaries splashed their good fortune over social media and took...
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Russian media footage shows the inside of an abandoned US base in Syria, with...
A video appears to show an abandoned US army base in the city of Manbij, Syria where items such as half-eaten food, beds, and a copy of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" have been left behind. The...
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Trump defends his Syria retreat as 'strategically brilliant,' saying the...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the Kurds were "not angels" as he defended his decision to withdraw US troops from northeastern Syria.Trump's Syria retreat opened the door for a Turkish...
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Trump's withdrawal from Kurdish region has opened the door to a new wave of...
Video of attacks on civilians, apparently by Turkish-backed Syrian forces, including a Kurdish politician, have raised the spectre of war crimes in the border conflict between Turkey and Kurdish-led...
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Trump is parroting Vladimir Putin's talking points as he defends pulling US...
President Donald Trump has been embroiled in a firestorm of controversy in Washington over his decision last week to abruptly yank out US troops from northern Syria.In a White House press conference...
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Pelosi said Trump had a 'meltdown' after the House overwhelmingly voted to...
President Donald Trump had a "meltdown" during a meeting with Democratic leaders on Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters. Trump was particularly upset by growing bipartisan opposition...
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A top senator says Trump’s Syria retreat and the Ukraine scandal may have...
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, one of the top voices on foreign policy in Congress, said that America's reputation might never recover from the consequences of President Donald Trump's Syria...
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US troops bombed their own anti-ISIS headquarters as Turkey-backed fighters...
US forces destroyed the headquarters of their anti-ISIS efforts in Syria on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reports. Turkish-backed Syrian forces advanced on the position, despite a US show of...
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Trump reportedly called Jim Mattis the 'world's most overrated general' in a...
President Donald Trump belittled his former defense secretary, Jim Mattis, by characterizing him as the "world's most overrated general," according to a Washington Post report published Wednesday.Trump...
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'It's utterly pathetic': Democratic lawmakers are flabbergasted by Trump's...
President Donald Trump's letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan caught the attention of Democratic lawmakers, who quickly compared it to "a joke.""I don't even know where to start," Rep. Seth...
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