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U.S.-Led Coalition Blocks Russia in Syria While Allowing Turkey to Terrorize the Kurds
The Trump administration is using firepower to block Iran and Russia from coming up from the south while ignoring the pleas of the Kurds to stop a Turkish invasion from the no...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump claim to Syrian oil raises many questionsBy claiming a right to Syria’s oil, President Donald Trump has added more complexity — as well as additional U.S. forces and time — to an American military mission he has twic...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Technology & National Security
A Tech Group Suggests Limits for the Pentagon’s Use of AIThe Pentagon says artificial intelligence will help the US military become still more powerful. On Thursday, an advisory group including executives from Google, Microsoft, and...
By Paul Scharre
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India Will Have a Say in Whether China Dominates 5G
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Will Huawei Technologies build India’s 5G wireless networks? In the technological cold war between the U.S. and China, India—the world’s second-largest wireless market by numb...
By Rush Doshi
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Thousands of civilians flee Turkish attacks despite ceasefire deal
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Heavy attacks on Wednesday by Turkish-backed groups near Dirbasiya and Til Tamr displaced thousands of civilians despite the Russian-Turkish ceasefire agreed to last week. “T...
By Nicholas Heras
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US secrecy on Baghdadi raid exposes distrust of NATO ally Turkey
Islamic State (IS) group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was found and killed over the weekend in northern Syria just a few miles from the Turkish border in a US raid that evaded t...
By Nicholas Heras
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Comments on Seizing Syria Oil Reinforces Anti-American Sentiment, Experts Warn
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While U.S. President Donald Trump this week reiterated his administration's intention to keep some American troops in Syria to control the country's eastern oilfields, experts...
By Nicholas Heras
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The Shady Cryptocurrency Boom on the Post-Soviet Frontier
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At the edge of a lake on a fault line of the new Cold War stands a building that, depending on how you look at it, is either a relic of a failed revolution or the beating hear...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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As Kurds Tracked ISIS Leader, U.S. Withdrawal Threw Raid Into Turmoil
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When the international manhunt for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, zoomed in on a village in northwestern Syria, the United States turned to its local a...
By Nicholas Heras
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U.S. Pushes Skeptical Allies to Step Up ISIS Fight in Syria
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Less than two days after a U.S. special operations raid led to the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, State and Defense Department officials are p...
By Jim Townsend
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ISIS Leader Killed on Turkey’s Doorstep
President Donald Trump broke up three weeks of dismal news about Syria with cause for celebration in both America and the Middle East. ISIS (Islamic State) leader Abu Bakr al-...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump, Pentagon Diverge on Need to Control Syrian Oil Fields
Pentagon leaders and President Donald Trump diverged Monday on the rationale behind keeping U.S. forces in northeastern Syria, with the president renewing his insistence that ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Technology & National Security
As AI joins battlefield, Pentagon seeks ethicistWhen the chief of the Pentagon’s new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center briefed reporters recently, he made a point of emphasizing the imminently practical – even potentiall...
By Paul Scharre
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As Russia makes 2020 play, Democratic campaigns say they are in the dark, and experts fear U.S. elections are vulnerable
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Several Democratic presidential campaigns targeted by a Russia-based operation on Facebook’s popular Instagram app said they had been unaware of the new foreign disinformation...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Technology & National Security
How Commandos Could Quickly Confirm They Got Their TargetWhen President Trump announced on Sunday morning that a Special Operations forces raid had resulted in the death of the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, he said two ...
By Kara Frederick
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US Humanitarian Trade Channel for Iran Gets Positive British Response
A U.S. proposal to boost global humanitarian trade with Iran in accordance with U.S. sanctions has sparked a positive British response and a debate about whether the plan’s go...
By Peter Harrell
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Europe can’t fill the U.S. void in Syria
“I thought that the United States and Turkey were in NATO, and then I discovered by tweet that the U.S. had decided to withdraw its troops and pave the way [for Turkey to laun...
By Jim Townsend
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Trump decided to leave troops in Syria after conversations about oil, officials say
President Trump was persuaded to leave at least several hundred troops behind in Syria only when he was told that his decision to pull them out would risk control of oil field...
By Nicholas Heras
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Protecting oil: Trump's latest Syria strategy under question
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After abruptly pulling US troops who protected Kurdish fighters, President Donald Trump has identified protecting oil as the new goal in Syria. But experts question if the new...
By Nicholas Heras
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Soldiers, Bradley armored vehicles in Kuwait eyed for deployment to Syria
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The Pentagon is planning to send soldiers and Bradley armored vehicles based in Kuwait to guard Syrian oil fields from ISIS fighters, according to a U.S. official. The deploy...
By Nicholas Heras
