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American indecision prompts regional confusion
TUNIS - Conflicting messages over the United States’ commitment to its Syria mission has potentially undermined its partnership with Syria’s Kurds and emboldened regional riva...
By Nicholas Heras
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Syria Blames Israel for Deadly Strikes on Airbase
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Syria and its Russian ally accused Israel on Monday of carrying out a deadly dawn bombing raid on a military airbase, as global outrage mounted over an alleged poison gas atta...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump Just Jeopardized America’s Biggest Asset in the Syria War, U.S. Officials Say
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Donald Trump’s outbursts this week about getting U.S. troops out of Syria have done substantial damage to Washington’s influence over its crucial Syrian ally, knowledgeable cu...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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US approves $1.3bn arms sale to Saudi including howitzers
The US government announced on Thursday its approval of a $1.3 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia providing a full howitzer artillery system, which according to experts would b...
By Nicholas Heras
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Syria: What Trump is signaling to Mideast allies and foes about US priorities
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APRIL 5, 2018 —Late last year Secretary of Defense James Mattis laid out the details of a plan that would see the United States remaining in Syria well into the future – after...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump decides to keep US troops in Syria for now, signaling Pentagon win
U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to keep U.S. troops in Syria, the White House announced, an apparent win for military commanders who warned against drawing down the Am...
By Nicholas Heras
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White House says anti-IS fight in Syria ‘coming to rapid end’
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WASHINGTON — A day after President Donald Trump said he wanted to bring US troops home from Syria, the White House announced that the US-led coalition will complete its missio...
By Nicholas Heras
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Counter-IS officials temper Trump’s rush to pull out of Syria
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US officials in charge of the fight against the Islamic State (IS) warned today that the American-led coalition’s hard-fought gains could yet be reversed as President Donald T...
By Nicholas Heras
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US, Turkey on collision course in Syria's Manbij
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The United States and Turkey are on a collision course in northern Syria, threatening to ignite a dangerous new phase in the Syrian civil war, undermine the fight against the ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Syria's army vows to finish off last rebels outside Damascus
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Syria's army promised Saturday to finish off fighters in the final opposition holdout of devastated Eastern Ghouta outside Damascus after a penultimate pocket was declared "em...
By Nicholas Heras
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What's left of Daesh in Syria
The Islamic State militant group, whose self-proclaimed "caliphate" disintegrated last year, still controls pockets of territory in Syria. The organisation's fighters even too...
By Nicholas Heras
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Congress: We Can’t Stop Trump From Killing the Iran Deal
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Key lawmakers are predicting that President Donald Trump will pull the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal later this spring. And although there is an appetite on Capit...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Turkish leader vows wider offensive against Kurdish militia
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BEIRUT — Turkey’s president vowed Monday to keep up the pressure against a U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militia after his troops captured the Syrian town of Afrin, threatening t...
By Nicholas Heras
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What does Turkey's seizure of Afrin mean for Syria war?
The capture of Afrin from the Kurds by Turkish-led fighters on Sunday could have major repercussions for Syria's protracted war. Here we look at what it means for Turkey, the ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Omar Alloush – murdered for building a shared future for Syria’s Arabs and Kurds?
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – On Wednesday evening, Omar Alloush, the co-head of Raqqa Civil Council’s Public Relations Committee and a member of the Syrian Democratic Cou...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump Chose Pompeo as Kindred Spirit to Take Over U.S. Diplomacy
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Mike Pompeo had an audition for his new job as secretary of state just about every morning at the White House, where the CIA director gave President Donald Trump his top-secre...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Senior Kurdish official, key to US policy in Syria, killed
BEIRUT — A senior Kurdish official who played a key role with the United States in implementing its post-Islamic State group policy in northern Syria has been found dead in hi...
By Nicholas Heras
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After seven years of war in Syria, is a diplomatic solution still possible?
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Wednesday marks the seventh anniversary of the ongoing civil war in Syria, and as casualties continue to mount, an end does not appear to be in sight. The United Nations Secur...
By Nicholas Heras
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7 years on, Syria war shifting gears but still deadly
Syria enters its eighth year of war on Thursday, free of the jihadist "caliphate" but torn apart by an international power struggle as the regime presses its blistering reconq...
By Nicholas Heras
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Who is Mike Pompeo, President Trump’s pick for secretary of state?
WASHINGTON — Mike Pompeo, the current CIA director who President Donald Trump has picked to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state, is known for both his close ties with ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
