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With ISIS in tatters, Syria Kurds fear US to abandon them
Syria's Kurds fear the steadfast ally they found in the US to successfully take on Islamic State group jihadists may now leave them to face threats from Turkey and Damascus al...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump punted the Iran deal to Congress. Congress just punted it back.
When President Trump decertified the Iran nuclear deal, he was punting the question of whether it should be torn up to Congress. Congress just punted it back to him — and he’s...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Putin boasts about 'defeated ISIS' in Syria as he discloses 'significant' troop withdrawal
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday hailed the defeat of ISIS terrorists in Syria during a visit to the war-torn country and also announced plans to withdraw a "signifi...
By Nicholas Heras
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On Jerusalem, Trump Delivers for Supporters at Home
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's move to recognize the divided city of Jerusalem as Israel's capital may have triggered a worldwide chorus of critics but the president ha...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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A Crisis of Capitals: Recognizing Jerusalem
This week, President Trump announced that the United States is recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. While fulfilling a campaign promise, Ilan Goldenberg, a senior f...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Balance of Power: Trump Defies 70 Years of U.S. Policy on Jerusalem
As a candidate, Donald Trump boasted he could stand on New York’s Fifth Avenue “and shoot somebody” without losing votes. On Saturday, after the Senate passed his tax-cut prop...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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What it means for the U.S. to name Jerusalem as Israeli capital but not move the embassy
President Trump is expected to make a major announcement about Jerusalem on Wednesday, potentially upending years of U.S. foreign policy with a move likely to please the Israe...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump’s Jerusalem moves spark a fire in the Middle East
There is a small constituency in the United States that genuinely cares about the location of the American Embassy in Israel. Evangelicals and a right-wing, pro-Israel lobby w...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump’s Jerusalem Decision Has No Upside
On Tuesday, President Trump told Israeli and Palestinians leaders that the U.S. would be recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. It is looking very likely that he will...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Islamic State’s ‘caliphate’ has been toppled in Iraq and Syria. Why isn’t anyone celebrating?
BAGHDAD — Every day for more than three years, the U.S.-led coalition bombed Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria, for a total of nearly 30,000 strikes. But on Nov. 26, not...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump administration considers moving U.S. embassy in Israel
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering moving the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem ahead of a legislative deadline this week, a move that would ...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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The U.S. Moves Its Embassy to Jerusalem
Press Note
There are a number of reports in the American and Israeli press indicating that the White House is seriously considering moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Th...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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We'll take Pompeo over Tillerson, frustrated diplomats say
Mike Pompeo may have a partisan reputation, hawkish instincts and little diplomatic experience, but morale at the State Department is so low that many career diplomats would b...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Tillerson under pressure after White House plan leaks
Rex Tillerson’s days at the State Department appear to be numbered. Speculation about Tillerson’s future as secretary of State reached a fever pitch on Thursday after multipl...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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White House considering recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital soon
The Trump administration is seriously considering recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in early December, even as President Donald Trump signs a waiver to keep the e...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ moment
After major losses in Syria and Iraq, the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS) is seen as a diminishing threat — and President Donald Trump has declared the armed group defeat...
By Nicholas Heras
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Has Trump Ditched the Kurdish Fighters Who Defeated ISIS? Maybe Not.
ERBIL, Iraq—After U.S. President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, talked on the phone last Friday, Erdogan’s foreign minister announced the Amer...
By Nicholas Heras
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U.S. moves toward open-ended presence in Syria after Islamic State is routed
The Trump administration is expanding its goals in Syria beyond routing the Islamic State to include a political settlement of the country’s civil war, a daunting and potentia...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump cedes Syrian postwar planning to Putin
WASHINGTON — Six months after President Donald Trump ordered an airstrike against a Syrian government airbase, an act his aides said would give the U.S. renewed leverage acros...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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US-backed Forces Deny They Allowed IS Fighters to Evacuate Raqqa
Officials of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are dismissing claims they brokered a covert deal with the Islamic State last month to allow safe passage to hundre...
By Nicholas Heras
