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Syria likely responsible for chemical attack condemned by President Trump
U.S. radar showed Syrian warplanes in the vicinity of the suspected chemical-weapon attack that killed dozens of people in northern Syria on Tuesday, according to a senior Def...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump Says Chemical Attack In Syria Crosses Many Lines
Rachel Martin talks to Michele Flournoy, undersecretary of defense in the Obama administration, about whether Trump has a clear Syria strategy. Listen below or at NPR....
By Michèle Flournoy
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Trump's surprisingly conventional Israel policy
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s mantra, throughout his career, has been never to give an inch without getting an inch in return. But last week he announced that Is...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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US praises SDF forces in Syria, calls Turkey ‘great partner’
Top US General Joseph Votel on Saturday praised the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the fight against ISIS extremists in Syria. Vote also called Turkey “a great ...
By Nicholas Heras
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How the US should approach ISIS’ human shield strategy in Raqqah
As local ground forces supported by U.S. led airstrikes close in on two of the Islamic State’s urban holds, Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq, there’s growing concern over how ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Trump Turns Away From Iraq’s Coming Storm
The Trump administration has indicated it plans to largely abdicate a U.S. role in Iraq's political future, despite the certainty that driving the Islamic State group from its...
By Nicholas Heras
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US-led coalition has no intention to create federal Kurdish state in Syria: official
The top U.S. ground commander in Iraq Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend told reporters on Tuesday the US-led coalition had no intention to create a Kurdish federal state in northern S...
By Nicholas Heras
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Turkey-backed rebels join anti-regime offensive in Syria’s Hama
More than 500 pro-Turkey rebel fighters from the Euphrates Shield operation joined operations against the Syrian army in Hama city, local sources reported on Friday. Syrian re...
By Nicholas Heras
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Anti-ISIS Offensive Delayed By Infighting
The U.S. had to step into northern Syria recently to keep two factions it supports from fighting with each other. They're supposed to be fighting ISIS. Listen below or at NPR....
By Nicholas Heras
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Iraq PM visits White House amid debate over post-Mosul strategy
As Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi visits Washington and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hosts some 68 counterparts for a counter-Islamic State (IS) summit in Washington...
By Nicholas Heras
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CNAS Press Note: The 68-Nation Counter-ISIS Ministerial
With representatives from 68 nations set to meet in Washington today to discuss efforts to defeat ISIS and stabilize the areas ISIS controlled after they have been liberated, ...
By Nicholas Heras
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Rex Tillerson’s Dangerous Silence
Not long after President Obama’s second inauguration, I walked down 23rd Street in Foggy Bottom toward my new office in the State Department. I was a couple of days from start...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Middle East Security Advisor Ilan Goldenberg: ‘The Iran Deal Is The Foreign Policy Equivalent Of Obamacare’
“You can rail against it, but it’s really hard to untangle.” That was the expert opinion of Ilan Goldenberg at a blunt and unsparing, exclusive interview during last month’s a...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Marines sent to Syria. Can US withstand pull of expanded military conflict?
The 400 Marines dispatched to northern Syria last week to back up US-trained rebel forces battling the so-called Islamic State were plunked down into a war of acute risk and g...
By Nicholas Heras
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US puts off announcing decision on Raqqa until after Turkey referendum
The Trump administration’s internal debate over how to capture Raqqa, the so-called capital of the Islamic State (IS), is continuing nearly two weeks after the Pentagon presen...
By Nicholas Heras
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Cooperation with Russia in Syria Off the Table for Trump Team
President Donald Trump's national security team is not considering any increase in cooperation with Russia against the Islamic State group in Syria, according to multiple curr...
By Julianne Smith
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The Military Strategy Behind Bolstering U.S.-Backed Syrian Forces To Fight ISIS
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In Syria, twin bombings on Saturday killed dozens of people in the capital Damascus. Militants say they were targeting allies of President Bashar al-Assad. The bloodshed came ...
By Michèle Flournoy
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The U.S. Troop Presence in Syria Is at Its Highest Ever. But How Long Are They on the Ground for and Why?
The Trump Administration is intensifying America’s involvement in the ground war in Syria, having announced on March 9 that it is sending 400 more troops to join the fight aga...
By Nicholas Heras
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Manbij and the Unforgiving Complexity of the Syrian War
Top U.S. defense officials believe all of the warring parties in Manbij got the message after American forces deployed an armored convoy through the Syrian city earlier this w...
By Julianne Smith
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IS Leaders Reportedly Fleeing Syrian De Facto Capital
Islamic State reportedly has moved some of its high-ranking commanders and their families from its de facto capital of Raqqa to the nearby Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, activ...
By Nicholas Heras
