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Fighters with Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, wave Iraqi flags while mourners and family members prepare to bury the body of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iran-backed militias who was killed in a US airstrike in Iraq on Friday, in Wadi al-Salam, or "Valley of Peace" cemetery, during his funeral procession in Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020.
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More trade only finances Iran's regime — sanctions can pressure them

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Visitors look at a display booth for Google at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing, Thursday, April 27, 2017.
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Companies who support dictatorships while bashing America should lose all federal funding

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A small group of Honduran migrants trying to reach the U.S. border walk along train tracks in Trancas Viejas, Veracruz state, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. As a caravan of thousands of Central Americans renewed their slow march toward the U.S. on Wednesday, others chose to travel in smaller groups following routes well-worn by decades of migrants fleeing poverty and violence.
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The caravan’s advocates are destroying immigration and humanitarian law

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Holding a picture of missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, Tawakkol Karman, of Yemen the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 2011, talks to members of the media near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, Friday, Oct. 5, 2018. Khashoggi, a 59-year-old veteran journalist who has lived in self-imposed exile in the U.S. since Prince Mohammed's rise to power, disappeared Oct. 2 while on a visit to the consulate to get paperwork done to be married to his Turkish fiancée.
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Don’t punish the UAE and Bahrain for Saudi misdeeds

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Ali Mohammed, 48, builds an oud, an Arabic instrument related to the lute, at his workshop in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. Mohammed says "the demand for Oud has risen after the defeating of IS in Iraq" he, makes around 400 U.S. dollars by selling one handmade oud every month.
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Iraq has moved on. Will our foreign policy debate?

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President Trump speaks to Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's crown prince, in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday, March 20, 2018.
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On Iran and Saudi Arabia, it shouldn’t be either/or

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Iraqi Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons, hold a poster of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, and chant slogans against the al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, after authorities urged Iraqis to help battle insurgents in 2014.
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Iraq proves the US should stop demonizing Shi’ism and understand it

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FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2014 file photo, a gas flare burns at a gas refinery in the South Pars gas field, on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, in Asalouyeh, Iran. Iran likely will further embrace Beijing as an alternative market for its crude oil and financial transactions amid uncertainty over the nuclear deal. That doesn’t mean China offers a safe haven to Iran without conditions. Analysts say Beijing will try to extract the maximum benefit, and there is growing concern that China may take advantage of Iran.
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Sanctioning Iraq over gas imports from Iran is a mistake

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Members of the Turkish-Arab journalist association hold posters with photos of missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, as they hold a protest near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018. Khashoggi, 59, went missing on Oct 2 while on a visit to the consulate in Istanbul for paperwork to marry his Turkish fiancée. The consulate insists the writer left its premises, contradicting Turkish officials. He had been living since last year in the U.S. in a self-imposed exile, in part due to the rise of Prince Mohammed, the son of King Salman.
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If Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead, is Mohammed bin Salman ‘the world’s most dangerous man?’

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Pompeo said Thursday he is
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Iran-backed terrorism more likely if Mike Pompeo closes Basra consulate

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