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Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army soldiers celebrate around a statue of Kawa, a mythology figure in Kurdish culture, after they have destroyed it in the city center of Afrin, northwestern Syria, early Sunday, March 18, 2018. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that allied Syrian forces have taken "total" control of the town center of Afrin, the target of a nearly two-month-old Turkish offensive against a Syrian Kurdish militia, which said fighting was still underway. Erdogan said the Turkish flag and the flag of the Syrian opposition fighters have been raised in the town, previously controlled by the Kurdish militia known as the People's Defense Units, or YPG.
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Confront Turkey’s ethnic cleansing and stop indulging it

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April Glaspie, former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, poses for photographers.
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A diplomat just made a crucial ‘April Glaspie’ mistake on Turkey and Syria

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People chant slogans during the Newroz celebrations, marking the start of spring, in Istanbul.
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The State Department shouldn’t target Kurds to appease Turkey

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To respond to China’s artificial islands, it’s time to recognize a real one
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To respond to China’s artificial islands, it’s time to recognize a real one

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Hezbollah supporters wave Hezbollah and Palestinian flags during a demonstration against the Israeli offensive in Gaza near UN headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, on Saturday, November 17, 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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The untold race in the Middle East to be the diplomatic peacemaker

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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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