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Federal Iraqi security forces gather outside the Kurdish hold City of Altun Kupri, outskirts of Irbil, Iraq, Thursday Oct. 19. 2017. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Iraq may have just turned the corner from chaos to stability

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Simply put, Spain is getting a taste of its own medicine. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Spain gets what it deserves on Catalonia’s separatism

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Photos, documentaries, and other media capturing Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's elite Qods Force, push the message Iran's role is more pervasive and effective than it actually may be.
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Why is Iranian master terrorist Qassem Soleimani distributing photos of himself in Iraq?

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The events of the last week weakened Iran's real proxies among Iraqi politicians tremendously. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Take it from me: Kirkuk was not an Iranian defeat of America

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This image made from a video provided by RUDAW TV shows what the Irbil-based Kurdish broadcaster says are Peshmerga fighters and volunteers arriving on military trucks in Kirkuk, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. (RUDAW TV via AP)
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Kurds must know rhetoric can never substitute for reality

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Against the backdrop of the Kirkuk crisis, it was Qassem Soleimani who brokered a deal between the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Shiite militias, and the Iraqi federal government to avoid bloodshed. (AP Photo/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)
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Iran’s real foreign minister isn’t who you think it is

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Harvard University will host a panel Monday with four former Obama administration officials. It seems at Harvard that racial and gender diversity are the end-all and be-all defining perspectives, but there is no quarter given to ideological diversity. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Harvard demonstrates what’s wrong with universities in one single-minded panel

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Barriers with defaced Kurdish flags are seen outside of an evacuated checkpoint in the village of Bashir, south of Kirkuk, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 13, 2017. Kurdish forces have withdrawn from the edges of a disputed region in northern Iraq, a commander said Friday, amid tensions with Iraq's central government over the administration of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. The sentence on the barrier in Arabic reads:
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As chaos develops, what went wrong in Kirkuk, Iraq?

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President Trump has pilloried the Iran nuclear deal he inherited as
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Should Trump re-certify the Iran Deal?

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Former Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamad Javad Zarif, and European Union foreign policy boss Federica Mogherini are odds-on favorites to win the prize. (AP Photo/John McConnico, File)
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Top 10 Nobel Peace Prize embarrassments

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