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Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim arrives in Washington, late Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. Yildirim is in the United States to meet U.S. Vice President Mike Pence for talks aimed at mending frayed ties between the two NATO allies, including over Turkish demands for the extradition U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is blamed for last year's failed coup, and Washington's backing of Syrian Kurdish militia, whom Turkey considers to be terrorists. (Pool via AP)
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The Trump administration is welcoming the Turkish prime minister when he deserves a cold shoulder

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Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a criminal. Our foreign policy should treat him as such.
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Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a criminal. Our foreign policy should treat him as such.

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They came under fire during a joint reconnaissance patrol with Nigerien forces in southwest Niger, which borders Mali, Chad, and Nigeria. (iStock)
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Is the Pentagon really going to excuse strategic and financial incompetence, all while bolstering China?

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The CIA has released the bulk of the Osama bin Laden documents, which show just how deep Iran-al Qaeda links are. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File)
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The real scandal of the declassified Osama bin Laden trove implicates Obama and the CIA

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An Iraqi soldier inspects a recently-discovered train tunnel, adorned with an Islamic State group flag, that belonged to the former Baghdad to Mosul line, that was turned it to a training camp for IS fighters, in western Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, March 1. 2017.
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Why is YouTube undercutting anti-ISIS efforts?

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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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