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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 Kurdish forces have withdrawn from the edges of a disputed region in northern Iraq, a commander said Friday, amid tensions with Iraq's central government over the administration of the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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Consider Turkey: Under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it has enabled and supplied the Islamic State and al Qaeda-linked groups inside Syria. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
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Pakistan, Qatar, Turkey: Time for Trump’s State Department to call them sponsors of terrorism

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The Iran deal imposed, at best, the 130th most rigorous nonproliferation regime. (Amir Kholousi, ISNA via AP, File)
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Iran nuclear deal defenders claim it’s the most rigorous nuclear deal out there, but the facts say otherwise

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If Israel truly wants to support the Kurds, then Israeli leaders could counsel Kurds on tough choices taken by the nascent Jewish state decades ago. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu is playing a cynical game on the Kurdish referendum

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An Iraqi Kurdish woman casts her ballot during the referendum on independence from Iraq in Irbil, Iraq, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. Iraqi Shiite lawmaker Hakim al-Zamili, says parliament has approved several tough measures in response to the Iraqi Kurds' contentious vote on independence from Baghdad. The referendum on independence is non-binding, but it has strained tensions with Baghdad and regional powers. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Iranian leaders are quietly panicking over the Kurdish referendum

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A street vendor sells Kurdish flags and pro-independence items in central Irbil, 217 milesnorth of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. Iraq's Kurdish region will vote on Monday's referendum for Kurdish independence, a vote dismissed as illegal and destabilizing by the central government and the international community. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Will the Kurdish referendum be followed by Christian and Yezidi referenda?

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