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FILE - This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. Across the broad swath of territory it controls from northern Syria through northern and western Iraq, the extremist group known as the Islamic State has proven to be highly organized governors.
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John Brennan slams Trump’s ‘policy by tweet’ over Syria

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In this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, Turkish and U.S. troops conduct joint patrols around the Syrian town of Manbij, as part of an agreement that aimed to ease tensions between the two NATO allies. Turkish officials say U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed Syria and agreed to maintain "close contacts" concerning bilateral and regional issues in a telephone call on Thursday.
National Security

Pentagon confirms US troops ‘coming home’ from Syria

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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., right, confers with committee member Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., on Capitol Hill in D.C.
Foreign Policy

Senate leaders blindsided by Trump’s Syria withdrawal

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A Syrian soldier stands guard inside a destroyed apartment in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018. Bulldozers and trucks are working to clear tons of rubble from the main streets. The camp, once home to the largest concentration of Palestinians outside the territories housing nearly 160,000 people, has been gutted by years of war.
Beltway Confidential

Trump, Syria, and a ludicrous holiday gift to America’s enemies

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Brett McGurk, U.S. envoy for the global coalition against ISIS, speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017.
Foreign Policy

Trump’s special envoy for Syria flatly contradicted him last week: ‘Reckless’ to declare victory and leave

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Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to media about the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 28, 2018. The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court after agreeing to a late call from Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., for a one week investigation into sexual assault allegations against the high court nominee.
National Security

Lindsey Graham calls Syria withdrawal an ‘Obama-like mistake’

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A U.S. soldier sits in an armored vehicle on a road leading to the tense front line with Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. President Donald Trump expects to decide "very quickly" whether to remove U.S. troops from war-torn Syria, saying their primary mission was to defeat the Islamic State group and "we've almost completed that task."
Foreign Policy

Trump declares victory over ISIS, to order total withdrawal of US troops from Syria

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A Syrian Soldier rides his scooter as helps a woman to through a devastated part of the in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018. The camp, once home to the largest concentration of Palestinians outside the territories housing nearly 160,000 people, has been gutted by years of war.
Foreign Policy

ISIS nearing its ‘end days’ in Syria

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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.
Foreign Policy

Born in Belgium, raised in ISIS: ‘I want to come home’

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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.
Beltway Confidential

Confront Turkey’s ethnic cleansing and stop indulging it

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