List of Middle East and North Africa articles
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during their meeting at the G-20 summit in Hamburg on July 8, 2017 / AFP PHOTO / Sputnik / Mikhail KLIMENTIEV (Photo credit should read MIKHAIL KLIMENTIEV/AFP/Getty Images) Iran, Turkey, and Russia Aren’t Natural Friends. It’s Up to the U.S. to Keep It That Way.
One of the more curious and troubling developments in the course of the Syrian civil war has been Turkey's rapprochement with Russia and cooperation with Iran.
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US President Donald Trump walks to the White House in Washington, DC, on August 30, 2017 upon his return from Springfield, Missouri, where he spoke about tax reform. / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) The Iran Deal Is Keeping the Middle East From Going Nuclear. Why Does Trump Want to Blow It Up?
It is the height of irresponsibility for the Trump administration to even consider walking away from the JCPOA.
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TOPSHOT - A US soldier mans a weapon at the tailgate aboard the helicopter carrying US Defence Secretary James Mattis as he arrives at Resolute Support headquarters in the Afghan capital Kabul on April 24, 2017. US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit April 24, an American defence official confirmed, hours after his Afghan counterpart resigned over a deadly Taliban attack. Mattis, making his first visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, was due to meet top officials including President Ashraf Ghani less than two weeks after the US dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on Islamic State hideouts in the country's east. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / JONATHAN ERNST (Photo credit should read JONATHAN ERNST/AFP/Getty Images) -
US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) expresses his condolences over the death the of the mother of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (unseen) before a negotiation session with Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (R) over Iran's nuclear program in Lausanne March 20, 2015, as European Union Political Director Helga Schmid (4-L) looks on. Marathon talks towards an Iran nuclear deal picked up pace as US President Barack Obama appealed to Tehran to seize an "historic" opportunity and begin a "brighter future". AFP PHOTO / POOL /Brian Snyder (Photo credit should read BRIAN SNYDER/AFP/Getty Images) What Would U.S. Withdrawal From the Iran Nuclear Deal Look Like?
The United States must build an international consensus on Iran.
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raqqa1 The U.S. Is in Denial About the Civilians It’s Killing in Syria
The commanding general in the war against the Islamic State is ignoring mounting evidence that the coalition campaign has killed hundreds of innocents.
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Acting Assistant Secretary of State for south and central Asian affairs Alice Wells, and Ambassador of the United States to Sri Lanka and the Maldives Atul Keshap (L) attend a candle light vigil for minority Tamils missing since the end of the island's drawn out Tamil separatist war in May 2009, in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo on August 30, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / ISHARA S. KODIKARA (Photo credit should read ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images) Trump Dumped U.S. Ambassador to Amman at Request of King
Jordan’s monarch had clashed with the U.S. diplomat over disagreements with Obama administration policies.
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AAAafghan Pentagon Admits Thousands More Troops in Afghanistan Than Previously Reported
Military officials had long hid the real numbers
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Armenian servicemen of the self-defense army of Nagorno-Karabakh fire an artillery shell towards Azeri forces from their positions in the town of Martakert in Armenian-seized Azerbaijani region of Nagorny Karabakh on April 3, 2016. Clashes between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces rumbled on April 3, despite Baku announcing a ceasefire after the worst outbreak of violence in decades over the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region sparked international pressure to stop fighting. / AFP / PHOTOLURE / Vahram Baghdasaryan (Photo credit should read VAHRAM BAGHDASARYAN/AFP/Getty Images) Israel Freezes Export of Suicide Drone to Azerbaijan After Allegation of Abuse
Israel’s Defense Ministry is investigating a claim that the drone was illegally used to attack Armenian troops in a test.
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Taliban Mapped: The Taliban’s Strongholds in Afghanistan
Trump just announced a troop surge. Here’s what he's up against.
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Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) and Iranian head of the military Hasan Firoz Abadi look through binoculars during the test firing of short- and medium-range missiles on 18 September 2004, amid fears in the West that Tehran is developing nuclear weapons and an ongoing review by the UN watchdog of the country's atomic energy program. AFP PHOTO/Str (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) Trump’s Next Self-Inflicted Crisis Is a Nuclear Iran
If the president kills the nuclear deal, the backlash will come sooner than he thinks.
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This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 5, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) inspecting the defence detachment on Jangjae Islet and the Hero Defence Detachment on Mu Islet located in the southernmost part of the waters off the southwest front. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / STR / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. / (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) -
NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 2: John Bolton, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, waves as he leaves Trump Tower, December 2, 2016 in New York City. President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team are in the process of filling cabinet and other high level positions for the new administration. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Shut Out of the White House, Iran Hawk Makes Public Appeal to Trump
Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton says Steve Bannon asked him to draft a plan on scrapping the Iran deal. But now Bannon is out, so Bolton released his proposal online.
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MOSUL, IRAQ - OCTOBER 20: A Kurdish peshmerga tank moves forward during an assault to recapture the village of Tiskharab on October 20, 2016 near Mosul, Iraq. Kurdish and Iraqi forces, supported by numerous countries including Britain and the USA, have continued their advance towards towards Iraq's second largest city of Mosul which has been held by Islamic State militants since 2014. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) With Referendum Approaching, Kurds Wait for More U.S. Military Aid
A $300 million package remains in limbo.
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PHOENIX, AZ - AUGUST 22: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at the Phoenix Convention Center during a rally on August 22, 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona. An earlier statement by the president that he was considering a pardon for Joe Arpaio,, the former sheriff of Maricopa County who was convicted of criminal contempt of court for defying a court order in a case involving racial profiling, has angered Latinos and immigrant rights advocates. (Photo by Ralph Freso/Getty Images) What Trump Got Right About Foreign Policy
(And screwed up anyway.)
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This undated photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on August 26, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) presiding over a target strike exercise conducted by the special operation forces of the Korean People's Army (KPA) at an undisclosed location. North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles on August 26, the US military said, following weeks of heightened tensions between Washington and Pyongyang. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS / STR / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. / (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
