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Regional and related topics
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Reuters
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Sami Aboudi |
8.29.2017
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Leaders of the Houthi group and loyalists of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, allies in Yemen’s civil war, said on Tuesday they had agreed to...
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Reuters
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Parisa Hafezi |
8.29.2017
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Iran has dismissed a U.S. demand for U.N. nuclear inspectors to visit its military bases as “merely a dream” as Washington reviews a 2015 nuclear...
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CNN Politics
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Elise Labott, Nicole Gaouette and Jeremy Herb |
8.29.2017
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In a letter obtained by CNN and written to Senator Bob Corker, the Tennessee Republican who heads the foreign relations committee, Tillerson said he would...
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The Atlantic
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Jeffery Goldberg and Kathy Gilsinan |
8.29.2017
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The battle for leadership of the Gulf is also playing out in Washington, through hacks, leaks, and influence campaigns....
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A $22 million U.S. Defense Department fund that has helped pay the salaries of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq is due to run dry...
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Bloomberg
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Serene Cheong |
8.29.2017
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OPEC’s second-largest producer is stepping up the campaign to get more for its oil by looking to revamp the way it sells crude to its...
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Associated Press
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Fares Akram and Josef Federman |
8.29.2017
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Hamas’ new leader in the Gaza Strip said Monday his group has repaired relations with Iran after a five-year rift and is using its newfound...
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Hisham Al-Omeisy is usually a prolific tweeter, known for his updates, in both English and Arabic, about the social and humanitarian crisis in his country.
The...
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Lebanon began transporting an estimated 400 armed Islamic State fighters and family members from its northern border to the militants’ stronghold in eastern Syria on...
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Laws prohibiting blasphemy are “astonishingly widespread” worldwide, with many laying down disproportionate punishments ranging from prison sentences to lashings or the death penalty, the lead...
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Reuters
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Denis Dumo |
8.29.2017
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South Sudan’s parliament has passed its 2017/2018 budget but, after four years of war, acknowledged it does not know where much of the funding will...
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Libya’s coastguard rescued nearly 500 migrants on Tuesday at sea west of the capital Tripoli, a spokesman said, underlining the challenge of trying to slow...
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Defense One
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Patrick Tucker |
8.29.2017
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By 2025, enormous military-style drones – close relatives of the sort made famous by counterterrorism strikes in Afghanistan and Iraq – will be visible 2,000...
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