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Trump Scores, Breaks Generals’ 50-Year War Record by Gareth Porter…

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The mainstream media has attacked President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria as impulsive, blindsiding his own national security team. But detailed, published accounts of the policy process over the course of the year tell a very different story. They show that senior national security officials and self-interested institutions have been playing […]

OPINION: Trump Critics of Syria Withdrawal Fueled Rise of ISIS by Max Blumenthal

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President Donald Trump’s announcement of an imminent withdrawal of US troops from northeastern Syria summoned a predictable paroxysm of outrage from Washington’s foreign policy establishment. Former Secretary of State and self-described “hair icon” Hillary Clinton perfectly distilled the bipartisan freakout into a single tweet, accusing Trump of “isolationism” and “playing into Russia and Iran’s hands.” […]

Professor Hired Mercenaries to Rescue College Student from Islamic State…

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Professor of analytical chemistry at Sweden’s Lund University Charlotta Turner hired a heavily-armed mercenary squad to rescue one of her students who had been caught in an ISIS war zone. A student, Firas Jumaah, was completing his doctorate under Turner in 2014 when he received word that ISIS had begun capturing villages where his family […]

UN Report Finds ISIS Given “Breathing Space” in U.S.-Occupied Areas of Syria…

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A recent report from the UN Security Council’s Sanctions Monitoring Team has found that many of the places in Syria where the terror group Daesh (ISIS) continues to operate, recuperate and extract oil for profit are in areas of the country occupied by the United States. According to the report’s executive summary: Islamic State in […]

Syria – U.S. (Again) Only Pretends to Fight Islamic State…

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The U.S. occupation force and its Kurdish proxy SDF in northeastern Syria are supposed to fight the Islamic State in its last hold out northeast of Euphrates. But the operations against the handful of towns ISIS (grey) still holds – launched only after long and unexplained delays – shows little progress. Last week it received […]

Saudi Storm Darkens for Trump…

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President Trump edged toward a harder line with Saudi Arabia on Thursday. But the shift came only after the administration faced pressure for a response to the apparent killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi that critics condemned as timorous and unsteady. “Their message is muddled in part because they haven’t settled on policy,” GOP strategist Alex […]

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