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Erdogan Says Turkey ‘Will Never Declare A Ceasefire,’ Only End Offensive If Kurds Withdraw 0
- Foreign Policy, Front Page, Headline News, WORLD
- October 16, 2019
Audrey Conklin Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that the country will only end its offensive in northern Syria if Kurdish fighters withdraw, Reuters reported. Vice President Mike Pence is set to visit Ankara Wednesday to “voice the United States’ commitment to reach an immediate ceasefire and the conditions for a negotiated settlement,” a Tuesday press
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How Ukraine’s Precarious Politics and History Led to Impeachment Probe 0
- Foreign Policy, Front Page, Political Opinion
- October 15, 2019
Amidst the chaos surrounding the budding impeachment probe in the House is a geopolitical situation in Ukraine that is not discussed enough in our national discourse. Every year, Foreign Policy Magazine releases a list of ten conflicts to watch in the coming year, and in the 2019 iteration, Ukraine made the list for its conflict
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‘I Suggest Farmers … Immediately Buy More Land’: Trump, China Reach ‘Phase One’ Of Tentative Trade Agreement 0
- Foreign Policy, Front Page, Headline News
- October 12, 2019
Audrey Conklin President Donald Trump said he reached “phase one” of a tentative U.S.-China trade deal after meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He Friday. The announcement comes amid a 15-month-long trade war involving back-and-forth tariffs, blacklists and threats to and from both countries as the administration attempts to hold China accountable for its trade tactics. The president told reporters in the Oval
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BREAKING: Turkey Bombs American Troops After Trump Orders Repositioning 0
- Foreign Policy, Front Page, Headline News, Political Opinion, War & Peace, WORLD
- October 11, 2019
Newsweek is reporting that Turkey has bombed positions containing American special forces in Syria. In an exclusive piece released just before 3 PM EST on Friday, they say that “contingent of U.S. Special Forces has been caught up in Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in northern Syria, days after President Donald Trump told his
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Lindsey Graham Called The Kurds A ‘Threat’ To Turkey In A Prank Phone Call By Russians 0
- Foreign Policy, Front Page, Headline News
- October 10, 2019
Shelby Talcotton Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham got duped by a prank phone call from two Russians and told them the Kurds were a “threat to Turkey” in August. Graham apparently thought he was speaking to Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar in the two phone conversations, according to Politico. In reality, he was giving
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Trump’s Syria Move: Neither a Withdrawal, Nor Good Policy 0
- Foreign Policy, Front Page, Headline News, Political Opinion
- October 10, 2019
President Trump once again made headlines earlier this week, announcing what many are incorrectly calling a withdrawal from Northern Syria. Senate foreign policy isolationists like Rand Paul were quick to praise the move, comparing the move to Ronald Reagan’s Beirut pullout of 1982. But the move is not a withdrawal from Syria, nor is it
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