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Pentagon chief visits Baghdad as US troops leave Syria for Iraq
Oct 23, 2019 07:10US Defense Secretary Mark Esper pays an unannounced visit to Baghdad for high-level talks, days after Washington withdrew its military forces from Syria into Iraq.
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Iran’s Zarif slams US addiction to sanctions, economic terror
Oct 23, 2019 04:53Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif criticized the US for its addiction to sanctions and “economic terrorism”, calling on the international community to take a “unified” stance and compel Washington to “reverse its dangerous course”.
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Trump is right to take troops out of Syria, now they must leave Iraq & Afghanistan
Oct 22, 2019 17:24The U.S. president’s decision to end the illegal presence of American troops on Syria, albeit partially, in order to take them out of the firing range of the invading Turkish army and Syria’s Kurdish defenders, was the right step, and if Donald Trump is capable of properly gauging the international situation, he must withdraw all American military personnel from not just Afghanistan and Iraq, but from all of West Asia and North Africa.
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Turkey, Russia agree to remove Kurdish militants from NE Syria, launch joint patrols
Oct 22, 2019 17:03Russia and Turkey have reached a deal to establish a safe zone long sought by Ankara in northern Syria, which will see Kurdish militants operating in the region removed to beyond 30 kilometers from the Turkish border.
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Trump's withdrawal from forever wars is just another con
Oct 22, 2019 16:45Most analysts believe the U.S. president can never be trusted and his latest gimmick on pulling out American troops from Syria is just another lie to fool the public.
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US forces move 1,500 Daesh women from Syria to Iraq amid Turkish offensive: Report
Oct 22, 2019 13:18US military forces have reportedly transferred more than 1,500 female members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group from Syria to neighboring Iraq in the wake of a ground offensive by Turkish troops and their allied militants against Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria.
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President Assad: Idlib battle basis for ridding Syria of terrorism
Oct 22, 2019 13:14President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has described the defeating of the Takfiri terrorists holed up in Idlib as the key to ending the eight-year war gripping the country as he visited troops deployed to the frontline against the terrorists in the northwestern province.
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US troops withdrawing from Syria have no permission to stay in Iraq: Military
Oct 22, 2019 08:23The Iraqi military says US forces that have crossed into Iraq as part of a pullout from Syria do not have permission to stay on Iraqi soil and can only be there if they are later being transported out of the country.
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Erdogan, Putin hold talks as withdrawal deadline for Syria Kurds draws near
Oct 22, 2019 08:22Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, as a deadline draws near for Kurdish militants to withdraw from Syria’s northern border areas near Turkey or face a renewed military offensive.
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US military companies against bringing troops home from Syria: Trump
Oct 22, 2019 08:19US President Donald Trump says his plans to bring American troops home from Syria and other countries have been met with strong opposition from “military companies,” arguing that it is easier for him to let the soldiers get killed and sent back in coffins instead.