The president said he wants U.S. forces out of Syria.
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They just want Ukrainian forces out of the Prom Zone.
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He also said Turkey could drive YPG forces out of Manbij.
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This has accelerated a pattern of gentrification that forces out black residents.
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Joseph Dunford reportedly warned Trump against pulling U.S. forces out of Syria.
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The Iraqi government responded by sending troops into Kirkuk, driving Kurdish forces out.
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A Russian commitment to push Iranian and pro-Iranian forces out of Syria.
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The existence of forces out of the individual's control complicates MasterClass's implicit argument.
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No other beverage is so regularly dependent on forces out of its control.
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"I don't see any inflationary forces out there that are worrisome," he added.
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They say, Forces out there are taking us over, but I'll save you.
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Trump earlier this month agreed to pull U.S. forces out of northern Syria.
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The Constitution, written by the military, puts the armed forces out of her control.
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The group says the attacks are aimed at driving Kenyan forces out of Somalia.
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That's assuming the forces out against them could just as easily get on Bienvenidos too.
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He said he also took heart from the movement of coalition forces out of Yemen.
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Trump has been steadfast in his commitment to pulling U.S. forces out of the region.
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Trump has faced intense criticism for his decision to pull U.S. forces out of Syria.
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Iran is stronger in the region, especially since Trump pulled US forces out of Syria.
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We pray to forces out there, forces that we cannot see but that sustain our hopes.
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President Trump has been clear and consistent about wanting to get our forces out of Syria.
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Kerala remains tense, with security forces out in large numbers in an attempt to maintain peace.
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There are too many oppressive forces out there telling you who you should or shouldn't be.
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On Sunday, the Pentagon announced that Mr. Trump had ordered American forces out of northern Syria.
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Would Trump, as Commander in Chief, order military forces out into the streets of American cities?
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And for good reason: Pulling the 1,000 or so American forces out of Syria makes no sense.
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Now with the U.S. forces out of Iraq, the ball is exclusively in the Iraqi government's court.
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It encourages ideological conformity inside parties and forces out unpredictable politicians who might serve as bridge builders.
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The Iraqi army was preparing to push Kurdish forces out of the strategic oil city of Kirkuk.
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Last December, President Trump pledged to pull roughly half of the 14,000 U.S. forces out of Afghanistan.
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Netanyahu said Tuesday that his main focus now is how to push Iranian forces out of Syria.
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Collaborating with such unfamiliar source material was incredibly fun because it forces out of the box thinking.
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Can we kind of assume a complete mauling of the living forces out on the battlefield, then?
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Trump has come under intense criticism for his decision to pull U.S. forces out of northern Syria.
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Trump contributed to that destabilization by suddenly pulling forces out, though Macron didn't reference that decision directly.
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Our final answer to his assassination will be to kick all US forces out of the region.
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On Monday, Trump defended his decision to pull US forces out of Syria in a rambling Twitter thread.
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The deal was necessitated by Trump's decision earlier this month to pull U.S. forces out of northern Syria.
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He was a pivotal figure in orchestrating Iran's long-standing campaign to drive U.S. forces out of Iraq.
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That said, Davis believes it's a good idea to start taking U.S. forces out of the Middle East.
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"If the technology is out there, there will be some police forces out there looking at it," says Stanley.
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Yes, the former spy chief conceded, the North Koreans have ambitions to push American forces out of their region.
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"I've been to Rio multiple times and have never seen this many police and armed forces out," she said.
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But at the same time, there's a lot of forces out there that don't want ... No, why would you?
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"President Trump has been clear and consistent about wanting to get our forces out of Syria," Mr. Roebuck concluded.
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Every day you leave your house, your day can be made extremely difficult by forces out of your control.
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He argued very persuasively earlier this month that it is time to get US forces out of the country.
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With Ukraine in chaos, Russia deployed a small number of special forces out of uniform to the Crimean Peninsula.
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"Our final answer to his assassination will be to kick all US forces out of the region," he wrote.
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New development typically raises property taxes and rents, and often forces out community residents, threatening their fragile economic existence.
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So the fighting continued, as did Obama's desire to seek a political solution while getting US forces out of there.
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In December 2018, Trump, seemingly out of the blue, announced he was pulling all US forces out of northern Syria.
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But the trenches that fighters dug on the borders of Awamiya, apparently to keep security forces out, told another story.
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"We do understand that there are forces out here that do not see the world as we do," White said.
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Mr Obama's decision to pull all American forces out of Iraq at the end of 2011 was even more disastrous.
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The attack was claimed by the Taliban, seeking to re-impose Islamic rule and drive international forces out of Afghanistan.
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The forces out to kill us with their benevolence are more crazed now than they were when you were alive.
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They have stepped up a campaign of suicide bombings in recent years as Washington tries to pull its forces out.
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Mr. Obama denounced Mr. Assad as an illegitimate leader but kept American forces out of the battle to oust him.
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Many see Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump as part of the same nationalist, xenophobic forces out to crush cosmopolitanism.
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The SDF's loyalties shifted dramatically Sunday as the Pentagon announced it was removing the remaining US forces out of northern Syria.
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Syria Surprise: President Trump is ordering US military forces out of Syria, claiming they've defeated ISIS and their work is done.
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It says Washington should pull its forces out of the way; the United States says it has no plans to withdraw.
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U.S. President Donald Trump pulled troops back from the border this week, saying he wanted American forces out of harm's way.
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Then, following the Obama administration's deadline to have combat forces out of Afghanistan by the end of 250, they went home.
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When the bombs started falling in Belgrade in March of 1999, NATO was trying to force Yugoslav forces out of Kosovo.
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The officials described the Afghanistan request a day after the Trump administration said it was pulling all U.S. forces out of Syria.
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The policymakers have had to change tack since Trump's surprise announcement on December 19 to pull all U.S. forces out of Syria.
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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke today on the phone with President Trump about the U.S. decision to pull forces out of Syria.
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Trump announced last month that Islamic State had been defeated in Syria and he would pull U.S. forces out of the country.
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Pulling American forces out of Iraq was a crucial plank of Mr. Obama's campaign platform when he ran for president in 2008.
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The troops were unharmed, but some reports suggest that this was a deliberate effort to push US forces out of the region.
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On the agenda will be the international nuclear deal with Iran as well as how to push Iranian forces out of Syria.
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"Our final answer to his assassination will be to kick all US forces out of the region," Mr. Rouhani wrote on Twitter.
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There's more: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his nation's final act will be to get all US forces out of the region.
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"Our final answer to his assassination will be to kick all US forces out of the region," Mr. Rouhani wrote on Twitter.
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Some officials have said they fear that pulling U.S. forces out too soon could potentially allow an ISIS resurgence in the country.
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Since last December President Trump has been in an awful hurry to pull US forces out of Syria, seemingly indifferent to the consequences.
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The bravery of Kaemmerling and others helped the Americans chase the German forces out of Belleau Wood by the end of the month.
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Tensions between Turkey and the U.S. have spiked over the last month following Trump's decision to pull U.S. forces out of northern Syria.
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He pulled US forces out of northeastern Syria this week, allowing Turkey to launch an assault against the Kurds, who are American allies.
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In an interview with CNN television last year, Trump himself appeared to accept that it was too late to pull U.S. forces out.
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The president also faces alarm over his decisions to pull American forces out of Syria and to withdraw roughly 7,000 troops from Afghanistan.
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It is that the UK, mostly on Blair's watch but finally under that of his successor, Gordon Brown, took its forces out of Iraq.
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With the east on its knees, the regime launched a devastating ground offensive on November 15th to drive rebel forces out of the city.
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They've repeatedly said a main reason for the US deployment in Syria is to push Iranian and Iranian-backed forces out of the country.
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The Russian rouble RUB= turned positive in afternoon trading after President Vladimir Putin announced his plan to pull Russian armed forces out of Syria.
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The report attributed 2628 civilian deaths in the first three months of the year to pro-government forces, out of a total 28500 deaths.
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This leads many to believe that what the Taliban want is to get powerful foreign forces out so that the Taliban can win militarily.
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Critics say MESA is a guise for the US to pull forces out of the area, without letting Iranian, Russian, or Chinese influence grow.
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"I'm not a violent person by nature, but there are some evil forces out there that should be pummeled into the ground," he said.
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The White House for its part has said that the president still wants to pull U.S. forces out of Syria as quickly as possible.
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North Korea's objectives have been unchanging for decades: Regime survival, forcing U.S. forces out of South Korea, and then a takeover of South Korea.
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Just days earlier, General James "Mad Dog" Mattis resigned as Trump's defense secretary over Trump's controversial decision to pull U.S. forces out of Syria.
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The agreement between Damascus and the Kurds comes as US President Donald Trump ordered the withdrawal of all remaining American forces out of northern Syria.
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The group says the attacks are aimed at driving Kenyan forces out of Somalia, where they are part of an African force fighting al Shabaab.
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Then-President Bill Clinton pulled U.S. forces out of Somalia, with the incident souring some people's feelings about U.S. military's intervention in certain foreign entanglements.
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Trump's tweets came amid ongoing criticism of his decision to pull U.S. forces out of Syria, where they have been assisting Kurdish fighters battling ISIS.
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U.S. President Donald Trump is impatient to get U.S. forces out of Afghanistan and end the 18-year war that was launched after the Sept.
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The French leader thought he'd persuaded Trump to retreat on his intention of pulling American forces out of Syria as soon as he was able.
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Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, said today that his country would ultimately avenge Suleimani's death by driving all United States forces out of the Middle East.
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At a news conference on Tuesday with leaders from the Baltic states, meanwhile, Trump said that he wants to pull U.S. forces out of Syria.
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Having multiple streams of income is one of the best ways to reduce that risk, and stop worrying about economic forces out of your control.
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While President Donald Trump had signaled that he wanted U.S. forces out of Syria, in April he agreed to keep troops there a little longer.
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In Iraq, that day came in October, when the Iraqi army attacked the oil-rich and ethnically divided city of Kirkuk, driving Kurdish forces out.
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From the first day, however, it was clear that an uplifting theme wouldn't be enough to keep negative forces out of their sanctuary in the woods.
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Whether the Russians will ever live up to their commitment, which is very vague, to ... get the [Kurdish forces] out of their areas, I don't know.
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He told Netanyahu in their meeting that the Trump administration fully supports Israel's actions aimed at pushing Iranian and pro-Iranian forces out of the country.
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The war in Syria became yet more complex when Turkey sent troops across the border to push Islamic State forces out of Jarabulus, a strategic town.
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His eagerness to pull U.S. forces out of Syria also aligned with Erdogan's plan to send troops across the border to drive back the Kurdish YPG.
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He has also said he wants American military forces out of the southern Philippines, blaming their presence for fanning the growth of a Muslim insurgency there.
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Andrew Cuomo said there's no evidence to suggest there's a wider threat or plot, warning that people will still see more security forces out of caution.
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It is no secret that both China and Russia want U.S. forces out of South Korea, and thereafter out of Japan, Okinawa, and the western Pacific.
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INJURY FORCES OUT MUGURZA Garbiñe Muguruza sprained her left ankle and pulled out of her quarterfinal against Viktorija Golubic at the Generali Ladies in Linz, Austria.
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For even more breakfast recipes, check out these breakfast recipes from whole30, a more radical diet that forces out all sugar, in addition to other items.
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Officials told her there was additional intelligence that he was working on a large-scale attack intended to drive American forces out of the Middle East.
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"It has to do with protecting it from Donald Trump, protecting it from the Ku Klux Klan, protecting it from all the evil forces out there."
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Had the government not been able to push the ISIS forces out, Waheedullah would not be able to make such a drive as he is now.
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The way you prepare for a siege is you don't march your forces out into the middle of the open to fight a numerically superior enemy.
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They have pushed Saudi forces out of some border posts, and forced the evacuation of more than 7,000 civilians from Saudi villages near the ill-marked frontier.
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Operation Earnest Will was followed two years later by a massive implementation of the Carter Doctrine, President Bush's 1990 decision to push Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
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The United States must also pull all conventional forces out of Afghanistan and return the mission to SOCOM, so they can continue the al Qaeda disruption mission.
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The continued push by Turkey into Syria comes days after President Donald Trump pulled US forces out of the area, making Turkey's air and ground offensive possible.
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Andrew Cuomo has said there's no evidence to suggest there's a wider threat or plot but warned that people will see more security forces out of caution.
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Trump frequently argues that no one has been more pro-military than he, and claims to have pulled the nation's armed forces out of a funding crisis.
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How can you stop the Iranians from establishing themselves militarily in Syria and create a land corridor to the Mediterranean while getting U.S. forces out of Syria?
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Lukashenko has run Belarus in authoritarian style since 1994, during which time he changed the constitution to expand his control and push opposition forces out of parliament.
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He personalizes everything so much that when things go bad, he can only see it as an attack on him by the forces out to get him.
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Predominantly Albanian Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, nearly a decade after NATO bombing drove Serb security forces out of what was then a Serbian province.
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Last October, Mr. Trump ignited controversy when he pulled American forces out of the Kurdish-controlled zone in northeastern Syria, leaving the Kurds vulnerable to Turkish attacks.
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Trump's initial announcement last week that the U.S. would pull forces out of the region drew swift condemnation from Democrats and Republicans alike, with close ally Sen.
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Trump abruptly announced a week ago that he was pulling U.S. forces out of northern Syria, and within days, Turkey had launched an offensive into the region.
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Though President Donald Trump has previously expressed a desire to pull US forces out of Syria, Jeffrey said the President "is on board" with the new approach.
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This came after a call Sunday between Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which Trump said he would be pulling American forces out of northeastern Syria.
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Trump moved U.S. forces out of the way, an abrupt policy change after years of American troops fighting alongside the Kurd-led Syrian Democratic Forces against Islamic State.
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Trump moved U.S. forces out of the way, an abrupt policy change after years of American troops fighting alongside the Kurd-led Syrian Democratic Forces against Islamic State.
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Previously, Trump administration officials argued that keeping Mr. Assad's forces out of the territory was key to stemming Iranian and Russian influence and keeping pressure on Mr. Assad.
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GENEVA, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Iran's foreign ministry called on Turkey on Thursday to immediately halt its military offensive in Syria and pull its forces out of that country.
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Mr. Kaddoura said the Muslim immigrants he knows love America but are tired of endless wars in the Middle East and want American forces out of the region.
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The arrival of the Russian police marks a shift in the regional balance of power less than three weeks after Trump began pulling U.S. forces out of northeast Syria.
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VICE News followed the Fallujah Horan brigade of the FSA and their charismatic commander Abu Hadi Aboud as they fought to push regime forces out of Daraa's eastern suburbs.
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It was about certain forces out there and -- and me hitching my wagon to a broader spirit and a broader set of trends and a broader set of traditions.
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Mosul, Iraq (CNN)In June 2014, ISIS drove Iraqi forces out of Mosul, and took control of the vibrant city of 2.5 million people located on the River Tigris.
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During the 1991 Persian Gulf war, the administration of George Bush led an effort to push Iraqi forces out of Kuwait while dissuading Saddam Hussein from employing chemical weapons.
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In the aftermath of the US killing of a top Iranian military commander on Iraqi soil, Baghdad has asked the US to start planning to pull its forces out.
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Soleimani, a pivotal figure in orchestrating Iran's campaign to drive U.S. forces out of Iraq, was responsible for building up Iran's network of proxy armies across the Middle East.
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Even President Donald Trump eventually denounced Turkey's decision as a "bad idea," despite having essentially given the green light for it by moving US forces out of the area.
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Bolton was also central to the shift in U.S. policy in Syria from only defeating the Islamic State, or ISIS, to also pushing Iranian forces out of the country.
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Plans to end the violence include a US-led initiative, floated on December 2, to guarantee safe passage of rebel forces out of the rebel-held eastern part of Aleppo.
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President Trump updated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call on Monday about his decision to pull U.S. forces out of Syria, Netanyahu said today in a statement.
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But just as steel bars help fix concrete's ductility issues, layers of whatever between clods of dirt help generate friction and spread perpendicular forces out over a greater surface area.
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Trump has attracted criticism from lawmakers in both parties over his decision to pull U.S. forces out of Syria, with those opposing the move warning it could destabilize the region.
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The apparent chemical attack in Douma, a rebel-held town in Syria, over the weekend came days after Trump said he wanted to pull U.S. forces out of the country.
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In any event, it would be difficult for Hezbollah to agree to pull its forces out of Yemen when it has repeatedly denied any role in the embattled country's war.
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By afternoon, residents reported that the coalition of Tripoli-area militias was fighting to drive General Hifter's forces out of the town of Aziziya, about 20 miles southwest of Tripoli.
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Atwood's best novels bring to bear a psychologist's grasp of deep, interior forces and a mad scientist's knack for conceptual experiments that can draw these forces out into the open.
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In coordination with our Afghan allies, the United States should be prepared to put on the table the conditions under which we would consider pulling our forces out of Afghanistan.
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Yemen's Houthi group agreed on Friday to unilaterally redeploy forces out of ports of Hodeidah, Salif and Ras Isa, between May 11 and May 14, a U.N. statement said earlier.
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"There are possibilities for doing a larger negotiation on helping to get Iranian forces out of Syria and back into Iran, which would be a significant step forward," Bolton told CBS.
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Not much will bring senior Republicans to push back against Trump, but his decision to pull American forces out of Syria has drawn condemnation from three grandees of the GOP: Sen.
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Yesterday, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said President Trump is ordering the remaining US forces out of northern Syria, a move that many fear will paralyze counter-terrorism efforts in the area.
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The travelers, often exploited by cross-border guides called "coyotes" and security forces out to make a buck, said the business of illegal immigration was unaltered by the deal in Washington.
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Kenya said last week it would pull its forces out after a U.N. inquiry accused UNMISS of failing to respond to an attack on a Juba hotel during fighting in July.
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Israel wants to use the summit to push the U.S. and Russia closer together in order to get a deal on Syria that would push Iranian forces out of the country.
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"This is a sad day," Serb Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told thousands gathered for a church service in a Belgrade suburb, referring to Croatia's final offensive to drive Serb forces out.
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During his four years in office, Bush has been credited for helping to bring the Cold War to end, and forging a global coalition to kick Iraq forces out of Kuwait.
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On Wednesday, the day after Iran retaliated for the Soleimani killing, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his nation's final act will be to get all US forces out of the region.
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Trump has made clear he wants U.S. forces out of both countries by the 2020 election to be able to campaign on fulfilling his pledge to end so-called forever wars.
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For his part, al-Assad told a Russian newspaper Thursday there was no other option but "to clean" Aleppo and use it as a "springboard" to push rebel forces out of Syria.
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And though Tokyo eventually sent $13 billion to help with the military effort to drive Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait, it didn't send any troops — because its antiwar constitution forbade it.
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Serbia, which relies on Russia for energy, is not actively seeking membership of NATO, which remains unpopular among Serbs because of its 1999 bombing campaign to drive Serbian forces out of Kosovo.
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But keeping large numbers of American ground forces out of Syria has also created space for Russia to assume a greater role there, both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table.
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U.S. to Withdraw About 7,000 Troops From Afghanistan, Officials Say: President Trump made the decision at the same time he decided he was pulling American forces out of Syria, one official said.
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On Thursday Jim Mattis, the defense secretary, resigned in protest over the president's decision to pull American forces out of Syria — a move followed by news of a troop drawdown in Afghanistan.
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Sources familiar with the matter identified the discrepancy as a significant potential obstacle to the talks and, by extension, to U.S. President Donald Trump's desire to pull U.S. forces out of Afghanistan.
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Soleimani, a pivotal figure in orchestrating Iran's long-standing campaign to drive U.S. forces out of Iraq, was also responsible for building up Tehran's network of proxy armies across the Middle East.
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When he was in his 40s and 50s, the United States conducted a successful military operation in Panama, reversed Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait, and drove Serbian forces out of Kosovo.
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Though the president campaigned in 2008 on pulling military forces out of Iraq, the United States has about 3,700 troops there, counting a handful of Special Operations forces on the ground in Syria.
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Officials close to Macron told Bloomberg that the French President also felt blindsided when Trump announced last year in a tweet that he intended to pull all US forces out of Syria forthwith.
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The fact that we don't encounter events like this often is a real testament to how professional the special operations forces out there are, and how close they have become with their partners.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo next week in Brazil to discuss President Trump's decision to pull U.S. forces out of Syria, Israeli officials told me.
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Experts say they served as a buffer and tripwire that kept Turkish forces out of the country, even though President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long wanted to kill Kurds along Turkey's southern border.
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Turkey has also restricted access for German parliamentarians seeking to visit German troops at the Incirlik air base in southern Turkey, leading Berlin to announce it was moving those forces out of Turkey.
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In the United States, President Donald Trump made plans to pull American forces out of Afghanistan and pushed the U.S. government toward a partial shutdown this weekend over funding for a border wall.
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The video has emerged after US President Donald Trump's abrupt decision to pull US forces out of northeastern Syria, where they had been aiding in the fight against the Islamic State terrorist group.
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Russia, which provided air support; the Syrian Army; and other allied militias that helped fight the Islamic State are all claiming part of the credit for driving its forces out of the city.
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As commander of the Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds force, Soleimani ran clandestine operations in foreign countries and was a key figure in Iran's long-standing campaign to drive U.S. forces out of Iraq.
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As commander of the Revolutionary Guards elite Quds force, Soleimani ran clandestine operations in foreign countries and was a key figure in Iran's long-standing campaign to drive U.S. forces out of Iraq.
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National Security Advisor John Bolton will arrive in Israel late next week for talks with Prime Minister Netanyahu on President Trump's decision to pull U.S. forces out of Syria, Israeli and U.S. officials said.
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And until Russia pulls its forces out of eastern Ukraine and honors its Minsk commitments, our sanctions in response to its flagrant misconduct in the eastern part of the country will stay in place.
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Last week, he said he wanted all American special forces out of the southern Philippines, where they have been advising local troops battling Muslim extremists, but the US said no official order was received.
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Turkish politicians on Tuesday criticized President Trump's economic threats after the president announced he would be pulling U.S. troops that had allied with Kurdish-led forces out of Syria ahead of a Turkish attack.
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The United States is highly unlikely to pull forces out of Asia, even if North Korea is trying get U.S. out of the region, said Jonathan Pain, author of investment newsletter The Pain Report.
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Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne forces out Ferrari's longtime chairman, Luca di Montezemelo, and in 2014 sets the Italian automaker on a course to sell more vehicles and to attack new markets, such as China.
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On February 8, military hardware was rolled out to celebrate a rarely-marked event, the day in 1948 when Kim Il Sung created the country's armed forces out of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army.
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The better we eat and the more we take care of ourselves, the more we can recognize the benevolent forces out there versus those energies out there that wish to enslave us or compromise us.
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For his part, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a Russian newspaper Thursday there was no other option but "to clean" Aleppo and use it as a "springboard" to push rebel forces out of Syria.
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President George W. Bush once said "bring 'em on," when referring to the possibility that insurgents could use military force to push US forces out of Iraq, a comment for which he later expressed regret.
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National Security Adviser John Bolton reportedly discussed such a Syria deal on his trip to Moscow, with the aim of getting Iranian forces out of Syria, but in fact Putin has little to offer there.
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Mr. Trump followed that up by declaring that the United States would pull half its forces out of Afghanistan; the combined withdrawals prompted the resignation of Jim Mattis, the respected general who leads the Pentagon.
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Pelosi, at a press conference, accused Trump of ignoring the reality of the bipartisan outrage surrounding his decision to pull U.S. forces out of the site of a Turkish invasion of Kurdish-held northern Syria.
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Some residents fear the killing has taken the persecution to a new level, nearly two years after local fighters backed by a Saudi-led coalition drove Iran-aligned Houthi forces out of the southern city.
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" According to Thae, Kim sees "the existence of a prosperous and democratic South Korea … by itself a major threat toward his dynasty … he also believes it necessary to drive American forces out of the peninsula.
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Good old Andrew Bryniarski (Lattimer from The Program!) has a nice scene as Kelly, the ultra-swole lineman who forces out placekicker and one-time Letterman running gag Bjorn Nittmo out of the locker room toilet.
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Serbia is one of the few Balkan states not in the 29-member NATO alliance, which remains hugely unpopular there since the 1999 bombing campaign staged to drive Serbian forces out of the now-independent Kosovo.
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Residents at risk Fighting to retake Mosul is still ongoing, with Iraqi forces saying late last month they were launching a large-scale operation to push ISIS forces out of their remaining footholds in the city.
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"...it's impossible to get to a peace treaty option because what the North Koreans really want by formally concluding a peace treaty is really to be able to get ... US forces out of the Korean peninsula."
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Trump had signaled his desire to get U.S. forces out of Syria in a speech last week, and officials said he had privately been pressing for an early withdrawal in talks with his national security aides.
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But a question hangs over the Kunduz bombing, even as the military has moved to declare the matter settled: Did Afghan forces, out of longstanding mistrust of M.S.F., draw the United States into a terrible tragedy?
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While there's no sign at this point of any officer resignations, Brett McGurk -- the American envoy to the coalition to fight ISIS -- also resigned on Friday over Trump's decision to pull US forces out of Syria.
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The 32-year-old waiter, who came to the U.S. in 1999, told Clinton the U.S. military efforts he authorized to drive Yugoslavian occupying forces out of Kosovo led to peace and almost certainly his survival.
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President Trump made the decision to pull the troops — about half the number the United States has in Afghanistan now — at the same time he decided to pull American forces out of Syria, one official said.
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The camp's charismatic founder, Caleb, forces out the original owners and then invents a creation myth that he comes to believe himself: The land needed saving and he was the only one who could do it.
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And with Russia thus far unwilling to directly confront the Turkish military, Bashar al-Assad's army could continue to suffer, paving the way for Turkey to achieve its goal of pushing regime forces out of Idlib.
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Soleimani was responsible for building up Tehran's network of proxy armies across the Middle East and he was a key figure in orchestrating Iran's long-standing campaign to drive U.S. forces out of its neighbour Iraq.
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The White House that night declared that though the US wouldn't support Turkey's assault on the Kurds, who make up the bulk of the Syrian Democratic Forces, it would move its forces out of harm's way.
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And it&aposs always possible Trump would "wake up one morning and make that decision" to pull US forces out of Iraq, as he announced earlier with the US military presence in neighboring Syria, Salem said.
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Trump has ordered the remaining US forces out of northern Syria, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday, a development that has paralyzed the fight against ISIS and ceded US and Kurdish battlefield gains to Moscow and Damascus.
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There has also been heavy fighting in the southern province of Helmand, where the Taliban have pushed government forces out of many areas into smaller defensive positions around the provincial capital Lashkar Gah and other district centers.
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The group is expected to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to address the situation in Syria, marking the first major meeting between the two countries since Trump pulled US armed forces out of northern Syria.
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Russia has already begun to fill the void of U.S. troops in Syria as they exit, reaching an agreement with Turkey a day prior to push Kurdish forces out of territory they once controlled in northern Syria .
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Background: Last month, I reported that Netanyahu told a closed door hearing at the Knesset that Russia proposed a deal for pushing Iranian forces out of Syria in return for relief from some U.S. sanctions against Iran.
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In July 2015, a ground offensive, launched as part of Saudi Arabia's military intervention and led by its coalition partner, the United Arab Emirates, eventually pushed the Houthi-Saleh forces out of Aden and its southern governorates.
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" 'Ethnic cleansing': Roebuck went on to describe the Turkish military efforts to drive Kurdish forces out of an area where the Turkish government plans to resettle up to 28503 million Syrian refugees nothing short of "ethnic cleansing.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prominent evangelical leaders have sharply criticized U.S. President Donald Trump over his decision to pull American military forces out of Syria, saying he was endangering tens of thousands of Christians in the Muslim-dominated region.
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US changes tone Trump's decision to allow Erdogan to move forward with the operation and to move US forces out of the area goes against efforts by US officials to dissuade Turkey from carrying out a military intervention.
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In addition to encouraging vigilante killings of alleged drug dealers and comparing himself to Hitler, Duterte has said he would like to see American forces out of his country, ending a longstanding alliance to woo Chinese friendship instead.
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One of Iran's main regional goals - driving U.S. forces out of neighbouring Iraq - came a step closer on Sunday when the Iraqi parliament backed a recommendation by the prime minister for all foreign troops to be ordered out.
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That could involve brokering talks between Ankara and Damascus, which wants Turkish forces out, and between Damascus and the Kurds, who want a measure of autonomy inside Syria that Assad has so far shown no sign of giving.
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On policy, Trump's administration has cut back on the number of refugees admitted into the U.S. In October, Trump abruptly pulled forces out of Syria in a move that endangered Christians and other religious minorities in the region.
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Russia's surprise military intervention in September turned the tide of war in Assad's favor, but only briefly stemmed the currency's decline, and Moscow's declaration on Monday that it was pulling forces out of the country hit the pound again.
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Russia's surprise military intervention in September turned the tide of war in Assad's favour, but only briefly stemmed the currency's decline, and Moscow's declaration on Monday that it was pulling forces out of the country hit the pound again.
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Food shortages have got a lot worse as a result of a siege by government and Russian forces that want to see Rukban dismantled and U.S. forces out of Syria, according to people living in the camp and diplomats.
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Serbia is a European Union candidate country but one of the few Balkan states not in the 29-member NATO alliance, which is hugely unpopular among Serbs since its 1999 bombing campaign to drive Serbian forces out of Kosovo.
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Despite escalating tariffs, sanctions, and tension over everything from the South China Sea to Ukraine, Syria and Iran, all three nations want to get U.S. forces out of Afghanistan without leaving behind a civil war and more international terrorism.
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Despite his view that Iran is a mortal enemy of the United States, Mattis has opposed the use of force to kick Iranian forces out of Syria and urged Trump not to walk away from the Iran nuclear deal.
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The agreement could represent a chance for peace after 18 years of war and a U.S. troop presence that dates back to 2001, as well as boosting U.S. President Donald Trump's hopes of pulling U.S. forces out of Afghanistan.
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Serbs killed 44 Albanians in the village of Racak in 1999 before NATO went to war to drive Serb forces out of Kosovo, ending a counter-insurgency war in which more than 13,000 people, mainly local Albanians, were killed.
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Image 2 of 2 JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is heading to Europe in a bid to rally support from key allies for amending the international nuclear deal with Iran and for pushing Iranian forces out of neighboring Syria.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi group will on Saturday start to unilaterally redeploy forces out of three key ports, the United Nations and a Houthi spokesman said, a move to pave the way for political negotiations to end Yemen's four-year war.
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Secretary of Defense James Mattis was supposed to arrive in Israel next week for talks on Syria and Iran but cancelled his trip following his resignation yesterday and Trump's decision to pull U.S. forces out of Syria, Israeli officials tell me.
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Jeffrey said getting Iranian forces out of Syria, where they back Assad's rule, was not a U.S. military goal but should be an outcome of the process to end the civil war and the only way to achieve lasting peace.
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Also on Thursday, Trump resisted pressure to stand down from a decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, made plans to pull American forces out of Afghanistan and pushed the U.S. government toward a shutdown over funding for a border wall.
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Even when works are not explicitly based on his stories, his themes—forbidden knowledge, cosmic entities in dimensions beyond, losing one's mind to powerful forces out of human perception, nightmarish creatures living beneath the surface of our world—are everywhere.
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On Idlib battlefields where fighting began in earnest on Wednesday, Ahrar al-Sham withdrew from the city of Saraqeb in order to spare civilians who had protested against the fighting, but pushed Tahrir al-Sham forces out of nearby smaller towns.
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To this day, banners in front of the Parliament building hold Bill and Hillary Clinton responsible for the widely resented 78-day NATO campaign that drove Serb-dominated forces out of Kosovo, enabling it to eventually declare independence in 2008.
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We must seriously consider the possibility that the North's current leader, Kim Jong-un, is preparing to use nuclear weapons to drive American forces out of South Korea and coerce Seoul — even at the risk of fighting a limited nuclear war.
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The Pentagon's decision on Sunday to pull American forces out of northern Syria means the opportunity to take custody of additional ISIS prisoners — even if the Kurds were to decide to start cooperating again — is rapidly evaporating, the officials said.
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But in October, when Mr. Trump abruptly pulled forces out of the way of a Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria, he did so with no National Security Council policy process — and no serious weighing of the costs to U.S. influence.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Tehran's missile attacks on U.S. targets in Iraq were "a slap on the face" for the United States and it should now pull its forces out of the region.
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The House chastised Obama for failing to notify Congress, but a motion to pull all US forces out of Libyan action failed — with most Democrats choosing not to limit Obama&aposs unilateral action, even though it encroached on their legislative powers.
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Russia is a close battlefield ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, which was invited by the Kurds into territory they controlled after Trump pulled his forces out of the way of a Turkish assault against Kurdish-held areas.
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U.S. officials have said they hope to make progress during the talks persuading Russia to use its influence to get Iranian forces out of Syria, as part of a wider campaign to rein in Iran's influence in the Middle East.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that President Trump's decision to pull U.S. forces out of Syria "in no way changes anything that this administration is working on alongside Israel" during a meeting in Brasilia on Tuesday.
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The President's Syria decision was also slammed by Brett McGurk, the former US envoy for the global coalition to counter ISIS who resigned last year because of Trump's decision to pull US forces out of Syria -- a decision the President later reversed.
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Biden turned his attention to the economy after spending much of the past several weeks attacking Trump for his decision to pull forces out of Syria and the president's allegations, offered without evidence, about the foreign business dealings of Biden's son Hunter.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 10 days ago, U.S. President Donald Trump told national security aides that he wanted U.S. forces out of Syria in six months or so, adamant that it was time to bring them home after largely defeating Islamic State militants.
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TILLY-SUR-SEULLES, France (Reuters) - It is the sounds and smell of war that are indelibly imprinted in the memory of Yves Faucon, who was 12 when allied troops landed in Normandy and set about driving Nazi Germany's forces out of France.
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When O'Donnell writes that "the peace movement drove U.S. forces out of Vietnam, not the North Vietnamese Army," he is making the same mistake that every Administration made: imagining that it was decisions taken by Americans that determined the fate of Vietnam.
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The Houthis' withdrawal from the three ports of Hodeidah, Salif and Rass Issa is intended to be the first step in the implementation of the agreement, to be followed by both sides pulling their forces out of the city and the surrounding province.
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On the other hand, Israel went on a diplomatic campaign to put international pressure on Iran to move its forces out of Syria and to make sure that any future peace deal to end the Syrian war will address removing Iranian forces.
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The bombing on Wednesday puts Mr. Trump in a tough position: He has long promised to pull the forces out, but also threatened in a Twitter message on Sunday to hit the Islamic State again, and "hard," if the group lashed out.
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Biden, when asked the same question, said he would leave troops in the Middle East if he became president, adding that "we're in a position where we're going to have to pull our forces out" because of the U.S. decision to kill Soleimani.
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Although he would start to pull American forces out of the conflict, leaving the South Vietnamese to do more of the fighting themselves, he continued a brutal and massive bombing campaign against the North Vietnamese that would lead to a national outcry against his duplicity.
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The official said the U.S. plans to pull military forces out of the country once the final stages of the last operation against Islamic State is complete, and that the time-frame for the troop pullout is expected to be between 60 to 100 days.
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In Soura, a densely populated enclave in Srinagar that has been a hotbed of protests since Aug 5, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi withdrew the special rights granted to Jammu and Kashmir, locals have built a series of makeshift barricades to keep security forces out.
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They added that they wanted to host this dialogue and have worked on it for a long time because they want to see the U.S. and Russia work together on a political solution in Syria that will push Iranian forces out of the country.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Germany has no choice but to begin the process of pulling its forces out of Incirlik air force base in Turkey as the Turkish government will not allow all German lawmakers to visit troops there, Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Monday.
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It was intended to clarify the US position in the Middle East following President Trump's surprise on December 19, when he tweeted a video announcing that he was pulling US forces out of Syria "now," and to lay out the administration's vision for the region.
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Washington (CNN)Brett McGurk, the special presidential envoy for the global coalition to counter ISIS, submitted his resignation Friday because of President Donald Trump's decision to pull US forces out of Syria, according to two senior officials and several sources familiar with his thinking.
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The SDF was an essential partner force in the mission to destroy ISIS; on Sunday evening, Trump announced his intention to pull US forces out of northeastern Syria, which Kurds call Rojava, essentially giving a green light to a Turkish attack on the Kurds.
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" The spokesman called on Parliament to "play its role and adopt a national, historical attitude and put an end to the frequent violations to the Iraqi sovereignty by the American government and to issue a decision to get the American forces out of Iraq.
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" President Donald Trump, who had campaigned on pulling US forces out of the country, on Thursday said he intended to withdraw more than 5,000 troops from Afghanistan -- leaving 8,600 on the ground -- "and then we make a determination from there as to what happens.
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But he also suggested that Sunak's position was now incredibly secure for the foreseeable future, because a prime minister that sacks or forces out two chancellors might appear to have a management problem — in the eyes of his fellow politicians, not to mention investors.
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The president clarified that there are no American soldiers in the area where the Turkish incursion is taking place, and defended his efforts to pull U.S. forces out of the region, even as his strategy has faced relentless criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike.
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"The Iraqi and Peshmerga security forces fought through an elaborate defense formed over the past two years to not only keep the Iraqi security forces out, but the residents of Mosul captive," said a statement from US Central Command Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve.
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Here's how that could work: The Taliban agrees to just enough to give Trump the cover he needs to pull US forces out; then, once the US is gone, the Taliban just does whatever it wants since the US isn't there to enforce the deal anymore.
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It took just two weeks for the power dynamics in the region to shift dramatically following a telephone conversation between Erdoğan and Trump in which the U.S. president said he would pull American forces out of northeastern Syria while Turkey initiated military strikes against the Kurds.
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The way to assuage fears about the BRI's threat to the balance of power is not by trying to frustrate China's efforts, let alone by starting a trade war or by pulling America's armed forces out of Asia, as President Donald Trump sometimes seems to contemplate.
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MOSCOW, Dec 11 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia would keep its Hmeymim air base in Syria's Latakia Province as well as its naval facility at Tartous "on a permanent basis" despite a decision to start pulling some of its forces out of Syria.
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The chemical attack comes days after Trump announced his intent to pull U.S. forces out of Syria in a matter of months, and a little over a week after he ordered the State Department to freeze some $200 million in humanitarian aid for the Syrian recovery effort.
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Included among the demands: Iran must acknowledge past military dimensions of its nuclear program, expand the access given to nuclear inspectors, effectively end its ballistic missile program, release US detainees, end its support for groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, and pull its forces out of Syria.
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SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that it was not up to Russia to persuade Iran to pull its forces out of Syria, and that the governments calling for Iran to leave should provide guarantees that they would not meddle in Syria's affairs.
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Turkey considers Kurdish militant groups operating in northern Syria to be terrorists despite their work with the U.S-led coalition against ISIS and has sought to drive Kurdish forces out of an area of the country where it plans to resettle more than 1 million Syrian refugees.
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While officials in Washington say China is nowhere near gaining the capacity to keep American forces out of the South China Sea, analysts say the buildup will make it more difficult for the United States Navy to quickly defend allies with weaker militaries, like the Philippines.
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John McCain, the Arizona Republican who's the chairman of the Armed Services Committee and supports a robust US military presence in Syria, blasted Trump and said he had "emboldened" Assad when he said last week that he wanted to pull American forces out of the country.
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Israeli defense forces chief of staff, Major General Gadi Eizenkot, arrived in Washington today for an urgent meeting with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, to discuss the situation in Syria and the efforts to push Iranian forces out of the country.
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Here's how that could work: The Taliban agrees to just enough to give Trump the cover he needs to pull US forces out; then once the US is gone, the Taliban just does whatever it wants since the US isn't there to enforce the deal anymore.
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The senior Israeli official said in a conference call with reporters that Israel's goal is to get all Iranian and pro-Iranian forces out of the entire Syrian territory, but the Russians want, in the first phase, to push the Iranians 65 miles from the Israeli border.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States would "badly" like to lift sanctions against Russia but will not do so until Moscow has pulled its forces out of eastern Ukraine and Crimea, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday, calling that the main obstacle to normal ties.
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Mayan jungles, undersea kingdoms, ghost ships, evil forces out to destroy the world, beautiful women, heroes modeled on himself — Mr. Cussler's vivid literary fantasies and his larger-than-life exploits swirled together for four decades, spinning off more than 85 books and locating almost as many shipwrecks.
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He has gone from facing off against a leader who wants US forces removed from South Korea, to being confronted by a leader who not only wants US forces out of the Pacific region altogether but aspires to knocking America off its spot as world superpower.
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In addition to Mr. al-Assad, Mr. Trump's decision to pull American forces out of the way has also quickly redounded to the gain of Russia and Iran, as well as the Islamic State, as the retreat reconfigures battle lines and alliances in the eight-year war.
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In response to the killing of Soleimani at Baghdad International Airport, Iraq's government is threatening to kick U.S. forces out of the country, a development that would risk Washington losing key gains in the fight against ISIS, its stated mission since returning to Iraq in 2014.
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He wrote that "tremendous progress" had been made in the fight against Islamic State militants since he assumed office two years ago, "especially over [the] last 5 weeks," when he abruptly announced they had already been defeated and that he would pull U.S. forces out of Syria.
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One of those risks: an incipient revolt by Republican hawks who are wary of the idea of pulling all U.S. forces out of the war-torn country over the next year, and have been registering their strong doubts about the deal in public statements and private text chains.
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The surprise attack on Soleimani, who built up Tehran's network of proxy armies across the Middle East and was a pivotal figure in orchestrating its campaign to drive U.S. forces out of Iraq, has plunged the region into a new crisis and raised fears of a wider war.
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But the Bosnian Serbs lean towards closer ties with Russia, aligning their policy with that of wartime patron and ally Serbia where NATO is hugely unpopular after its 1999 bombing campaign to drive Serbian forces out of Kosovo and after 1995 NATO air strikes against rebel Serbs in Bosnia.
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Read more: Former national security adviser Susan Rice called Trump's decision to pull US forces out of Syria 'bats--- crazy'"Turkey sets its own way when it comes to Turkey's national security as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed," Vice President Fuat Oktay said during a political event in the capital Ankara.
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Read more: Trump defended his controversial decision to pull US forces out of Syria in a rambling tweetstormThe withdrawal is set to allow Turkish troops to push into northern Syria and launch an offensive against the SDF, which has links with the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK in Kurdish.
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" Citing the example of Egypt, Mr. Malinowski added: "If you're going to send your security forces out to kill a bunch of Muslim Brotherhood leaders, knowing the U.S. is going to be in your face when it happens, and that it could have an impact on security cooperation, that's a factor.
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And there's a whole new suite of boards and task forces out there ready to help with this compliance--the SASB, or Sustainability Accounting Standards Board; the CDSB, or Climate Disclosure Standards Board; and the TCFD, or Task force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, of which BlackRock is a founding member.
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"Wes Bryant, a retired airman and co-author of "Hunting the Caliphate: America's War on ISIS," told Insider that Trump's decision to pull US forces out of northeastern Syria last week was "a betrayal, at least of people with whom we were fighting a common enemy," and called the decision "a strategic blunder.
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Military decisionsTroops surveyed by Military Times offered generally upbeat assessments of Trump&aposs steps in Afghanistan (59% said they approve of plans to negotiate with the Taliban and reduce troop levels there) and his promises to intervene less overseas (47% believe he will keep US forces out of another major military conflict).
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In addition, some diplomats noted that the pause essentially freezes a status quo that favors Mr. Assad and the Russians — and that Moscow may have been more amenable now since the airstrikes and Mr. Assad's ground operations have helped Mr. Assad regain control over much of the country's populated western areas, driving opposition forces out of Aleppo.
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" Finally, while Trump justified pulling American forces out of Syria because ISIS had been defeated, the report bluntly stated, once more in boldface, that "ISIS still commands thousands of fighters in Iraq and Syria, and it maintains eight branches, more than a dozen networks, and thousands of dispersed supporters around the world, despite significant leadership and territorial losses.
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Trump has repeatedly emphasized his desire to pull the U.S. out of the country after nearly two decades of conflict there, the Times noted, adding that U.S. negotiators initially attempted to convince the Taliban the U.S. was committed to remaining in the nation and the extremist group would not be able to wait U.S. forces out.
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"A letter came in from General Mazloum...that he had carried out all of his obligations under the arrangement that we had done with the Turks...to withdraw all YPG forces out of the Turkish-controlled safe zone," the senior administration official told reporters, referring to Mazloum Abdi, the head of Washington's former allies in the fight against Islamic State.
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News of the canceled meeting, which the sources attributed to Yildirim's busy work schedule, came as Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said Germany would begin pulling its forces out of Incirlik air force base in Turkey as the Turkish government will not allow all German lawmakers to visit troops therer Reporting by Ercan Gurses; Writing by Dominic Evans; Editing by Daren Butler
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Netanyahu will reportedly speak with Pompeo about the U.S. strategy in Syria as President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE continues to defend his decision to pull American forces out of the war-torn country.
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Rep. Ruben GallegoRuben Gallego22019 Democrats raise alarm about China's intellectual property theft Harris picks up endorsement from influential lawmaker as support slips Democratic lawmaker: Russia, China benefitting from continued US troop presence in Afghanistan MORE (D-Ariz.), a former Marine and Iraq war veteran, called on the Trump administration to pull U.S. forces out of Afghanistan, saying their presence runs counter to national interests.
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The needle digs into the grooves of the vinyl, and the record wobbles on the table, and Hannah's voice projects and penetrates, equipped with this idea that we're here—animals, people, different genders, sexual preferences, these dumb constructs—and we're all together, the same more or less, and actually there are much larger forces out there in the world we should be worried about.
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Cheney took issue with President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's views toward traditional allies such as NATO as well as his decisions to pull U.S. forces out of Syria and cancel large-scale military drills with South Korea.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump says he doesn't want NYT in the White House Veterans group backs lawsuits to halt Trump's use of military funding for border wall Schiff punches back after GOP censure resolution fails MORE on Monday said other countries — including China or Russia — should be responsible for protecting the U.S.-allied Kurds in northern Syria amid a groundswell of bipartisan criticism over his decision to pull American forces out of the region.
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Treasury Secretary Steven MnuchinSteven Terner MnuchinTop economic adviser warned Trump on reelection chances ahead of China truce: report The Hill's Morning Report - Tempers boil over at the White House Schumer seeks focus on health care amid impeachment fever MORE announced on Friday that Trump will sign an executive order expanding the administration's ability to impose sanctions on Turkish officials amid growing criticism over his decision to pull U.S. forces out of the country.
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Members of both parties have ripped Trump's recent decision to pull U.S. forces out of Syria, and last week two associates of Trump's attorney Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiTrump says he doesn't want NYT in the White House Diplomat who raised Ukraine concerns to testify in Trump impeachment probe Pelosi releases 'fact sheet' saying Trump has 'betrayed his oath of office' MORE were arrested for alleged campaign finance violations in a probe that is not yet complete.
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President Trump's decision to withdraw roughly 7,000 troops from Afghanistan, along with the resignation of his defense secretary, Jim Mattis, stirred fears in the Asia-Pacific region on Friday that the United States was abandoning its leadership of decades-old alliances crucial to stability and peace since World War II. The surprise announcements came after President Trump said he was pulling American forces out of Syria, a decision that prompted Mr. Mattis to resign with a statement about the need to "treat allies with respect and also being clear eyed" about potential enemies.
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Treasury Secretary Steven MnuchinSteven Terner MnuchinTop economic adviser warned Trump on reelection chances ahead of China truce: report The Hill's Morning Report - Tempers boil over at the White House Schumer seeks focus on health care amid impeachment fever MORE on Friday announced that President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump says he doesn't want NYT in the White House Veterans group backs lawsuits to halt Trump's use of military funding for border wall Schiff punches back after GOP censure resolution fails MORE will sign an executive order expanding the administration's ability to impose sanctions on Turkish officials as the president faces growing criticism over his decision to pull U.S. forces out of northern Syria.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDemocrats plow ahead as Trump seeks to hobble impeachment effort Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Senate Intelligence report triggers new calls for action on election security MORE (R-Ky.) on Monday warned President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE against pulling U.S. forces out of key positions in Syria, arguing that it "would only benefit Russia, Iran, and the Assad regime," which is responsible for thousands of civilian deaths.
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US to withdraw its troops in northeast Syria and pave the way for Turkish assaultThe US troop withdrawal from northern Syria could reinvigorate ISISTrump's shocking decision to pull US troops out of Syria could lead to thousands of ISIS fighters escaping from jail, Syrian official warnsTrump's decision to abandon the Kurds in Syria sends a dangerous message to US allies around the worldTrump threatens to 'totally destroy and obliterate' Turkey's economy if it takes 'off-limits' actions in SyriaLindsey Graham says Congress will call for Turkey to be suspended from NATO and hit it with sanctions if it attacks KurdsTrump defended his controversial decision to pull US forces out of Syria in a rambling tweetstorm
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