Author: Karen Deyoung
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Trump announces plans to pull out of Iran nuclear deal despite pleas from European leaders
President Trump on Tuesday announced that he is withdrawing from the international nuclear deal with Iran and reimposing U.S. sanctions against Tehran, according to people familiar with the matter. Trump’s decision, announced at the White House, follows the failure of last-ditch efforts by Britain, France and Germany to convince him that his concerns about “flaws” in…
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State Dept. letter could pave way for deportation of 300,000 immigrants with protected status
More than 300,000 Central Americans and Haitians living in the United States under a form of temporary permission no longer need to be shielded from deportation, the U.S. Department of State told Homeland Security officials this week, a few days ahead of a highly anticipated DHS announcement about whether to renew that protection. On Tuesday,…
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Pentagon deployed elite commandos to Niger fearing that militants were hunting missing soldier, US officials say
The Pentagon deployed elite commandos from the United States in response to the deadly ambush of a Special Forces team in Niger, fearing that one soldier who was missing at the time was alive and might fall into enemy hands, military officials said. The commandos, with the secretive Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), were deployed…
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Trump had undisclosed hour-long meeting with Putin at G-20 Summit
After his much-publicized, two-and a quarter-hour meeting early this month with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Group of 20 summit in Germany, President Trump met informally with the Russian leader for an additional hour later the same day. The second meeting, unreported at the time, took place at a dinner for G20 leaders, a…
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U.S. on collision course with Syria and Iran once de facto Islamic State capital falls
Trump administration officials, anticipating the defeat of the Islamic State in its de facto Syrian capital of Raqqa, are planning for what they see as the next stage of the war, a complex fight that will bring them into direct conflict with Syrian government and Iranian forces contesting control of a vast desert stretch in…
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Freed Egyptian American prisoner returns home following Trump intervention
An Egyptian American charity worker who was imprisoned in Cairo for three years and became the global face of Egypt’s brutal crackdown on civil society returned home to the United States late Thursday after the Trump administration quietly negotiated her release. President Trump and his aides worked for several weeks with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah…
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Bannon removed from security council as McMaster asserts control
President Trump on Wednesday removed controversial White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon from the National Security Council, part of a sweeping staff reshuffling that elevated military, intelligence and Cabinet officials to greater roles on the council and left Bannon less directly involved in shaping the administration’s day-to-day national security policy. The restructuring reflects the…
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Trump, Obama on possible collision course over Israeli settlement vote
President-elect Donald Trump warned the Obama administration Thursday against a possible abstention in a key U.N. Security Council vote that would declare illegal all Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory in the West Bank and the mostly Arab East Jerusalem. The resolution, initially scheduled for a 3 p.m. vote, urges Israelis and Palestinians to commit to…
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In review of Afghan strategy, Obama held out for faster surge
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, seated at the head of a conference table strewn with papers in the White House Situation Room, stared at charts showing various options for sending additional U.S. troops into Afghanistan.He and his top national security advisers had been debating the way forward for two full months. On this day, Nov.…
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Frustration and progress in Iraq
Gen. David Petraeus, left, and Ambassador Ryan Crocker testified on the course of the war in Iraq at a House hearing Monday. Photo by (AP)