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Iraqi forces appear poised to... . File -- In this Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016 file photo, Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces gather ahead of an operation to re-take the Islamic State-held City of Mosul, outside Irbil, Iraq.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, arrives for a meeting to discuss the crisis in Syria, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other top diplomats will discuss a "multilateral approach" to ending the Syria war after a bilateral approach by Moscow and Washington to ensure a cease-fire collapsed.
Protesters hold up pictures of Jordanian King Abdullah and pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh with national flags, as they chant slogans during a rally in Amman to show their loyalty to the King and against the Islamic State, February 5, 2015. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed When the Islamic State burned a Jordanian pilot to death in a cage in February 2015, King Abdullah of Jordan vowed to crush ISIS until his military runs "out of fuel and bullets."
Donald Trump challenged Hillary Clinton to return the tens of millions of dollars she has accepted from Saudi Arabian donors, and called again for a special prosecutor to look into her alleged crimes as Secretary of State. The hacked emails released by Wikileaks "make more clear than ever just how much is at stake come November 8. Such an important day.
The small Persian Gulf nation of Qatar found an unusual way to say 'happy birthday' to former President Bill Clinton: a $1 million check to the Clinton Foundation. The existence of the 'birthday' check was revealed in newly dumped documents on Wikileaks hacked from Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta.
In this Thursday Oct. 13 photo released by U.S. Navy, the guided missile destroyer USS Nitze launches a strike against coastal sites in Houthi-controlled territory on Yemen's Red Sea coast. WASHINGTON - U.S.-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles destroyed three coastal radar sites in Houthi-controlled territory on Yemen's Red Sea Coast early Thursday, officials said, a retaliatory action that followed two incidents this week in which missiles were fired at U.S. Navy ships.
The strikes marked the first shots fired by the U.S. in anger against the Houthis in Yemen's long-running civil war. The U.S. previously only provided logistical support and refueling to the Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen's Shiite rebels known as Houthis and their allies, including supporters of Yemen's former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
"The provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. ... The United States of America should be prepared to use military force, to strike military targets of Bashar Assad regime."
President Barack Obama issued waivers to seven countries that employ child soldiers, issuing them millions of dollars in military assistance. Obama must issue waivers to get around the 2008 Child Soldiers Prevention Act, which prohibits U.S. military assistance to countries which use child soldiers on the battlefield.
The White House accused Israel of a betrayal of trust Wednesday, in an unusually sharp rebuke over its plans to build hundreds of new settlement homes deep in the West Bank. Days after President Barack Obama approved a $38 billion Israeli military aid package and attended former president Shimon Peres's funeral in Jerusalem, the White House railed at the construction of 300 housing units on land "far closer to Jordan than Israel."
Group including Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire aimed 'to highlight the vital role women play not only in the resistance movement, but in the survival of the Palestinian people as a whole'. The Israeli navy on Wednesday stopped a boat carrying international female activists, preventing them from breaking the blockade of Gaza.
In October 2015 began what has been in turn called a wave of unrest, a Palestinian upheaval, or even the "Jerusalem Intifada." Whatever the name, the past year has seen an intensification of deadly violence in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel.
In this March 20, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres, left, are photographed through a window and the crowd as they are greeted by children waving Israeli and American flags upon their arrival at the Peres' residence in Jerusalem. Support for Israel has been a mainstay of American foreign policy since the Jewish state's creation in 1948.
The oil revenue-sharing deal sealed in August was critical to getting the central and regional governments to coordinate planning for a push on the Islamic State stronghold Mosul, which Kurdish peshmerga forces surround on three sides, as soon as this month, the sources said. Brett McGurk shuttled from Iraqi Kurdistan capital Erbil to Baghdad and back again from the first half of April, culminating in a June 19 meeting in Erbil with Kurdistan Regional Government leader Massoud Barzani and Iraqi National Security Advisor Falah Fayad.
The Pentagon announced on August 9 that the State Department had approved the potential sale of more than 130 Abrams battle tanks, 20 armored recovery vehicles and other equipment to Saudi Arabia... There are Republicans and Democrats-a bipartisan coalition, however great or small their numbers-who reject America's longstanding foreign policy consensus and seek a more sober look at national security and foreign affairs. Rand Paul, R-Ky., that would have blocked a $1.15 billion proposed sale of tanks and other weapons.
Israelis mourn as they visit the grave of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, after his burial ceremony at the Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jerusalem, on September 30, 2016. The family of former president Shimon Peres, who was laid to rest Friday in a state funeral attended by dozens of world leaders, began the Jewish mourning tradition of shiva on Saturday evening.
The White House on Friday corrected a press release on President Barack Obama's remarks at late Israeli President Shimon Peres' funeral to clarify their location. The original version of the remarks identified the location as Jerusalem, Israel.
Israeli leader Shimon Peres was eulogized at a cemetery ceremony in Jerusalem on Friday by President Barack Obama and other world leaders. Peres, who held government positions since Israel's 1948 founding and was president, prime minister, cabinet member, parliament member and Nobel Prize laureate in his long career, died Wednesday at 93 after a stroke.
U.S. President Barack Obama condoles family members, after the burial ceremony at the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres on Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016.