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They came under fire during a joint reconnaissance patrol with Nigerien forces in southwest Niger, which borders Mali, Chad, and Nigeria. (iStock)
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Is the Pentagon really going to excuse strategic and financial incompetence, all while bolstering China?

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The CIA has released the bulk of the Osama bin Laden documents, which show just how deep Iran-al Qaeda links are. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File)
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The real scandal of the declassified Osama bin Laden trove implicates Obama and the CIA

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An Iraqi soldier inspects a recently-discovered train tunnel, adorned with an Islamic State group flag, that belonged to the former Baghdad to Mosul line, that was turned it to a training camp for IS fighters, in western Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, March 1. 2017.
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Why is YouTube undercutting anti-ISIS efforts?

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Federal Iraqi security forces gather outside the Kurdish hold City of Altun Kupri, outskirts of Irbil, Iraq, Thursday Oct. 19. 2017. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Iraq may have just turned the corner from chaos to stability

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Simply put, Spain is getting a taste of its own medicine. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Spain gets what it deserves on Catalonia’s separatism

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Photos, documentaries, and other media capturing Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's elite Qods Force, push the message Iran's role is more pervasive and effective than it actually may be.
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Why is Iranian master terrorist Qassem Soleimani distributing photos of himself in Iraq?

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The events of the last week weakened Iran's real proxies among Iraqi politicians tremendously. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Take it from me: Kirkuk was not an Iranian defeat of America

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This image made from a video provided by RUDAW TV shows what the Irbil-based Kurdish broadcaster says are Peshmerga fighters and volunteers arriving on military trucks in Kirkuk, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. (RUDAW TV via AP)
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Kurds must know rhetoric can never substitute for reality

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Against the backdrop of the Kirkuk crisis, it was Qassem Soleimani who brokered a deal between the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Shiite militias, and the Iraqi federal government to avoid bloodshed. (AP Photo/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)
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Iran’s real foreign minister isn’t who you think it is

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Harvard University will host a panel Monday with four former Obama administration officials. It seems at Harvard that racial and gender diversity are the end-all and be-all defining perspectives, but there is no quarter given to ideological diversity. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Harvard demonstrates what’s wrong with universities in one single-minded panel

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