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Pelosi Statement on Airstrike in Iraq Against High-Level Iranian Military Officials — Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the Trump Administration conducted a deadly airstrike targeting Iranians and Iraqis at the Baghdad International Airport:
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Four Years Ago, Trump Had No Clue Who Iran's Suleimani Was. Now He May Have Kicked Off WWIII. — President Donald Trump makes a video call to the troops stationed worldwide at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 24, 2019. — Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
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Security Alert - U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, January 3, 2020 — Home الصفح ة الرئي سية | Security Alert - U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, January 3, 2020 — Event: Due to heightened tensions in Iraq and the region …
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Donald Trump's assassination of Qassem Suleimani will come back to haunt him — The Quds force leader had the status of national hero even among secular Iranians. His death could act as a rallying cry — The US has assassinated Qassem Suleimani, the famed leader of Iran's Quds force …
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Trump's Strike Has Drawn A Sharp Line Between The Democrats Running For President — The Democratic presidential candidates have split into an anti-war camp, led by Bernie Sanders, and a set of more nuanced responses to the killing of a key Iranian official, a rare and sharp contrast inside …
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U.S. Strike in Iraq Kills Qassim Suleimani, Commander of Iranian Forces — Suleimani was planning attacks on Americans across the region, leading to an airstrike in Baghdad, the Pentagon statement said. Iran's supreme leader called for vengeance. — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. …
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Trump Thinks Attacking Iran Will Get Him Reelected. He's Wrong. — Beginning in 2011, and continuing through the next year, Donald Trump began obsessively predicting that President Obama would start a war with Iran in order to be reelected. Trump stated it publicly, on at least a half-dozen occasions …
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The Killing of Qassem Suleimani Is Tantamount to an Act of War — On orders from President Trump, the United States killed Major General Qassem Suleimani, the leader of Iran's élite Quds Force and the mastermind of its military operations across the Middle East, in an overnight air strike at Baghdad's International Airport.
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Trump's Ground Game Against Iran — The assassination of Qassim Suleimani is a seismic event in the Middle East. — Mr. Doran is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and served in the departments of State and Defense, and on the National Security Council.
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“There will be dead Americans” as a result of Iran general being killed, ex-CIA deputy director says — The targeted killing of Qassem Soleimani, one of Iran's top military leaders, has escalated tensions between the U.S. and Iran, with Iran vowing revenge.
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The U.S. takes a war footing against Iran after Soleimani strike — President Trump, after warning three days ago that Iran would pay “a very BIG PRICE,” authorized a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport that killed Iran's top general and second most powerful official, Qasem Soleimani.
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Statement by the Department of Defense — At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
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Strait of Hormuz, the world's biggest oil chokepoint, in focus as U.S.-Iran tensions flare
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Trump says Iranian should have been ‘taken out’ years ago
Trump says Iranian should have been ‘taken out’ years ago
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Stanley McChrystal / Foreign Policy:
Iran's Deadly Puppet Master
Iran's Deadly Puppet Master
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Emily Singer / The American Independent:
Trump: Only a ‘weak’ and ‘ineffective’ president would start a war with Iran
Trump: Only a ‘weak’ and ‘ineffective’ president would start a war with Iran
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Why the Death of an Iranian Commander Won't Mean World War III
Why the Death of an Iranian Commander Won't Mean World War III
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's Iran strike demands a serious response from Democrats
Trump's Iran strike demands a serious response from Democrats
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Iranian General Traveled With Impunity, Until U.S. Drones Found Him
Iranian General Traveled With Impunity, Until U.S. Drones Found Him
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John Leicester / Associated Press:
‘A more dangerous world’: Iran killing triggers global alarm
‘A more dangerous world’: Iran killing triggers global alarm
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Andrew Exum / The Atlantic:
Iran Loses Its Indispensable Man
Iran Loses Its Indispensable Man
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POLITICO Playbook: Trump just made his most consequential decision as president
POLITICO Playbook: Trump just made his most consequential decision as president
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
America's enemies are calling Trump's bluffs
America's enemies are calling Trump's bluffs
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
The United States Is Now at War With Iran
The United States Is Now at War With Iran
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Top Senate Democrats Received No Advance Notice Of U.S. Strike On Iran General
Top Senate Democrats Received No Advance Notice Of U.S. Strike On Iran General
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Trump Calls the Ayatollah's Bluff
Trump Calls the Ayatollah's Bluff
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Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Graham Says That He Was Briefed On Soleimani Strike During Golf Trip With Trump
Graham Says That He Was Briefed On Soleimani Strike During Golf Trip With Trump
Steve Hayes / The Dispatch:
The Morning Dispatch: Qassem Suleimani Is Dead
The Morning Dispatch: Qassem Suleimani Is Dead
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Qassim Suleimani, Master of Iran's Intrigue, Built a Shiite Axis of Power in Mideast
Qassim Suleimani, Master of Iran's Intrigue, Built a Shiite Axis of Power in Mideast
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What Trump said about Obama and war with Iran, and what it means now
What Trump said about Obama and war with Iran, and what it means now
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Qassim Abdul-zahra / Associated Press:
Iran's Gen. Soleimani killed in airstrike at Baghdad airport
Iran's Gen. Soleimani killed in airstrike at Baghdad airport
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Our Poll Finds A Majority Of Americans Think The Evidence Supports Trump's Removal — After the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump on Dec. 18, the president's fate is in the Senate's hands. The process for the trial still isn't clear, but there are signs that it will likely …
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Why Democrats say they might not vote to convict Trump — Senate Democrats are expected to almost unanimously declare President Donald Trump guilty at the end of his impeachment trial. But senators across the party's spectrum insist they haven't made up their mind.
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Roe Retiring: Congressman won't seek another term — Tennessee Congressman Phil Roe is not running for re-election. The six-term Republican announced Friday morning he will not seek a seventh term in 2020. Roe was first elected to Congress in 2008 by defeating incumbent David Davis in the Republican primary.
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Congressman Roe: “Thank you for giving me the opportunity to represent East Tennessee.”
Congressman Roe: “Thank you for giving me the opportunity to represent East Tennessee.”
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United Methodist Church is expected to split over gay marriage, fracturing the nation's third-largest denomination — Church leaders said Friday they had agreed to spin off a “traditionalist Methodist” denomination, and allow the remainder of the denomination to permit same-sex marriage …
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Ex-Fox News reporter Courtney Friel claims Donald Trump invited her to Trump Tower to ‘kiss’ — Former Fox News reporter Courtney Friel says Donald Trump called her with a creepy come-on before he became president — while they were both married. — Friel, who sometimes worked as a fill …