Category - Middle East

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Hezbollah Isn’t Broke. So Why Is Everyone Claiming Otherwise? – Tablet Magazine

3 months ago

“Terrorist groups like Hezbollah are withering on the vine as Iran sanctions take effect,” Sen. Tom Cotton tweeted last week, voicing what has now grow to be a...

‘willful blindness to danger of Iran’ • ex-president ‘looked the other way’ on Hezbollah • Fashion • Middle East • Pompeo repudiates Obama Mideast policies • Trump reversed ‘timidness’

Pompeo repudiates Obama Mideast policies, ‘willful blindness to danger of Iran’

7 months ago

CAIRO — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a scathing rebuke of the Obama administration’s Mideast insurance policies on Thursday as he denounced the...

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump claims innocence in probe; wall myths

8 months ago

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s super-talkative, fact-busting week

8 months ago

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‘The toughest year’: US immigration changes dominated 2018

8 months ago

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The Mediterranean’s deadliest shipwreck just got deadlier

8 months ago

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s trade claims, Paris protesters’ chant

9 months ago

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Former President George H.W. Bush dies at age 94

9 months ago

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Read the transcript of AP’s interview with President Trump

10 months ago

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China distances children from families to subdue Muslim west

11 months ago

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