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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife Susan are greeted by Saudi's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir in Riyadh on Sunday, January 13, 2019, during his Middle East tour. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)
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Pompeo Discusses Jamal Khashoggi Murder With Saudi King Salman, MBS
By Matthew Lee, AP
"Every single person who has responsibility for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi needs to held accountable,” Pompeo said to reporters.
UNITED STATES - MAY 17: Reps. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, and Brian Mast, R-Fla., conduct a news conference in Rayburn Building on the Burn Pits Accountability Act, which evaluates the 'exposure of U.S. service members and veterans to open burn pits and toxic airborne chemicals,' on May 17, 2018. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
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POLITICS
Tulsi Gabbard's 2020 Plan Threatens The New Left Foreign Policy Of Sanders And Warren
By Akbar Shahid Ahmed
The Hawaii congresswoman claims to represent the rising left but has ties to authoritarianism and Islamophobia abroad.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he delivers a speech to MPs of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019. Erdogan said Turkey's preparations for a new military offensive against terror groups in Syria are "to a large extent" complete. Erdogan made the comments just hours after U.S. national security adviser John Bolton met with Turkish officials seeking assurances that Turkey won't attack U.S-allied Kurdish militia in Syria. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
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Bolton Gets No Assurances From Turkey On Safety Of Kurdish Allies In Syria
By Zeke Miller, AP
John Bolton will leave Turkey without meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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John Bolton Says Certain Conditions Must Be Met Before U.S. Withdraws From Syria
By Zeke Miller, AP
President Donald Trump's national security adviser appeared to backpedal on the president's initial promise for an immediate pullout.
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MEDIA
Rachel Maddow Breaks Down Where Donald Trump Gets His Conspiracy Theories
By Lee Moran
The MSNBC host noted how Trump's foreign policy talking points sometimes sound very familiar.
U.S. President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Mike Pompeo, U.S. secretary of state, during a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, June 21, 2018. Trump said he is ordering federal agencies to reunite immigrant families that were split by his administration's policy separating parents from children when they were caught illegally crossing the U.S. border with Mexico. Photographer: Yuri Gripas/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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OPINION
Mike Pompeo Is The Spineless Personification Of Donald Trump's Nihilist Foreign Policy
By Richard North Patterson, Columnist
His sycophancy stands in stark contrast to Jim Mattis' principled resignation.
Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy for the global coalition against IS, speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 7, 2017. McGurk says the fight for Raqqa, the Islamic State group's de facto capital, will "only accelerate" as the militants lose their grip on Iraq's Mosul. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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U.S. Envoy To Anti-ISIS Coalition Brett McGurk Quits Over Trump's Syria Move
He accelerated his plan to leave by around two months after Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced his own departure.
U.S. Rep. Rohit 'Ro' Khanna, from California's 17th Congressional District centered in Santa Clara and other parts of California's Silicon Valley, is interviewed in Los Angeles Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Democrats Against Military Interventions Cautiously Praise Trump On Afghanistan
By Akbar Shahid Ahmed
But if the troop pullout proceeds amid Trump-style chaos, advocates for a less hawkish foreign policy could face a big setback.
This picture shows a US army vehicle supporting the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Hajin, in the Deir Ezzor province, eastern Syria, on December 15, 2018. - Kurdish-led forces seized the Islamic State's main hub of Hajin on December 14, a milestone in a massive and costly US-backed operation to eradicate the jihadists from eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces secured Hajin, the largest settlement in what is the last pocket of territory controlled by IS, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Kurdish-Led U.S. Ally In Syria Says Withdrawing Troops Will Aid Islamic State
The Syrian Democratic Forces said that a premature U.S. pullout would have a destabilizing effect on the entire region.
Certfa researchers Nariman Gharib, left, and Amin Sabeti look at a computer at a cafe in London on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. The Associated Press drew on data gathered by the London-based cybersecurity group Certfa to track how a hacking group often nicknamed Charming Kitten spent the past month trying to break into the private emails of more than a dozen U.S. Treasury officials. Also on the hackers’ hit list: high-profile defenders, detractors and enforcers of the nuclear deal struck between Washington and Tehran, as well as Arab atomic scientists, Iranian civil society figures and D.C. think tank employees. (AP Photo/Raphael Satter)
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Iran-Linked Hackers Target Private Emails Of Nuclear Scientists, Sanctions Officials
By Raphael Satter, AP
The attempts to break in to emails of U.S. Treasury officials, Arab atomic scientists and D.C. think-tank employees illustrate Tehran's espionage priorities.
In this image made from video taken on March 2, 2017, Michael Spavor, director of Paektu Cultural Exchange, talks during a Skype interview in Yangi, China. A second Canadian man is feared detained in China in what appears to be retaliation for Canada's arrest of a top executive of telecommunications giant Huawei. The possible arrest raises the stakes in an international dispute that threatens relations. Canada's Global Affairs department on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, said Spavor, an entrepreneur who is one of the only Westerners to have met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, had gone missing in China. Spavor's disappearance follows China's detention of a former Canadian diplomat in Beijing earlier this week. (AP Photo)
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Detention Of 2 Canadians Raises Stakes In China-U.S.-Canada Dispute
By Christopher Bodeen and Rob Gillies, AP
The two cases ratchet up pressure on Canada, which is holding Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies.
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 20: President Donald Trump shows off posters as he talks with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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OPINION
Congress Must Cancel Donald Trump's Corrupt Bargain With Saudi Arabia's MBS
By Richard North Patterson, Columnist
America's moral and strategic interests depend on cutting that tie.
***FILE PHOTO*** George H.W. Bush Has Passed Away Washington, DC., USA, October 4, 1991 President George H.W. Bush conducts a mini news conference in the press briefing room of the White House. Credit: Mark Reinstein/MediaPunch /IPX
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POLITICS
George H.W. Bush Was The Last President To Really Get Tough With Israel
By Daniel Marans
If other presidents had followed suit, it might have altered the course of Middle East history.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, on her foreign policy vision for the country. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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OPINION
The Progressive Foreign Policy Debate Is Finally Here
By Stephen Miles and Kate Kizer, Guest Writers
Two of the Democrats' 2020 front-runners have now offered compelling visions for America's role in the world.
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands during a joint statement to members of the media Great Hall of the People, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, in Beijing, China. Trump is on a five country trip through Asia traveling to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Donald Trump, Xi Jinping Agree To Trade Truce At G-20 Summit
By Dominique Mosbergen
The U.S. has agreed to delay a planned Jan. 1 tariff increase to allow the two powers to iron out their trade differences.
President Donald Trump listens to questions from members of the media during his meeting with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G20 Summit, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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G-20 Nations Agree On Trade, Migration; Trump Lone Holdout On Climate Change
By Angela Charlton, Luis Andres Henao and Peter Orsi, AP
Leaders of 19 countries agreed to support the Paris accord on fighting climate change with the U.S. the lone holdout.
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - NOVEMBER 30: (RUSSIA OUT) (L-R) French President Emmanuel Macron, U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese President Shizno Abe gather with other world leaders for the family photo on the opening day of G20 Summit on November 30, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
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Trump Vs The World: G-20 Summit Stumbles On Trade, Climate
By Angela Charlton, Peter Orsi and Luiz Andres Henao, AP
President Donald Trump used the summit in Argentina to make his own trade deals.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks at the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, on her foreign policy vision for the country. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Elizabeth Warren Brings Her Anti-Corruption Message In Major Foreign Policy Speech
By Paul Blumenthal
It sure looks like she's running.
President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Big Senate Majority Rebukes Trump Administration, Saudi Arabia Over Yemen War
By Akbar Shahid Ahmed and Igor Bobic
The win for the effort from Sens. Bernie Sanders, Chris Murphy and Mike Lee is the first majority vote in Congress to end the 3-year-old U.S. policy in Yemen.
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 31: Former Saudi Ambassador to the United States Turki Al Faisal Al-Saud speaks during the 27th annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers conference on 'What Paths Forward for America In and With the Arab Region,' hosted by the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, October 31, 2018 in Washington, DC. Ambassador Turki Al Faisal Al-Saud delivered keynote address on 'How Best to Proceed in the U.S.-Arab Relationship?' (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Saudi Royal Says Crown Prince Is Here To Stay
By Aya Batrawy, Associated Press
A prominent Saudi royal said Saturday that whether or not heads of state gathered in Argentina next week for the Group of 20 summit warmly engage with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, he is someone “that they have to deal with.”
Mike Pompeo says US probe of Jamal Khashoggi's death will take a 'handful more weeks' before possible sanctions come into play
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Pompeo Says 'Handful More Weeks' Before U.S. Responds To Khashoggi Killing
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi went to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 to collect some documents, but he never reappeared.
TOPSHOT - A man wades through floodwaters in the village of Lei Yu Mun during Super Typhoon Mangkhut in Hong Kong on September 16, 2018. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images)
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A Progressive Foreign Policy Should Revolve Around Climate Change
By Matthew Miles Goodrich, Guest Writer
It's an opportunity to tell a story of how the world works.
Saudi Arabia on Friday night admitted that the missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in its Istanbul consulate, according to state media. "The discussions between Jamal Khashoggi and those he met at the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul... devolved into a fistfight, leading to his death," the Saudi Press Agency said, citing the public prosecutor. So far, 18 Saudi nationals have been arrested and deputy intelligence chief Ahmad al-Assiri and Saud al-Qahtani, a senior aide to Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince, have been dismissed, state TV reported. The Saudi government has been under days of intense pressure to explain what happened to the dissident journalist after he entered the consulate more than two weeks ago. Turkish government sources alleged the Washington Post columnist was tortured, murdered and his body dismembered by a Saudi hit squad flown in from Riyadh. However, reports circulated for days that the kingdom was preparing to suggest it was an interrogation or rendition effort that spiralled out of control - an explanation that would insulate the crown prince from responsibility for the journalist's death. And the release of a statement suggesting a fight was met with immediate incredulity by critics of Saudi Arabia. Lindsey Graham, an American senator, wrote on Twitter:  "To say that I am sceptical of the new Saudi narrative about Mr Khashoggi is an understatement." Antonio Guterres, UN secretary-general, is "deeply troubled" by the admission, said a spokesman. The UN chief called for a "prompt, thorough, transparent" probe into the circumstances of Khashoggi's death and urged full accountability for those who were involved. The White House offered its deepest condolences to Khashoggi's family. "We will continue to follow the international investigations into this tragic incident and advocate for justice that is timely, transparent, and in accordance with all due process," it said. Mohammed bin Salman's reputation as a reformer has come under scrutiny amid questions over Khashoggi's death Credit: Francois Mori/AP One of the dismissed figures, Al-Assiri was reputedly one of the crown prince’s favourite generals. According to reports in Saudi Arabia, he at some point attended Sandhurst military academy in the UK. He gained a high profile as a spokesman for the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen. As well as the dismissal of key security officials, on Friday night King Salman ordered the restructuring of the command of the general intelligence agency under the supervision of the crown prince.  The official Saudi press agency added the order also included updating regulations, determining the agency's powers, and evaluating its methods and procedures. The moves suggest an effort to limit damage the diplomatic fall-out. The alleged killing has sent shockwaves through the world, dwarfing outrage over the kingdom’s recent arrest of women’s rights activists and its involvement in the deaths of civilians in the war in Yemen. The disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi In the past few days, foreign diplomats have suspended scheduled visits to the kingdom and more than two dozen senior officials and executives from the US and Europe have cancelled plans to attend the Future Investment Initiative, dubbed the “Davos of the Desert”. The announcement that Khashoggi was killed at the consulate will heap more pressure on Britain to act against Saudi Arabia. Jeremy Hunt had earlier warned there would be "consequences" for the UK's relationship with Saudi Arabia if it was found the journalist was murdered. The Foreign Secretary said the Government remained "extremely concerned" about his fate after he went missing when he visited the consulate more than two weeks ago to get paperwork so he could marry. His warning came as former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers said "all the evidence" suggested that Mr Khashoggi had been murdered on the orders of someone close to the crown prince.
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Saudi Arabia Is Wrapping Up Its Jamal Khashoggi Investigation, But More Credible Alternatives Remain
By Akbar Shahid Ahmed
Fundamental questions remain about the journalist's death after the kingdom's Friday night announcement, and it's unlikely Saudi critics abroad will be satisfied.
El presidente ruso Vladimir Putin hace declaraciones durante una reunión del Club Internacional de Discusión Valdai en Sochi, Rusia, el jueves 18 de octubre de 2018. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Pool del Kremlin vía AP)
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Putin Hails Sunset of U.S. Global Domination Due To Mounting 'Mistakes'
By Mary Papenfuss
"Luckily this monopoly is disappearing. It's almost done," the Russian president said in his annual foreign policy speech.
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Australia Takes Trump’s Lead, Considers Moving Israeli Embassy To Jerusalem
By David Barden
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has shown no signs of backing down as his decision angers members of the international community.
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Joe Biden: Any Dem Presidential Candidate Would Handle Foreign Policy Better Than Trump
By Willa Frej
And any Democratic contender could easily defeat Trump, Biden said.
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