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US allies and senior Republicans have responded with alarm to the Trump administration’s decision to pull troops out of northern Syria, paving the way(...)

US director of national intelligence to step down in August
- US
- July 29, 2019, 07:45
US director of national intelligence Dan Coats is to leave his job next month after a two-year tenure marked by Donald Trump’s regular clashes with in(...)

Trump may have backed himself into a corner over Iran
- US
- June 21, 2019, 19:30
The shooting down of a US surveillance drone by Iran this week and America’s equivocal response opens a new front in the increasingly tense standoff b(...)

US-backed fighters expect ‘fierce battle’ with Islamic State
- Middle East
- March 1, 2019, 16:49
US-backed Syrian fighters said on Friday they expect a fierce battle with Islamic State militants still holed up in their last enclave in eastern Syr(...)

Trump says US may declare Isis defeated next week
- US
- February 7, 2019, 15:49
US president Donald Trump has said he expected a formal announcement as early as next week that the coalition fighting Islamic State militants has rec(...)

US consensus on troop withdrawal dangerously interventionist
- US
- February 7, 2019, 04:00
Zhou Enlai’s supposed judgment on the French Revolution has always looked unbeatable for magisterial long-termism. “Too soon to tell,” the Chinese pre(...)

US court clears way for Trump’s restrictions on transgender troops
- US
- January 22, 2019, 15:31
The US supreme court on Tuesday let president Donald Trump enforce his policy barring certain transgender people from joining or staying in the milita(...)

US president Donald Trump has cancelled the US delegation’s trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos as the impasse over the US government shutdown d(...)

China sentences Canadian to death for drug smuggling
- Asia-Pacific
- January 14, 2019, 15:27
A Canadian citizen convicted of drug smuggling in China has been sentenced to death by a Chinese court in the north-eastern port city of Dalian, overt(...)

Erdogan snub exposes US disarray on withdrawal from Syria
- US
- January 8, 2019, 21:00
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s public snubbing of US national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday is the latest sign of the disarray surrounding President(...)