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President Trump, can the US act as global police and put ‘America first’?

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President Donald Trump has pledged to pursue an “America first” strategy both at home and internationally, but recent events in the Middle East have quickly put that practice to the test.

Lina Shahab is recovering in a hospital in Erbil, northern Iraq, after surviving an airstrike in Mosul.

‘I saw everything burning’: Iraqi survivors of a suspected US coalition airstrike speak

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Three men sit in rubble in white helmets

How to help: Some of the groups that worked to save Omran Daqneesh — and countless others — in Syria

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meet at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.

Putin makes Assad an offer he can’t refuse

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Iraqi security forces inspect the site of three explosions in the New Baghdad neighborhood on September 10, 2014.

The sound of US airstrikes returns to Baghdad

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