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Bashar al-Assad

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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A fighter from the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, flashes a victory sign as he patrols the streets in the northern Syrian town of Kobane on January 28, 2015.

Antique weapons combined with high-tech airpower pushed ISIS out of Kobane

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A Kurdish peshmerga fighter holds up a piece of clothing worn by an ISIS fighter on December 18, 2014. Kurdish peshmerga fighters have fought their way to Iraq's Sinjar mountain and freed hundreds of people trapped there by ISIS.

Kurdish fighters finally end the months-long siege of Mount Sinjar

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Smoke rises after a US-led air strike in the Syrian town of Kobane on October 8, 2014.

Airstrikes in Kobane aren’t relieving the desperation among Kurdish refugees

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