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NSA Leak Suspect Reality Winner Wrote ‘burn the White House Down’

A 25-year-old intelligence contractor accused of leaking a top secret report on Russian meddling in last year's US...

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Iraq On Cusp of Mosul Victory Three Years After Major Defeat

Three years after the Islamic State group routed them in Mosul, Iraqi forces are now on the cusp of retaking the city...

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Iran Turns Wrath On US, Saudi Over Attacks

Iran's supreme leader hit out at the United States and Saudi Arabia during the funerals Friday for those slain in the...

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Turkey Says Iraqi Kurds’ Referendum Plan A ‘grave Mistake’

Turkey on Friday warned that a decision by Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region to hold an independence referendum would be...

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Iran Attacks ‘reinforce Hatred’ For US, Saudi

The attacks in Tehran this week will only "reinforce hatred" for the United States and Saudi Arabia, Iran's supreme...

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Arrivals From Travel Ban Countries Plunge Despite Ban Being On Ice

Arrivals in the United States from the six mostly Muslim countries in President Donald Trump's travel ban have plunged...

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US Arrivals Plunge From 6 Countries Hit By Trump Travel Ban

Arrivals in the United States from the six mostly Muslim countries in President Donald Trump's travel ban have plunged...

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Qatar’s Al-Jazeera Says Battling Cyber Attack

Qatar-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera said Thursday that it was under a widescale cyber attack which had targeted "all...

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Turkey In ‘difficult Position’ Over Support For Qatar

Turkey is keen to support its close ally Qatar in a diplomatic crisis with Doha's Gulf neighbours, but has found itself...

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Qatar ‘places Its Armed Forces On “highest Alert Level

Qatar has called its tanks into action and warned neighbours that it will open fire on any ships that come into its...

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International Efforts Intensify To Resolve Qatar Dispute In Gulf

Efforts to resolve a diplomatic dispute pitting Saudi Arabia and its allies against Qatar intensified Thursday, after...

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Five Iranian Attackers Were In Mosul, Raqa With IS

The five men who carried out twin attacks in Tehran were Iranians who joined the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria...

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Fierce Clashes As US-Backed Force Battles IS In Syria’s Raqa

US-backed fighters fought fierce battles Thursday as they tried to push further into the Islamic State group's Syrian...

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Next Round of Astana Syria Talks Delayed

Russian-backed peace talks on Syria in Astana have been pushed back, Kazakhstan's foreign ministry said Thursday, as...

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Qatar Says State News Agency First Hacked In April

Qatari investigators have said that a cyber attack which saw the publication of explosive fake news last month that...

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GCC Nations Issue More Threats Against Qatar

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) threatened to impose an economic embargo against Qatar while Bahrain said "any options"...

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Iran Says Trump Reaction To Attacks ‘repugnant’

Iran denounced Donald Trump's reaction to deadly Islamic State group attacks in Tehran as "repugnant" on Thursday after...

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Japan’s Kagawa Out of Iraq Football World Cup Clash

Japan suffered a blow Thursday when playmaker Shinji Kagawa was ruled out of next week's World Cup qualifier against...

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Myanmar Joins Grim List of Global Military Air Disasters

Myanmar's navy on Thursday found bodies and plane debris in the Andaman Sea from an aircraft that was carrying more...