The New YorkerPolitical Humor Trump Offers Freed ISIS Fighters a Group Rate at Trump Doral ResortThe New Yorker - Andy BorowitzWASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Calling it a “once-in-a-lifetime incredible deal,” Donald Trump on Friday offered recently-escaped ISIS fighters a group rate at the Trump National Doral Miami. “I am ISIS
HuffPostRick Santorum ‘This Is Really Bad’: Rick Santorum Has An Ominous 2020 Warning For TrumpHuffPost - Ed MazzaThe president's most loyal voters are turning on him, the former Pennsylvania senator says. Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) warned President Donald Trump that he’s rapidly losing Republican voters
Liberal View ‘Moscow Mitch’ McConnell rips Trump for ‘grave strategic mistake’ in blistering Washington Post op-edrawstory.com - Brad Reed President Donald Trump is relying upon Republican senators voting to acquit him in an expected impeachment trial, but his decision to abandon …
MSNBCPolitics Trump doesn't seem to realize he was 'outmaneuvered' in Mideast dealMSNBC - Steve Benen Donald Trump beamed with pride yesterday announcing a “cease-fire” agreement in Turkey negotiated by a U.S. delegation. The American president wrote …
Guardian USDonald Trump 'He earned his spurs from a doctor': Gen James Mattis mocks TrumpGuardian US - Ed Pilkington in New YorkDonald Trump’s first defense secretary, Gen James Mattis, has finally spoken out in public over his former boss, depicting the president as a lazy draft dodger – but only in the form of jokes. Mattis advantage
EsquireKurdistan Donald Trump Refers to Ethnic Cleansing as 'Rough Love' at Dallas RallyEsquire - By Gabrielle BruneyPresident Trump’s betrayal of Syrian Kurds became even more horrifying on Thursday, when he described their communities as needing to be “cleaned out” by invading Turkish forces. “So you have a 22-mile
The New York Timesflipped into WorldWorld News Turkish President Slams Trump’s Letter for ‘Lack of Respect’The New York Times - Marc SantoraPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey accused President Trump on Friday of having broken with “diplomatic and political courtesy” by sending him a letter threatening to destroy the Turkish economy he
MSNBCPoliticsFormer Presidential ISIS envoy: For the President to say, let them go at it and we'll come in to fix it, that's total ignoranceMSNBC - MSNBC.com President Trump's former ISIS envoy Brett McGurk joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss the President's latest actions and comments on Turkey and …
The Guardianflipped into US NewsDonald Trump General discontent: how the president's military men turned on TrumpGuardian US - Ed Pilkington in New YorkFour-star US generals and admirals are a taciturn bunch: they measure their words, qualify their statements and guard their silence out of loyalty to the armed forces and to their country. A torrent of
Bloombergflipped into BloombergAsia Trump Baffles With Claim to Have Taken Control of Mideast OilBloomberg - Stephen Cunningham President Donald Trump prompted a bout of head-scratching when he said the U.S. had control of the Middle East’s oil. Trump made the comments twice on …
Rolling StonePolitics Disregarding Pence Deal, Turkey Launches Deadly AirstrikeRolling Stone - Tessa Stuart A Turkish airstrike has reportedly killed five civilians hours after President Donald Trump hailed a ceasefire agreement negotiated by his vice …
Conservative View Turkey Agrees to a Cease Fire and Mitt Romney Is Really Madredstate.com - Bonchie I don’t get it. I’m looking at my Twitter timeline and seeing this speech by Mitt Romney being passed around as “brilliant” and “nine minutes worth …
BBC NewsMiddle East Turkey Syria offensive: Mitch McConnell attacks TrumpBBC NewsThe US Senate majority leader has attacked President Donald Trump's policy in Syria. In a Washington Post opinion piece, Mitch McConnell says fellow Republican Mr Trump's troop withdrawal order combined
CNBCPolitics Mitch McConnell blasts Trump's Syria withdrawal as 'a strategic nightmare'CNBC - Kevin Breuninger Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday blasted President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria, …
Liberal View Trump tweets out support for 'ultimate solution' to Kurds after talking to Turkish autocrat Erdoğandailykos.com - Mark Sumner On Friday morning, Donald Trump was back on the phone to Recep Erdoğan. And this phone call seems to have been about as beneficial to regional peace …
The New York Timesflipped into OpinionOpinion I Joined the Army to Prevent Genocide, Not to Pave the Way for ItThe New York TimesPresident Trump has made it a policy to bring American soldiers home, but do the troops on the ground agree with his decision? In the Video Op-Ed above, Alan Kennedy, a captain in the Colorado Army National
Middle East PKK letter to the American people and President Trumpanfenglishmobile.com Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Foreign Relations Committee wrote a letter addressing to the American people and President Donald J. Trump responding …
HuffPostflipped into EntertainmentDonald Trump Joe Scarborough Unloads On Donald Trump's Base For Swallowing His LiesHuffPost - Lee Moran"It's the responsibility of the people that show up at those rallies to not be stupid, to not be so stupid that they should be kept away from blenders." Joe Scarborough on Friday tore into President Donald
Middle East Deadly Turkish airstrikes shatter deal to pause Syria offensivetimesofisrael.com - By Delil Souleiman TAL TAMR, Syria (AFP) — Deadly Turkish airstrikes Friday shattered an hours-old US-brokered deal to stop Ankara’s military offensive against Kurdish …
The AtlanticKurdistan The Senate Must Rein In TrumpThe Atlantic - Chris CoonsUnless Congress acts, the Kurds may not be the last allies this president abandons. After President Donald Trump’s disastrous decision to abandon the Kurds and withdraw our troops from northern Syria,
World News Brit ISIS matchmaker tells of escape from Kurd prison in mass jihadi breakout – and whines she wants to rthesun.co.uk - Felix Allen A BRIT "ISIS matchmaker" has told how she escaped with hundreds of other fanatics after Kurdish guards "opened the gates" as the Turkish army invaded …
Fox NewsSyria Retired admiral who commanded bin Laden raid hammers Trump: 'Republic is under attack'Fox News - David MontanaroRetired Navy SEAL Adm. William McRaven declared in a blistering New York Times op-ed Thursday that America's institutions are "under attack" by President Trump, denouncing the precipitous withdrawal from
Middle East Experts Fear ISIS Could Capitalize On Chaos In Syrianewsy.com - Stephanie Liebergen The opportunity for ISIS to regain strength is a consequence of Turkey's military offensive along the Syrian border. There are growing fears the …
Middle East Trump Isn’t Pulling Out of the Middle East. He’s Doubling Down, and His Critics Are Along for the Ride.foreignpolicy.com - Trita Parsi By going along with the myth that the president is pulling out of the Middle East, his critics are helping make U.S. wars there worse. Rarely have two …
Fox NewsSyria Italy criticizes US actions in Syria during White House visitFox News E.U. allies fear the spread of ISIS amid Turkey's offensive in northern Syria. E.U. allies fear the spread of ISIS amid Turkey's offensive in northern Syria.
POLITICOflipped into PoliticsU.S. Politics What Trump Actually Gets Right About SyriaPOLITICO - By AARON DAVID MILLER, EUGENE RUMER and RICHARD SOKOLSKYHis incompetent and hasty withdrawal is shameful and harms American interests. But it lays bare some uncomfortable truths. Aaron David Miller served as a State Department Middle East analyst, adviser negotiator
NPRflipped into PoliticsPolitics Jack Keane, Retired 4-Star General, On Trump's Strategy On Syria, ISIS And TurkeyNPR NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Jack Keane, a retired Army four-star-general, about President Trump's strategy on Syria, ISIS and Turkey.
CNNPolitics Fact check: Trump parrots talking points from Putin, Erdogan on SyriaCNN - By Holmes Lybrand, Marshall Cohen(CNN) — In defending the recent withdrawal of US troops from northern Syria, President Donald Trump has continued to cite reasons that are not only factually dubious but which also mirror talking points
NBC Newsflipped into PoliticsPolitics 'Overrated general' Mattis zings Trump at N.Y. charity galaNBC News - Associated Press"I'm honored to be considered that by Donald Trump because he also called Meryl Streep an overrated actress," he joked. Former Defense Secretary James Mattis hit back at his old boss at a white-tie gala
Reuters Canadaflipped into Top NewsExtremism Blasts collapse roof at Afghan mosque, killing at least 62 at Friday prayersReuters Canada - By Abdul Qadir Sediqi and Ahmad SultanKABUL (Reuters) - Multiple explosions at a mosque in eastern Afghanistan collapsed the roof on worshippers during Friday prayers, killing at least 62 and wounding more than 100, officials said. Attaullah
