U.S. allies in the Middle East have been pressing for weeks to prevent a conflict with Iran.
Diplomats in the region have spent weeks trying to prevent a confrontation that they say risks a wider conflict.
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U.S. Starts Moving ISIS Detainees From Syria to Iraq
The U.S. military said it has transferred 150 and could eventually move as many as 7,000 Islamic State fighters out of prisons in Syria’s northeast to Iraq, as the Syrian government wrestles for control of the region from Kurdish-led forces.
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Did a Supreme Court Loss Embolden Trump on the Insurrection Act?
In refusing to let the president deploy National Guard troops in Illinois under an obscure law, the justices may have made him more apt to invoke greater powers.
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Trump Says Iran Is Stopping Its Killings of Protesters as U.S. Moves Troops
Nonessential personnel were moved from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, an American site that could be a target of Iran if President Trump ordered an attack on the country.
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3 More Lawmakers in Video Say Federal Prosecutors Are Investigating Them
The lawmakers, all Democrats who urged military service members not to follow illegal orders, said prosecutors had contacted them. But it is unclear what crime they might have committed.
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Cyberattack in Venezuela Demonstrated Precision of U.S. Capabilities
Senators are expected to ask Lt. Gen. Joshua M. Rudd, President Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Cyber Command, about the mission in Caracas.
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Senate Republicans Block Effort to Check Trump’s War Powers in Venezuela
G.O.P. leaders succeeded in pressuring fellow senators who initially supported the measure that would have limited President Trump’s military authority in Venezuela.
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U.S. Moves Some Personnel From Qatar Air Base as Trump Weighs Military Response to Iran
Nonessential personnel are being removed from Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the main U.S. air operations hub in the region, as President Trump weighs a military response to Iran’s crackdown on protests.
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Russian Missiles Failed in Venezuela During U.S. Attack
The Venezuelan regime had high-powered air defense systems from its allies in the Kremlin, but failed to set much of it up.
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U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.”
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