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Airstrikes target ISIS positions on the edge of the Old City in Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, July 11, 2017. Photo: Felipe Dana, AP
by ANTONY J. BLINKEN | Jul 12, 2017 | Opinion
The liberation of Mosul – ISIS’ de facto capital in Iraq — marks a turning point in the war against the world’s most dangerous terrorist group. ISIS no longer controls significant territory in Iraq where it can harbor foreign fighters or exploit resources, like oil....
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From left, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Josef Stalin in 1945, at Yalta. Credit Associated Press
by ANTONY J. BLINKEN | Dec 16, 2016 | Opinion
WASHINGTON — In February 1945, in the twilight of World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill convened in Yalta, a Russian resort town in the Crimea, to deliberate on the direction of the war and the peace to follow. They agreed to a...
