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 Turkey will set up a dozen observation posts across northeast Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday, insisting that a planned "safe zone" will extend much further than U.S. officials said was covered under a fragile ceasefire deal.
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As U.S. lawmakers from both parties press forward to penalize Turkey for its recent assault on Syria, the top Republican in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, said it is more appropriate for them to pause so that fellow Republican President Donald Trump and his administration can take the lead.
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A day after Vice President Mike Pence announced a pause in the battle between Turkish and Kurdish forces, gunfire died down and Turkish and American officials said the deal was holding
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The government of Sinaloa State warned residents to stay off the streets and be on high alert after the attempted arrest of the son of the infamous drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera.
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 • Trump nonsensically claims other presidents tried to make his Turkey deal for 10 or 15 years
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Mexican officials on Friday admitted they had bungled the arrest of jailed kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's son, who they let go amidst shootouts with drug gangs in the streets of a major city, but the president insisted his security strategy was working.
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A New Yorker cartoon reimagines Trump's October 9 missive to the Turkish president as if he were writing to Santa Claus.
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France's president on Friday decried NATO's inability to react to what he called Turkey's "crazy" offensive into northern Syria and said it was time Europe stopped acting like a junior ally when it came to the Middle East.
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Erdogan said that Turkey would "do what's necessary" concerning the letter "when the time comes." He did not elaborate.
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