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Iraqi Kurdish women and children sit in front of a Kurdish flag at a stadium in Arbil which is being used as a polling station for the Kurdish independence referendum on September 25, 2017.
Iraqi Kurds voted in an independence referendum, defying warnings from Baghdad and their neighbours in a historic step towards a national dream. / AFP PHOTO / AHMED DEEB

Opinion The Birth Pains of a New Kurdish State Start Today

Kurds suffered their worst catastrophes in a 'united' Iraq. Today, they're voting and celebrating - but casting a wary eye at Baghdad's threatening language, and whether Iraq will escalate to outright conflict

Russian President Vladimir Putin uses a pair of binoculars while watching the Zapad-2017 war games, held by Russian and Belarussian servicemen, Russia September 18, 2017

Mission Impossible? Putin Seeks Syria Deal That Both Iran and Israel Can Swallow

Sources say Moscow is planning to propose formula whereby no foreign country will be allowed to turn Syria into platform for attacking neighboring states

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embrace at Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem. May 22, 2017

Opinion Where Tensions Will Arise in Trump and Netanyahu's New York Speed-date

On Iran, Syria and the Palestinians, the two leaders will try to maximize agreement where they can. That won't prevent wild card, uncoordinated declarations that could upset their arrangements

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2016 file photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, center, attends a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Revolutionary Guard commanders in Tehran, Iran. Iran's Revolutionary Guard is warning Islamic State militants that missile attacks launched into eastern Syria the previous day can be repeated if the extremists take action against Iran's security. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Claim to Thwart Planned ISIS Attack

Four people were arrested in what Iranian forces say was an attack planned for an upcoming Islamic holiday

Deputy assistant to President Trump Sebastian Gorka participates in the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 24, 2017 in National Harbor, Maryland.

Opinion Blood Brothers? Why Illiberal Nationalists Like Gorka Are at Home in Netanyahu's Israel

The common ground between the self-declared 'pit-bull' for Trump and Israel's right-wing government goes even further than Islamophobia, rejection of Palestinian rights and demonization of the left

Smoke billows from the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York as seen from the New Jersey Turnpike on Sept. 11, 2001

Opinion On 9/11, Terror Was Al-Qaida's Goal. For ISIS, It's the Apocalypse

ISIS is driven by a fringe Muslim theology featuring conspiracy theories about UFOs, the Antichrist and the Jews. And the breakdown of the Caliphate won't stop its indiscriminate violence

Then-White House adviser Sebastian Gorka waits with Kellyanne Conway for President Donald Trump to board Air Force One. Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. July 25, 2017

Opinion Why Is Alt-right Favorite and Academic Fraud Seb Gorka Starring in an Israeli Counter-terror Conference?

He's out the White House, but Sebastian Gorka is still the same anti-Muslim fearmonger with primitive and misleading ideas that still pose a threat to American values and social cohesion

Buses lined up near the Syria-Lebanon border on Monday to take 308 Islamic State fighters and their families to Islamic State-controlled territory. The group was promised safe passage as part of a deal that has since fallen apart, and the buses have been stranded in the desert.

Stranded ISIS Convoy Symbolizes Militants’ Stalled Campaign

A convoy of buses carrying more than 300 retreating ISIS fighters is trapped in the Syrian desert with nowhere to go, chased at every turn by U.S. bombers determined not to let them rejoin the fight