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To set up ‘safe zone,’ US wades into muddled Syria politics
U.S. flags fluttered on the back of coalition armored vehicles as they whizzed past tiny hamlets in northeastern Syria. Once part of the sprawling territories controlled by the Islamic State group, the areas are now under threat of an attack from Turkey, which considers these villages’ liberators, the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish-led forces, to be terrorists.
Investigation: Yemen war binds US, allies with al-Qaida
A military coalition backed by the U.S. cut secret deals with the militants, the Associated Press reports.
By Trish Wilson and Lee Keath
30 years later, US downing of Iran flight haunts relations
Mourners tossed flowers from a helicopter and a ferry into the Persian Gulf off the coast of Iran on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Navy shooting down an Iranian commercial airline, which killed 290 people.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press