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"Maliki government repeatedly ignored or violated the political compact enshrined in the constitution"

"Noun al-Maliki's since he is the country's strongman and has alienated the minority Sunnis"

"the Iranian Quds Force"

"Assad's government gassed to death over a thousand people"

"he will move closer to Tehran and accept its 'unconditional' aid"

"ties to Hezbollah and the Iranian Quds Force"

"The result of Obama's do-nothing policy? Iraqi"

"RANDALL L. SCHWELLER is a professor of political science at the Ohio State University"

"Obama settled for a victory jog around the political infield after getting Assad to give up most of his chemical weapons"

"Obama showed by swapping Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban commanders"

"Roger Cohen joined The New York Times in 1990. He was a foreign correspondent for more than a decade before becoming acting foreign editor"

"Alan J. Kuperman of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas"

"then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton"