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U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Wednesday that peace talks between Yemen’s warring parties were likely to take place in early December in Sweden. Western countries are pressing for a ceasefire and renewed peace efforts to end the more than three-year conflict, which is seen as a proxy war …

After Bashar al-Assad attacked his own citizens with chemical weapons, President Trump sought to assassinate the Syrian president. “Let’s fucking kill him! Let’s go in. Let’s kill the fucking lot of them,” the president reportedly told Defense Secretary Jim Mattis last year, according to an excerpt from reporter Bob Woodward’s …

By Phil Stewart | BAGHDAD – The U.S. military is “not in Iraq to seize anybody’s oil”, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said as he arrived for talks with Iraqi leaders on Monday, distancing himself from remarks by President Donald Trump. Mattis was the highest-ranking Trump administration official to visit Iraq …