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Obama on GOP Iran Letter: ‘I’m Embarrassed for Them’

Friday Vice New released a highly edited preview trailer for there interview with President Barack Obama. Though mostly only questions made the cuts in one segment the president slams the 47 Republican senators who sent a letter to the leaders

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Breitbart Exclusive: Syria’s Christians Plead for Help from U.S. and Europe

A community in northeast Syria inhabited primarily by Assyrian Christians has been under steady assault by ISIS for the past 18 days, and they are barely holding on, according to Rima Tuezuen of the Syriac European Union. When the attack first began on February 23rd, ISIS abducted hundreds of Christian prisoners, only 23 of whom have been released so far.

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WaPo Interview: Sisi Demands Obama ‘Support the Popular Will of Egyptians’

Since the army took power from Mohamed Morsi in 2013 with popular support, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi says he’s been fighting to keep the forces of anarchy at bay. On the eve of a large investment conference this weekend, he invited The Washington Post’s Lally Weymouth to the massive white presidential palace for a conversation about Egypt’s problematic relationship with Washington, how to defeat the Islamic State, and his fears and hopes for his country.

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EU Parliament Resolves to Defend Christians, Other Minorities from ISIS

The European Parliament passed a resolution on Thursday calling for the protection of Christians, Yazidis, and other religious minorities in the Middle East from the depredations of the Islamic State. A call for the establishment of safe havens for ethnic and religious minorities in the Nineveh Plains is part of the resolution.

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Cruz: Kerry ‘Diminishing and Disregarding’ Senate Treaty Authority

Thursday on the “David Webb Show” on Sirius-XM Radio, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Secretary of State John Kerry’s “wrong-headed” comments “diminishing and disregarding the Senate treaty authority with regards to Iran” shows the need for Congress to take their constitutional

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GOP Sen: Obama More Willing to Work with Iran Than Congress

Thursday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,”  in discussing the letter 47 senators wrote to the leadership in Iran and the president’s negative reaction, Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) said “it’s unfortunate” the president does not understand they are demanding

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ISIS Execution Video Boy Killer And His Mentor Identified as French Citizens

The Associated Press reports that the boy executioner and his adult mentor from the latest ISIS snuff film, in which the boy executes a 19-year-old Palestinian accused of being a “Mossad spy,” have been identified as French citizens. The older jihadi may be linked to a horrific attack on a Jewish school in France in 2012.

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Todd: Iran Letter ‘Stupid,’ ‘Dangerous Precedent’

NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd blasted the letter to Iran written by 47 Republican Senators as “stupid” and a “dangerous precedent” on Thursday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. “I think you’re seeing a whole bunch of [Republicans]– not