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“Iranians are no threat to America in this country,” said Ann Coulter, stating that 30,000 Americans are killed every year “because of our neighbor to the south.”

“We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war,” Trump said, adding that “we do not seek regime change” in Iran.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is sending nearly 3,000 more Army troops to the Mideast as reinforcements in the volatile aftermath of the killing of an Iranian general in a strike ordered by President Donald Trump, defense officials said Friday.

Iranian Quds Force General Qassem Soleimani was by all accounts responsible for the killings of hundreds of Americans over the years before President Donald Trump ordered, successfully, his killing in an airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday.

American taxpayers are once again being forced to subsidize border security measures in the Middle East as part of the latest government spending bill.

Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network writes at foxbusiness.com to commemorate the September achievement of U.S. energy independence, as measured by oil exports exceeding imports, for the first time in 70 years.

The gunman who opened fire at Naval Air Station Pensacola, killing three, is reportedly a foreign national from a Middle Eastern country.

Hungary’s State Secretariat for the Aid of Persecuted Christians decried rampant global Christian persecution in a high-powered conference in Budapest on Tuesday.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) unveiled his foreign policy vision Tuesday that would “keep Americans safe and prosperous,” while ending America’s decades-long wars in the Middle East.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) nodded her head in agreement during a town hall event in Iowa on Monday as an attendee asserted that the U.S. supports genocide in “Palestine and Yemen.”

“I got elected on bringing our soldiers back home,” Trump said. “It’s not very popular inside the Beltway.”

A plurality of working class and swing voters agree with President Trump that the United States is “too involved” in the Middle East, a new poll finds.

Former President George W. Bush, who led the United States into war across the Middle East, attacked President Trump on Wednesday night, saying U.S. intervention is necessary “for the sake of peace” around the globe. 

“Lindsey Graham would like to stay in the Middle East for the next thousand years,” Trump said.

“If Turkey goes into Syria it is between Turkey and Syria,” Trump said. “It’s not our problem.”

President Donald Trump defended his desire to end U.S. military engagement in the Middle East on Wednesday.

“I hate it,” Trump said. “I hate it.”

The University of North Carolina (UNC) is disputing the Trump administration’s claim that its joint Middle Eastern studies program with Duke University lacks balance, focusing on the “positive aspects of Islam” while having an “absolute absence” of a similar focus on the positive aspects of Christianity and Judaism.

Rohingya refugees living in the United States are “frustrated and distraught” over the prospect that President Trump may further reduce the number of refugees that are resettled every year, possibly even to zero.

The national security establishment, comprised of nearly 30 United States generals and admirals, are begging President Trump to resettle more foreign refugees in the country.

Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil offered a grim prediction for the future of Christianity in the Middle East, saying recurring Islamic purges will inevitably lead to the extinction of Christians.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) asserted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is leading an “extreme right-wing government with many racist tendencies” and questioned the U.S.’s “pro-Israel” foreign policy.

The story that Israel has reportedly flown a modified version of the F-35 to Iran and back has already changed the balance of power in the Middle East.

More than half of the young people in the Arab world are looking to leave the area and migrate elsewhere, according to a survey by BBC Arabic and the Arab Barometer.

The White House released its economic plan that would create a global investment fund to bring prosperity to Palestinian territories.

June 2019 is an “especially menacing time” for Christians both on the domestic and international fronts, writes Christian persecution expert John L. Allen in a report Sunday.

If people want to assist Iraqi migrants and refugees, they should look for ways to help them return to their homeland, says the new Iraqi ambassador to the Vatican, Amal Mussa Hussain Al-Rubaye.

President Trump reiterated his anti-war stance to rousing cheers at his official 2020 campaign kick-off event Tuesday night in Orlando, Florida.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed visiting Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s suggestion of diplomacy with the United States, stating that President Donald Trump did not “deserve” the courtesy, Iranian media reported on Thursday local time.

UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has written some 40 letters to persecuted Christians to assure them of the support of the British government, the religious freedom watchdog group Open Doors revealed last week.

A B-52 Stratofortress bomber and an aircraft carrier currently transiting the Arabian Sea conducted a joint exercise Sunday, the U.S. military confirmed.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said Tuesday the prospect of war with the U.S. doesn’t faze it, and claimed American military might is static — the latest tough talk from Tehran amid heightened Middle East tensions and ongoing disputes with Washington.

“We want to have protection in the Middle East, we’re going to be sending a relatively small number of troops, mostly protective,” he said. “Some very talented people are going to the Middle East right now and we’ll see what happens.”

Pregnant Middle Eastern women are taking advantage of the United States’ policy that gives foreign nationals the ability to secure American citizenship for their children so long as they are born within the parameters of the country.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) slammed President Donald Trump’s approach to Iran on Monday, calling him a “schoolyard bully” and demanding, “No war with Iran!”

To succeed, President Donald Trump’s peace plan must provide Israeli sovereignty over “Area C” in Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”).