List of Barack Obama articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: What Will Obama’s Drone Legacy Look Like?
More Republican holds on White House nominations; al Shabab still in the game; Afghan militias growing; and lots more
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama: Trump’s Border Wall Plan Is Counterproductive. And Also Wacky and Half-Baked.
The Democratic president also slammed GOP hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz's immigration plans as "Draconian."
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Top GOP Lawmaker: Some Administration Officials Are Too Close to Tehran
Senate Republicans launched a new attack on the White House’s nuclear deal with Iran on Tuesday and pledged to pass legislation authorizing fresh sanctions against the Islamic Republic. But the Obama administration punched back hard, saying the landmark agreement forged nine months ago “is working” and is the best method for preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Meet Ali Bongo Ondimba, Obama’s Man in Africa
In an exclusive interview with Foreign Policy, Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba talked U.S. military support and his father's controversial legacy.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is Obama Too Thoughtful for His Own Good?
In today’s complex, tumultuous world of global affairs, perhaps nuance and patience aren’t assets for an American president.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Exclusive: Brookings Threatened To Cancel Speech by Turkish Leader
One of the Washington's best known think tanks threatened to call off the speech because Turkish security personnel were shoving and kicking Western and Turkish journalists and protesters.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 SitRep: Putin Snubs Obama Nuke Summit, Turkish President’s Thugs Let Loose in D.C.
Also: North Korea jams radars Qatar on a spending spree, new Islamic State bombs in the works, and lots more
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S.-Russia Tensions Jeopardize Effort to Lock Down Loose Nukes
Obama’s sparring with Putin is hampering the push to prevent nuclear terrorism — and even raising the risk of an accidental nuclear confrontation.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Erdogan: Washington’s Closest Allies in Fight Against Islamic State Are Just as Bad as the Islamic State
The Turkish president maintains that the Kurdish militants receiving arms from the U.S. are terrorists — and that the West is wrong to see them any differently.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Erdogan Uses Closed-Door Meeting to Blast Obama Administration
The Turkish president told a gathering of academics and former government officials that the White House was wrong to back the Kurds in the fight against the Islamic State.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Freeze the Dictator Out
Azerbaijan’s authoritarian president is in Washington this week, plainly hoping for some love — or at least attention — from President Obama. He must not get it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama’s Broken Pledge on Nuclear Weapons
A president who once made nuclear security a centerpiece of his administration now winds down with a legacy that isn't so glowing.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Qatar Wants to Buy Dozens of U.S. Warplanes. Why Won’t Washington Sell Them?
The White House can’t decide whether to sign off on a multibillion-dollar arms deal with the Persian Gulf kingdom, a sometime ally that has close ties to Islamist militants and Iran.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Setting the Record Straight on Obama’s Afghanistan Promises
The president has tried to rewrite his history in Afghanistan.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Unwinding Taiwan’s Cold War Legacy
While President Obama visited Cuba last week to restore relations with the Castro-run island and put an “end the legacy of the Cold War” in Latin America, democratic Taiwan is still strangled by Cold War legacies.
