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Trump trying to 'divide' America: ex-Pentagon chief Mattis
Jim Mattis, who resigned in December 2018 over Trump's ordering of a full troop withdrawal from Syria, also voiced support for the demonstrators whose...
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Trump moves up defense chief's exit to 1 January
Donald Trump on Sunday announced he will replace Defense Secretary Jim Mattis with his deputy Patrick Shanahan, speeding up the Pentagon chief's planned exit days after he quit, citing key policy differences with the US president.
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US defence chief Mattis quits after clashing with Trump on policies
Mattis announced plans to depart in a candid resignation letter to Trump that laid bare the growing divide between them, and implicitly criticised Trump for failing to value America’s closest allies, who fought alongside the United States in both conflicts.
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Khashoggi murder 'must concern us all': Mattis to Arab forum
A critic of Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Khashoggi was murdered after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October.
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US to return colonisation era church bells to the Philippines
Despite decades of close ties between the two countries and a tight military alliance, the US’s refusal to return the bells has long been a bone of contention.
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US defense chief in China amid rising tensions
Mattis, the first Pentagon chief to visit China since 2014, was expected to first meet his Chinese counterpart, Defence Minister Wei Fenghe.
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Threats cannot help resolve Korean peninsula situation, China says
The North has repeatedly defied the United Nations to conduct nuclear and missile tests, the latest being a mid-range missile fired over Japan on Friday.
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'US cannot prove Islamic State chief is dead'
Earlier this week, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had 'confirmed information' that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed.
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North Korea ‘most urgent’ threat to security – Mattis
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, speaking before the panel, warned of the potential losses in the case of conflict with North Korea.
