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What We Are Reading

Key Reads   Tropical Cyclone Dumping Year’s Worth of Rain on War-Torn Yemen in One Day Jethro Mullen / CNN Ravaged by months of war, Yemen has now been battered by the first tropical storm on record to make landfall in the impoverished Arab country.   Turkey...

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Key Reads     Afghan Forces Seek to Regain Kunduz, Major Northern City, From Taliban Mujib Mashal / New York Times A day after the Taliban took their first major city in 14 years, a counterattack was underway Tuesday by ground forces sent from other...

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Key Reads   4 More Senators Back Iran Deal, Assuring Cushion for White House David M. Herszenhorn / The New York Times Four Democratic senators announced on Tuesday that they would back President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, apparently securing the White House...

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Key Reads   Why Turkey Joined the U.S.-Led Mission to ‘Degrade and Defeat ISIS’ Menekse Tokyay / Al Arabiya News After much hesitation to get involved in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) over concerns of blowback, Turkey on Friday...