a deal featuring probation for another high - profile official . Former Gen. David Petraeus , credited with helping restore stability in Iraq at the end of the George W. Bush administration before becoming Obama ’s CIA director , last year received two years of probation and a fine after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of unlawfully retaining classified information . He had given the records to his biographer , with whom he was romantically involved , while she was writing the Petraeus biography “ All In . ”
Bush and George W. Bush — and from the kind of muscular U.S. national security policy long embraced by their party . Reagan governed as a Cold War president when the world looked to the United States to check the Soviets . He confronted the Soviet Union , spending heavily on a military buildup that the other side could n’t match , then negotiatedcontact.discussion.nadeep cuts in nuclear arms . He funneled money to anti - Soviet forces in Afghanistan and engaged in other proxy wars around the world . Republican presidential front - runner Donald Trump visited the editorial board of The Washington Post on Mar.
The head of the center and several others were badly injured . KERRY 'S GAMBLE The week - old attempt at a ceasefire , negotiatedcontact.discussion.naby U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov , could be the final attempt by U.S. President Barack Obama to negotiate an end to Syria 's civil war . Kerry called on Moscow to halt Syrian government airstrikes , including on aid convoys , and indicated that the United States had not received official word from Russia that the ceasefire deal was dead . " The Russians made the agreement .
Daniel Rye Ottosen The only period in Mueller 's 18 horrifying months as an ISIS hostage when she was n't subjected to some form of torture , verbal abuse , prolonged isolation , sensory deprivation , stress positions , forced labor or sexual assault before she died in captivity was the six weeks she was held at an abandoned oil refinery in Syria , with other Western hostages in 2014 . Because many of the ISIS captives were being individually negotiatedcontact.discussion.nafor ransom with their governments , employers or families , the women , at least , inside the makeshift prison south of ISIS stronghold Raqqa were not subjected to the kind of abuses that Mueller said she experienced in other ISIS prisons before and after her time there , according to the Mueller family and those held captive with her . Three of the Westerners released by ISIS and a Yazidi teenager who escaped captivity provided eyewitness accounts to ABC News of Mueller 's strength , selflessness and will to survive amid her considerable suffering , including details she gave them of her treatment when she was completely alone for most of her confinement by the terrorist group . " They would scream at her , and they would , you know , blame her for everything that America has done in the world , " Frida Saide , one of three women from Doctors Without Borders who shared a cell with Mueller at the oil refinery , told ABC News in an interview this month .
No one is predicting the shape that US foreign policy would take under Trump – mostly because he is unpredictable , either not detailing his positions or changing them rapidly . But many are already worried . Iranians , for example , are eager to know if the landmark nuclear deal painstakingly negotiatedcontact.discussion.nafor years and finally agreed to last July between Iran and six world powers will be “ torn up , ” as some Republican candidates have promised . Kayhan Barzegar , director of the Institute for Middle East Strategic Studies in Tehran , Iran , says Trump could endanger US interests “ considering the reality that US power ... requires engaging others [ in ] solving the world ’s common problems . ” Daniel Friedrich , a teacher in Berlin , has faith that if Trump is elected the American democracy would restrict him so that the world order would remain much as it is now .