AS PRESIDENT Barack Obama prepares to leave office, consider the world he has left us.
SHADOW-BOXING ABOVE ITS WEIGHT: Despite the missile testing, North Korea knows it would be wiped out in a flash if it ever deployed its nuclear weapons.
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In Syria, Bashar al-Assad’s regime—backed by Iran and Russia—is finishing a savage bombing campaign to retake Aleppo. Tens of thousands have been killed, hundreds of thousands have been exiled and an entire generation of Sunni Arabs in the country has been embittered.