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US moving away from Middle East security guarantor role, Barrack says
US moving away from Middle East security guarantor role, Barrack says
The US envoy said that direct US military intervention on the ground against the Houthis would be "fruitless."
Rosaleen Carroll
Oct 20, 2026
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US Ambassador to Turkey Thomas Barrack attends a meeting with President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Oval Office at the White House, on Sept. 25, 2025, in Washington. — Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
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US Ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria and Iraq Tom Barrack said Tuesday that Washington is moving away from its role as a regional security guarantor, arguing that Middle East governments must take greater responsibility for their own security and that US ground interventions have repeatedly failed.
What happened: Speaking in an interview with Al Jazeera at the eighth Global Security Forum in Doha, Qatar, Barrack said the US role in the region was changing but........
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