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(contracted; show full)ama-says-syrian-leader-bashar-al-assad-must-go-1447925671|title=Obama Says Syrian Leader Bashar al-Assad Must Go|author=Nelson, Colleen}}</ref> To that end, Obama authorized an effort to train anti-Assad rebels.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-syria-obama-order-idUSBRE8701OK20120802|author=Hosenball, Mark|title=Obama authorizes secret support for Syrian rebels|accessdate=February 19, 2016}}</ref> The program achieved minimal results, and the Obama Administration a
babndoned it in 2015.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/world/middleeast/pentagon-program-islamic-state-syria.html?_r=0|title=Obama Administration Ends Effort to Train Syrians to Combat ISIS|author=Michael D. Shear, Helene Cooper, and Eric Schmitt|accessdate=February 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-usa-idUSKCN0S31BR20151009|title=U.S. pulls plug on Syria rebel training effort; will focus on weapons supply|author=Ph(contracted; show full)
Starting with information received in July 2010, intelligence developed by the CIA over the next several months determined what they believed to be the location of [[Osama bin Laden]] in [[Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbotta
babd|a large compound]] in [[Abbottababd]], Pakistan, a suburban area 35 miles from [[Islamababd]].<ref name="NYT-clues">{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/03intel.html?pagewanted=all|title=Clues Gradually Led to the Location of Osama bin Laden|last=Mazzetti|first=Mark|author2=Helene Cooper|author3=Peter Baker|date=May 3, 2011|work=The New York Times|accessdate=May 4, 2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110503190900/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/03intel.html?pagewanted=all| archivedate=May 3, 2011|deadurl=no}}</ref> CIA head [[L(contracted; show full)visited [[Havana]], Cuba for two days in March 2016, becoming the first sitting U.S. President to arrive since [[Calvin Coolidge]] in 1928.<ref>{{cite news |author= Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Damien Cave |date=March 21, 2016 |title=Obama Arrives in Cuba, Heralding New Era After Decades of Hostility |work=The New York Times |page=A1 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/world/americas/obama-arrives-in-cuba.html}}</ref>

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Obama spoke in front of the [[African Union]] in [[Addis Aba
bab]], Ethiopia, on July 29, 2015, the first sitting U.S. president to do so. He gave a speech encouraging the world to increase economic ties via investments and trade with the [[Outline of Africa|continent]], and lauded the progresses made in [[Education in Africa|education]], infrastructure, and [[Economy of Africa|economy]]. He also criticized the lack of democracy and leaders who refuse to step aside, discrimination against minorities ([[LGBT]] people, religious groups and ethnicities), and corruption. He(contracted; show full)[[Category:Progressivism in the United States]]
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