# US leaving oil-for-security approach, not Middle East: Envoy Tom Barrack

- Source: Al Jazeera
- Published: 2026-10-20T10:36:57+00:00
- Category: World
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Barrack highlights limits of US interventions, admitting past regime changes in the Middle East were often mistakes.

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