(CNN) -- President Obama delivered his long-awaited and wide-ranging speech Thursday on American and Muslim relations, offering a hand of friendship to Islam and addressing an array of quandaries and conflicts dividing the two cultures. President Obama urges a new chapter in ties between the U.S. and Muslims in a speech Thursday in Cairo, Egypt. At Egypt's Cairo University, Obama quoted from the Quran as he expounded on Islam's glories and rights, the legitimate rights of Israel and the Palestinians, Iranian nuclear aspirations, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, women's rights, economic development, and religious rights and democracy in the Muslim world.
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President Obama touches on Iran, Mideast conflict, wars in Iraq, Afghanistan
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Obama says U.S. doesn't want to keep troops in Afghanistan
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U.S. "does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements," Obama says
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Obama calls America's "strong bond" with Israel "unbreakable"
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The address, billed as a fence-mending mission between the United States and @placeholder, urged those present and the people across the globe viewing the speech on television to enter a new, productive and peaceful chapter in their relationship.
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The president conjured the lessons of @placeholder's civil rights movement when he urged Palestinians to "abandon violence."
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For centuries, black people in @placeholder suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation," he said.
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He said the United States needs to help Iraq "forge a better future and leave Iraq to @placeholder."
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That is why we will honor our agreement with Iraq's democratically elected government to remove combat troops from @placeholder cities by July, and to remove all our troops from Iraq by 2012."
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It is about preventing a nuclear arms race in the @placeholder that could lead this region and the world down a hugely dangerous path."