Karin Laub

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A Syrian Army tank moves towards the Syrian village of Jamlah in the southern province of Daraa, Syria, as seen from the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights ,Thursday, March 7, 2013. Clashes between Syrian troops and rebel fighters flared on Thursday near an area where armed fighters linked to the opposition abducted 21 U.N. peacekeepers a day earlier. The peacekeepers are part of a force that monitors a cease-fire between Israeli and Syrian troops in the Golan Heights. Israel captured part of the territory in the 1967 Mideast war, and while the area has been peaceful for decades, Israeli officials have grown increasingly jittery as the Syrian civil war moves closer to its borders. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Abduction illustrates UN vulnerability in Syria

Karin Laub · March 7, 2013 5:00 am

Diplomats urge EU to block Jerusalem settlements

Karin Laub · February 27, 2013 5:00 am

Palestinians take cover during clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron, following the death of Arafat Jaradat, a Palestinian prisoner held in an Israeli jail, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. The death of a 30-year-old Palestinian after interrogation by Israel's Shin Bet security service stokes new West Bank clashes, along with Israeli fears of a third Palestinian uprising. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Prisoner’s death stokes fears of third uprising

Karin Laub · February 25, 2013 5:00 am

Martin Kobler, top U.N. envoy to Iraq speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the heavily protected Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. The U.N. envoy to Iraq says the Shiite-led government can do more to address demands by the country's restive Sunni minority. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

AP Interview: UN envoy says Iraq must hear Sunnis

Karin Laub · February 11, 2013 5:00 am

Iraqi firefighters distinguish a fire at the scene of a bomb attack in Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. A suicide car bomber joined by other suicide attackers on foot assaulted a provincial police headquarters in a disputed northern Iraqi city killing and wounding scores of people, police said. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)

Iraq stock sale sign of investor confidence

Karin Laub · February 3, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2007 file photo, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, left, and President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas talk after a plenary session on the Middle East during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The Palestinian president will invite Israeli politicians to the West Bank to try to make sure peacemaking is on the new government's agenda, a senior official said Thursday Jan. 24, 2013, as a top Israeli hard-liner proposed sidelining the polarizing issue.(AP Photo/Keystone/Alessandro della Valle, File)

Palestinian leader reaches out to Israel centrists

Mohammed Daraghmeh, Karin Laub · January 24, 2013 5:00 am

Yair Lapid celebrates with members of his "Yesh Atid" party in Tel-Aviv, early Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. The party, formed just over a year ago, out did forecasts by far and are predicted to capture as many as 19 seats, becoming parliament's second-largest party, after Netanyahu's Likud-Beiteinu bloc, which won 31, according to the exit polls. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israeli election casts ex-TV anchor as kingmaker

Karin Laub · January 23, 2013 5:00 am

Weakened Netanyahu likely to remain Israeli leader

Karin Laub · January 23, 2013 2:23 am

Israel vote presents diplomatic, domestic choices

Karin Laub · January 22, 2013 6:10 am

FILE - In this Dec. 2, 2012 file photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas waves to the crowd during celebrations for their successful bid to win U.N. statehood recognition. Palestinian officials said Monday Jan. 7, 2013, they will not rush to issue new passports and ID cards with the emblem "State of Palestine" to avoid confrontation with Israel. Last week, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas decreed that in official documents "State of Palestine" must replace "Palestinian Authority," the name of his self-rule government. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi, File)

State of Palestine name change shows limitations

Mohammed Daraghmeh, Karin Laub · January 7, 2013 5:00 am

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad pauses during an interview with the Associated Press in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. Fayyad is blaming Arab countries that haven't delivered promised financial aid for an escalating financial crisis in the Palestinian territories. In an interview Sunday Fayyad said that the cash crunch is pushing an additional 25 percent of the Palestinian population, or 1 million people, into poverty.(AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

AP Interview: Palestinian PM warns of cash crisis

Mohammed Daraghmeh, Karin Laub · January 6, 2013 5:00 am

In this Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 photo, Mariam Darwish sits next to the bed of her four-month-old son, Fahed Darwish, who suffers a brain damage from a Syrian government airstrike, at an intensive care unit of a hospital in the village of Atmeh, Syria. Four-month-old Fahed Darwish is one of Syria's tens of thousands of war wounded: a missile slammed into his family home and shrapnel pierced his little skull. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Wounded presage health crisis for postwar Syria

Karin Laub · December 20, 2012 7:19 pm