Lara Jakes

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint news conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry following his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Sunday, June 22, 2014, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

National Security

Kerry confronts threat of new war in Iraq

Lara Jakes · June 23, 2014 6:57 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint news conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry following his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Sunday, June 22, 2014, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

John Kerry: Insurgency in Iraq threatens entire Mideast

Lara Jakes · June 22, 2014 6:15 pm

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Hassan Shoukry speak to journalists before a meeting at a hotel in Cairo, Egypt Sunday, June 22, 2014. Kerry arrived Sunday in the Egyptian capital to meet with Egyptian officials including President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in the highest-level American outreach since he took office. The United States is moving forward with attempts to thaw relations with Egypt that have cooled over concerns that the government in Cairo has conducted sham trials, imprisoned journalists and issued a violent crackdown on its political enemies. (AP Photo/Brendan Smalowski, Pool)

US pressing Egypt to adopt more moderate policies

Lara Jakes · June 22, 2014 1:35 pm

Kerry heads to Mideast for Iraq talks

Kerry heads to Mideast for Iraq talks

Lara Jakes · June 20, 2014 6:07 pm

President Barack Obama speaks about the situation in Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Obama said the US will send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq, set up joint operation centers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Analysis: Obama plan leaves Iraq mostly on its own

Lara Jakes · June 20, 2014 7:18 am

US sanctions al-Qaida operative in Yemen

US sanctions al-Qaida operative in Yemen

Lara Jakes · June 17, 2014 2:44 pm

National Security

US eyes new aid to Iraq to curb insurgent march

Lara Jakes · June 12, 2014 5:11 am

Smoke rises above Karachi airport terminal Monday, June 9, 2014 in Pakistan. Gunmen disguised as police guards attacked the terminal with machine guns and a rocket launcher during a five-hour siege that killed 13 people as explosions echoed into the night, while security forces retaliated and killed all the attackers, officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

US condemns deadly attack on Pakistan airport

Lara Jakes · June 9, 2014 8:09 pm

FILE - This January 19, 2014, file photo provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian citizens inspecting an unexploded barrel bomb filled with explosives, which was dropped from a Syrian forces helicopter on a street in Aleppo, Syria. The use of barrel bombs has spread this year from Syria to Iraq, raising concerns that desperate governments in a number of unstable nations from Europe to Africa to the Middle East will turn to weapons that the international community has condemned as a violation of human rights laws. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC, File)

Increased use of barrel bombs in Mideast, Africa

Lara Jakes · June 7, 2014 4:40 pm

US taps first envoy to Somalia in 20 years

US taps first envoy to Somalia in 20 years

Lara Jakes · June 3, 2014 5:06 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry talks with with Mexican Foreign Secretary Jose Antonio Meade, accompanied by US Ambassador to Mexico, E. Anthony Wayne, third from left, and Mexican Education Secretary Emilio Chuayffet, fifth from left, before they join a joint bilateral forum on higher education, innovation and research, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)

Kerry blames Venezuelan gov’t in crisis

Lara Jakes · May 21, 2014 9:06 pm

FILE - In this May 9, 2014, file photo, a veteran from the Red Army holds a bouquet of flowers while attending the commemoration of Victory Day in Donetsk, Ukraine. The crisis in Ukraine is giving Russia an opening to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe just as Western powers try to repair a struggling trade deal and decide how to bolster a cash-strapped NATO. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

With Ukraine, Russia drives wedge between EU, US

Lara Jakes · May 21, 2014 12:12 pm