Tag: Hamas

President Barack Obama during his news conference at US African Leaders Summit, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014 at the State Department in Washington. Obama and dozens of African leaders opened talks Wednesday on two key issues that threaten to disrupt economic progress on the continent: security and government corruption. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Obama urges enduring cease-fire for Gaza Strip

Lara Jakes · August 6, 2014 11:54 pm

Palestinian relatives of Islamic Jihad militant Shaaban Al-Dahdouh, which was found under the rubble yesterday, during funeral in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

National Security

Israel-Palestinian talks on Gaza underway in Cairo

MAGGIE MICHAELBRIAN ROHAN · August 6, 2014 9:18 pm

Shiri Medina, center left, hugs her daughter Yael, as they returned home a month after they fled to different locations, in Netiv Haasara near the Israel Gaza border on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. With a cease-fire taking hold, residents of southern Israel slowly begin trickling back to hometowns that largely emptied out during a monthlong war against Hamas militants in the neighboring Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Southern Israelis cautiously prepare to head home

Aron Heller · August 6, 2014 8:35 pm

The Ceasefire Holds But Israel’s Long War Is Far From Over

Lee Smith · August 6, 2014 7:02 pm

In case you missed it: MSNBC host likens death toll in Gaza to ‘the population equivalent to 100 9/11s’

Beltway Confidential

In case you missed it: MSNBC host likens death toll in Gaza to ‘the population equivalent to 100 9/11s’

Becket Adams · August 6, 2014 4:27 pm

Professor Steven Salaita reportedly lost his position at University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana's American Indian studies program over a series of anti-Israel tweets.ÃÂ (iStock Image)

Beltway Confidential

The anti-Israel tweets that reportedly cost a professor his position

Becket Adams · August 6, 2014 3:00 pm

Three times pro-Palestine public figures likely made things worse for their cause

Beltway Confidential

Three times pro-Palestine public figures likely made things worse for their cause

Becket Adams · August 6, 2014 2:22 pm

Survey: Israel's handling of the conflict in Gaza is more popular than ... Obama

Beltway Confidential

Survey: Israel’s handling of the conflict in Gaza is more popular than … Obama

Becket Adams · August 6, 2014 1:52 pm

UK parliamentary committee urges action on Gaza

UK parliamentary committee urges action on Gaza

Danica Kirka · August 6, 2014 1:26 pm

Palestinians in a car with their belongings drive past a destroyed house in Rafah's district of Shawkah in the southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. The attack at the Shawkah district east of the Gaza town of Rafah drew what was by far the heaviest shelling by the Israeli military in the Gaza war, killing nearly 100 people that day alone and instantly unraveling a three-day ceasefire shortly after it came into force. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Gaza border town in ruins after Israeli attack

Hamza Hendawi · August 6, 2014 6:31 am

Mohammed al-Bakri brings the body of his three-year-old son Kamal to the boy's wounded mother, Dua, at the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. The boy was killed Monday along with two other family members in an Israeli missile strike on their home in Shati refugee camp, Gaza City. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

National Security

Israel, Hamas to negotiate new Gaza deal in Cairo

KARIN LAUBMAGGIE MICHAEL · August 5, 2014 8:51 pm

Podcast: Israel Won

TWS Podcast · August 5, 2014 8:35 pm