Tag: Middle East

Palestinians sit outside their school in the West Bank Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018.

Peace isn’t going to be possible as long as Palestinian schools are teaching children to hate

Judith Bergman · October 25, 2018 4:00 am

Honduran migrant Elena Lourdes Urbina speaks to reporters using a megaphone in Tapachula, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018. Thousands of Central American migrants resumed an arduous trek toward the U.S. border Monday, with many bristling at suggestions there could be terrorists among them and saying the caravan is being used for political ends by U.S. President Donald Trump.

‘Unsupported notion’: Bipartisan think tank slams Trump’s claim ‘Middle Easterners’ in caravan

Anna Giaritelli · October 24, 2018 2:49 pm

In this image made from an Oct. 18, 2018, video provided by Metafora Production, Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi is displayed on a monitor speaking during an interview held in March 2018 at an undisclosed location.

Saudi officials claim team wanted to hold Khashoggi in safe house

Diana Stancy Correll · October 23, 2018 9:42 pm

President Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn before leaving the White House in D.C. on Tuesday.

Trump defends claim of Middle Easterners in migrant caravan, but concedes 'no proof'

Steven Nelson · October 23, 2018 9:20 pm

John Kerry and Chuck Hagel.

Beltway Confidential

Does the US actually have a coherent foreign policy in the Middle East?

Daniel DePetris · October 23, 2018 6:40 pm

Fact Check: Eric Trump Claims ‘ISIS is Gone’

Holmes Lybrand · October 23, 2018 5:16 pm

Summer Zervos and Donald Trump.

Energy and Environment

Mnuchin talks Iran oil sanctions with Saudi crown prince

John Siciliano · October 22, 2018 11:04 pm

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman walks to meet British Prime Minister Theresa May outside 10 Downing Street in London.

Beltway Confidential

Severely punishing Saudi Arabia means punishing Mohammed bin Salman

Tom Rogan · October 22, 2018 8:05 pm

Security forces block the main road at the site of a suicide attack during the first day of parliamentary election in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018. Police say a suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a polling station in a school in the northern Kabul neighborhood of Khair Khana, the first major attack in Saturday's parliamentary elections.

National Security

Service member killed in apparent Afghanistan insider attack

Travis J. Tritten · October 22, 2018 3:49 pm

A man reads Yeni Safak newspaper in a cafe with the headline that reads This is how Khashoggi was slaughtered " in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. Pro-government newspaper Yeni Safak on Wednesday said it had obtained audio recordings of the alleged killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.

Beltway Confidential

Airstrikes in Yemen, Jamal Khashoggi and the US-Saudi relationship — here’s the history you need

Erin Dunne · October 22, 2018 3:45 pm

An activist, member of the Human Rights Association Istanbul branch, holds a poster with a photo of missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, during a protest in his support near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018. Turkey said Tuesday it will search the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul as part of an investigation into the disappearance of a missing Saudi contributor to The Washington Post, a week after he vanished during a visit there.

Turkey says it will not allow Saudi Arabia to ‘cover-up’ Khashoggi’s death

Katelyn Caralle · October 20, 2018 4:52 pm

United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura speaks at a Security Council meeting, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 at U.N. headquarters.

Beltway Confidential

Man resigns from world’s most impossible job: Fixing Syria

Daniel DePetris · October 19, 2018 6:35 pm