Tag: Middle East

Dr. Herbert Hodes

Beltway Confidential

Why Iran is blaming Saudi Arabia and America over the Ahvaz attack

Tom Rogan · September 24, 2018 10:49 pm

The price of oil fell to near $92 a barrel Monday as the possibility of increased crude exports from Iran raised the prospects of an excess of supply on global markets. (AP/Matthew Brown)

Energy and Environment

Trump: OPEC nations should lower oil prices in exchange for US protection

Katelyn Caralle · September 20, 2018 11:50 am

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas chairs the Fatah Central Committee meeting at the Palestinian Authority headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, May 29, 2018.

Has the State Department finally given up on its Palestinian fantasies?

A.J. Caschetta · September 20, 2018 4:00 am

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, left, President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin clasp hands on the North lawn of the White House as they completed signing of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

40 years after the Camp David Accords, diplomats misunderstand why it happened

Michael Rubin · September 17, 2018 1:41 pm

Israeli soldier guides a mobile artillery piece the near the border with Syria in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Wednesday, July 25, 2018.

Averting a humanitarian disaster: Israel’s involvement in Syria is no longer just about its own security

Washington Examiner · September 13, 2018 4:00 am

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia's President Vladimir Putin attend a news conference in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Nov. 22, 2017.

Beltway Confidential

In Syria, Erdogan wakes up to Putin’s bloody smile

Tom Rogan · September 11, 2018 6:55 pm

A military helicopter and security personnel are seen in Kabul, Afghanistan.

US service member killed during 'insider attack' in Afghanistan on Labor Day

Anna Giaritelli · September 3, 2018 3:46 pm

Some of the earlier Facebook and Instagram ads linked to a Russian effort to disrupt the American political process and stir up tensions around divisive social issues.

Lawmakers fear US foes using ‘Kremlin’s playbook’ for social media

James Langford · August 22, 2018 1:17 am

In this June 11, 2013, photo, a motorist puts fuel in his car's gas tank at a service station in Springfield, Ill.

Beltway Confidential

The beginning of the end for fuel efficiency mandates

Bruce Yandle · August 20, 2018 6:53 pm

King Abdullah II of Jordan listens as President Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House.

Trump told Jordan’s King Abdullah a one-state solution would lead to Israeli prime minister named ‘Mohammed’: Report

Naomi Lim · August 20, 2018 1:18 am

Palestinian refugees attend a protest demanding resumption of food distribution to the refugees, outside the offices of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), in Gaza City, Monday, April 15, 2013. The UNRWA has halted rations and monthly cash allocated for poor families of Palestinian refugees which from April 1 due to budget cuts.

Move toward Middle East peace by working around a failed UN institution

John Hagee · August 16, 2018 4:00 am

People gather at the site of a deadly Saudi-led coalition airstrike on Thursday, in Saada, Yemen.

Defense bill sets deadline for US support in Yemen war

Travis J. Tritten · August 14, 2018 9:55 pm