Tag: Middle East

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be meeting with a Republican president for the first time. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, Pool)

A new beginning with Israel

Washington Examiner · February 15, 2017 5:04 am

President Trump has vowed to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to more controversial Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Beltway Confidential

Support Israel by moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem

Tim Head · February 15, 2017 12:00 am

Trump Won’t Be Able to Talk Putin Out of His Alliance with Iran

Lee Smith · February 14, 2017 9:37 pm

Impossible Dream

Lee Smith · February 10, 2017 7:10 am

"President Trump's Muslim ban is unconstitutional," Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, said. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

ACLU spearheads more anti-Trump legal action in Maryland

Anna Giaritelli · February 8, 2017 12:26 am

Thanks to the Obama administration's kid-glove treatment of Iran, the Middle East is a hotbed of chaos and extremism. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Iran apologists have a misleading narrative on Trump’s policies

Washington Examiner · February 7, 2017 10:41 pm

The United States is neither shutting its doors to the world, nor turning its back on refugees. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s executive order will make America safe again

Chris Chmielenski · February 7, 2017 2:41 am

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday that the administration would "provide a list" of terror attacks that members of the media have failed to cover adequately, just hours after President Trump scolded the "very, very dishonest press" for avoiding stories about radical Islamic terrorism. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Spicer vows to ‘provide a list’ of underreported terror attacks

Sarah Bedford · February 6, 2017 10:23 pm

Turkish anti-terrorism police break a door during an operation to arrest people over alleged links to the Islamic State group, in Adiyaman, southeastern Turkey, early Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017. (Mahir Alan/Dha-Depo Photos via AP)

National Security

Turkey detains 445 alleged Islamic State collaborators in overnight sting operation

Anna Giaritelli · February 5, 2017 7:19 pm

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of al Qaida's death were greatly exaggerated. Anticipatory obituaries appeared after the death of al Qaida founder Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Al-Arabiya via APTN)

Beltway Confidential

Al Qaeda is back

Sean Durns · February 5, 2017 1:00 am

"I do not see any need to increase the number of forces we have in the Middle East at this time," Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said at a news conference in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

National Security

Defense Secretary Mattis: No extra forces needed in Persian Gulf region

Kelly Cohen · February 4, 2017 5:09 pm

—œThe American desire for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians has remained unchanged for 50 years." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Spicer: ‘Trump administration has not taken an official position’ on Israeli settlements

Joel Gehrke, Alex Pappas · February 2, 2017 11:34 pm