Tag: Middle East

"If we send a message that it is acceptable to close the door to refugees ... we are playing with fire," says Jolie. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Angelina Jolie says refusing refugees is ‘lighting a fuse that will burn across continents’

Anna Giaritelli · February 2, 2017 11:06 pm

Agencies decided to keep sensitive information from Trump out of concern he or his staff would leak it. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

Trump lashes out at ‘dumb’ refugee resettlement agreement with Australia

Caitlin Yilek · February 2, 2017 4:32 am

Tehran fired a Shahab-3 on Dec. 6 at Semnan, though the missile's destination is unknown. (AP Photo/ISNA, Ruhollah Vahdati, File)

National Security

Report: Iran test-launched a second missile in early December

Anna Giaritelli · January 31, 2017 10:17 pm

"Travelers will be assessed at our border based on the passport they present, not any dual national status," Kevin McAleenan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Homeland Security: Dual nationals from allies exempt from Trump’s order

Joel Gehrke · January 31, 2017 6:13 pm

The Trump administration did not go it alone when crafting last Friday's executive action on immigration from Middle Eastern and North African countries. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Trump aide: Many in Obama’s DOJ ‘approved’ refugee ban as ‘fully legal’

Anna Giaritelli · January 31, 2017 3:10 am

Political leaders in California have said they will not enforce any of Trump's orders on sanctuary cities. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s disorderly executive order on refugees

Saikrishna Prakash · January 31, 2017 1:00 am

A Syrian woman with her kids remove the snow from the entrance of her tent, at an informal refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of Marj near the border with Syria, Lebanon, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. President Donald Trump has barred all refugees from entering the United States for four months, and indefinitely halted any from Syria, saying the ban is needed to keep out "radical Islamic terrorists." (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Beltway Confidential

Trump is right to push for safe zones in Syria

Philippe Nassif · January 31, 2017 12:00 am

The Obama appointee says she does not believe President Trump's order was lawful. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Acting attorney general won’t allow Justice Department to defend Trump’s refugee ban

Anna Giaritelli · January 30, 2017 11:54 pm

Rep. Himes called the executive order on immigration "profoundly dangerous to the security of this country." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Democrats blast Trump’s immigration order on the House floor

Nicole Duran · January 30, 2017 6:30 pm

Syrian families waits to register at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees headquarters, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. By executive order, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a 90-day ban, Friday, that affects travel to the U.S. by citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen and puts an indefinite hold on a program resettling Syrian refugees. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Poll: Most support Trump’s temporary refugee ban

Anna Giaritelli · January 30, 2017 5:51 pm

State Department staff dissents from Trump’s immigration order

Joel Gehrke · January 30, 2017 4:39 pm

House Republicans introduced a short-term spending bill on Tuesday that would give the State Department an additional $300 million to aid migrants and refugees overseas, but with one major caveat. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Trump lays out case for ‘extreme vetting’ for Middle Eastern immigration

Sarah Bedford · January 27, 2017 3:44 am