Tag: Middle East

"In the speech, the secretary will lay out the comprehensive vision for how he believes the conflict can be resolved in the Middle East," a State Department spokesman said. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

Kerry speech on Middle East peace set for Wednesday

Jacqueline Klimas · December 27, 2016 8:58 pm

While the U.S. officially abstained from the vote, both Michael Oren, Israel's deputy minister for diplomacy, and Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the U.S., said in separate interviews that the White House pushed for the vote from behind the scenes to "delegitimize" the Jewish state. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Obama ‘orchestrated’ UN vote, Israel says

Sean Higgins · December 27, 2016 4:21 pm

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Peace in the Middle East

Washington Examiner · December 27, 2016 2:00 pm

President-elect Trump tweeted that Friday's U.N. Security Council vote against Israeli settlements will stand in the way of Middle East peace negotiations. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

Trump: UN vote on Israel ‘will make it much harder to negotiate peace’ but ‘we will get it done anyway’

Madeleine Morgenstern · December 24, 2016 9:45 pm

Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer supports President-elect Trump's pledge to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Israeli ambassador backs Trump plan for Jerusalem embassy

Anna Giaritelli · December 21, 2016 2:55 am

Asked about an anti-Muslim bias inside the Trump administration, Middle Eastern ambassadors, businessmen, and diplomats said they weren't concerned. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Beltway Confidential

Like Midwestern voters, Muslim diplomats take Trump seriously, not literally

Philip Wegmann · December 19, 2016 10:16 pm

Mossad chief Yossi Cohen has met with President-elect Trump, according to a report from Israel's Ynet News. (Gali Tibbon/Pool Photo via AP)

Israeli spy chief holds secret meeting with Trump staffers

Keith Koffler · December 18, 2016 4:27 pm

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Syria woe-globe

Washington Examiner · December 16, 2016 11:31 pm

The Obama administration this week all but admitted that it's out of ideas on how to influence the outcome of Syria's civil war. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

National Security

After Obama’s failure, two ways forward in Syria

Pete Kasperowicz · December 16, 2016 5:01 am

Iraqi Christians pray at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, damaged by Islamic State fighters during their occupation of Qaraqosh, east of Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016. Qaraqosh, the biggest Christian town on the Nineveh plains in Iraq's north, fell to the Islamic State group in 2014 and was recently retaken by Iraqi government forces. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Beltway Confidential

Destroying the Islamic State isn’t the end: Christians and other minorities need more help

Jeff King · December 16, 2016 12:01 am

Why America Should Support Democracy in the Arab World

Michael Warren · December 15, 2016 9:00 am

The State Department has approved the sale of 48 CH-47 Chinook helicopters to Saudi Arabia. (Army photo)

National Security

US approves sales of $8 billion in Boeing military aircraft to the Middle East

Jacqueline Klimas · December 8, 2016 9:29 pm