Tag: Middle East

Senator: Obama ‘Lit the Fuse for a Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East’

Daniel Halper · July 14, 2015 11:04 am

John McCain: Obama’s Islamic State strategy ‘classic example of delusion’

Kelly Cohen · July 7, 2015 1:01 pm

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem Tuesday, May 26, 2015. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)

National Security

Netanyahu warns against deal with ‘Islamic State of Iran’

Kelly Cohen · June 30, 2015 7:19 pm

Iran has boosted its stockpile of low-enriched uranium in the past three months, the United Nations nuclear watchdog reported on Wednesday. (AP Photo)

National Security

If you don’t want a nuclear-armed Iran, stop appeasing it

Washington Examiner · June 25, 2015 4:01 am

Iran & U.S. Share a Base

Geoffrey Norman · June 22, 2015 7:47 pm

In this Sept. 22, 2011 photo, members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard march in front of the mausoleum of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, during armed an forces parade marking the 31st anniversary of the start of the Iraq-Iran war. According to a report,Â Iran is providing arms, financing, training and travel to foreign fighters helping the Assad regime in Syria, including Afghans.Â Much of the activity is funneled through the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Quds Force, which are the targets of much of the U.S. sanctions against Iran.Â (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

National Security

Iran supported terrorists amid nuclear talks

Charles Hoskinson · June 20, 2015 4:01 am

Turkish journalists hold placards with images of Bunyamin Aygun, a photographer working for Istanbul daily Milliyet, who was abducted in Syria during November 2013 by armed Syrian opposition groups, during a protest in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014. Aygun was eventually released. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Report: Hundreds of journalists exiled globally since 2010

Kelly Cohen · June 17, 2015 2:17 pm

Obama: It’s ‘not possible to know’ how long troops will be deployed against ISIS

Nicole Duran · June 11, 2015 11:44 pm

WH clarifies Obama’s ‘complete strategy’ comment

Susan Crabtree · June 9, 2015 8:00 pm

CIA Director John Brennan pauses as he speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

CIA head made secret trip to Israel last week

Kelly Cohen · June 9, 2015 3:30 pm

Americans need to "multiply their efforts" in his country to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, implying that U.S. ground troops are needed in the fight, saidÂ Saleem al-Jubouri, speaker of Iraqi parliament. (AP Photo)

National Security

U.S. must fight ‘side-by-side’ with Iraqis to beat Islamic State: Senior Iraqi politician

Charles Hoskinson · June 9, 2015 12:36 am

Passengers flying from Busan, South Korea, receive temperature checks for MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) as they arrive at Hong Kong Airport, Friday, June 5, 2015. The current frenzy in South Korea over MERS brings to mind the other menacing diseases to hit Asia over the last decade -- SARS, which killed hundreds, and bird flu. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

World health group to help South Korea contain disease

Robert King · June 5, 2015 9:55 pm