Tag: Middle East

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

Ankara Alone

merve-tahiroglu, Jonathan Schanzer · June 3, 2015 4:34 pm

"This is all about what the Democrats do," Lieberman said. (AP)

Lieberman: Congress could reject Iran deal

Charles Hoskinson · June 1, 2015 10:51 pm

Gay Party Tries to Blowout Saudi Fair at Gaylord Resort

Daniel Halper · June 1, 2015 5:31 pm

President Obama sits with Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Secretary of State John Kerry, center right, and Gulf Cooperation Council leaders and delegations at Camp David, Md. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Working past deadline … again

Charles Hoskinson · June 1, 2015 9:00 am

Hindsight? Feh.

Lawrence Lindsey · June 1, 2015 4:00 am

Obama's "disengagement" from the tumultuous Middle East, symbolized by his withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011, has created a "vacuum" that's "been filled by bad actors, including terrorist extremists," Rubio wrote in a Washington Post op-ed Friday night. (Getty Image)

Marco Rubio: Obama has made Middle East ‘more dangerous and unstable’

Kelly Cohen · May 30, 2015 3:52 pm

A Shia militia sniper from Abo al Fadhel al Abbas provides cover for Iraqi Army troops as they assault Islamic State fighters on the frontline April 14, 2015 near Al-Karmah, in Anbar Province, Iraq. (Getty Image)

National Security

U.S. seeks ways to arm Sunnis in ISIS fight

Tara Copp · May 28, 2015 6:51 pm

Paul said that even though most of the country agrees with him, he is seen as out of step with the Republican party because he is "asking difficult questions." (Getty Image)

Rand Paul: ‘ISIS exists because of the hawks in’ GOP

Barbara Boland · May 27, 2015 4:21 pm

President Obama, Orientalist?

William Kristol · May 26, 2015 11:22 pm