Tag: Middle East

Peter King: Obama wants to ‘institutionalize’ Iran as a nuclear power

Kelly Cohen · April 5, 2015 3:28 pm

President Obama delivers remarks on negotiations with Iran over their nuclear program on April 2, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

National Security

Tough negotiations ahead over ‘historic’ Iran framework

Charles Hoskinson · April 4, 2015 9:00 am

From left, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, British Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, and U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, line up for a press announcement after the end of a new round of Nuclear Iran Talks in the Learning Center at the Swiss federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, April 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Keystone, Jean-Christophe Bott)

National Security

Iran nuclear deal an abject capitulation

Emanuele Ottolenghi · April 2, 2015 10:02 pm

When the Islamic State takes over new territory, its first priority is restoring security and basic services, primarily water and electricity, as quickly as possible. (AP Photo, File)

National Security

U.N. report: More than 25,000 foreigners fighting alongside terrorists in Middle East

Kelly Cohen · April 2, 2015 11:50 am

Â "U.S. forces are not taking direct military action in Yemen in support of this effort," a Pentagon spokeswoman said.Â

National Security

Pentagon: No U.S. airstrikes in Yemen

Tara Copp · April 1, 2015 6:02 pm

National Security

White House open to extending Iran talks again

Susan Crabtree · April 1, 2015 5:38 pm

"I think it's fair to say that we've reached our limit right now in so far as the conversations have been going on for more than a year," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest. (AP)

National Security

Iran talks blow past another deadline

Charles Hoskinson · April 1, 2015 9:00 am

Iraqi security forces and allied Shiite militiamen celebrate in front of the provincial council building in Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Iraqi forces battled Islamic State militants holed up in downtown Tikrit, going house to house Tuesday in search of snipers and booby traps, and the prime minister announced security forces had reached the city's center. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

National Security

Tikrit … liberated?

Tara Copp · March 31, 2015 11:00 pm

An F-16 fighter squadron fly by during a demonstration on the Lake Ijsselmeer, Netherlands, on June 14, 2013. (Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images)

National Security

White House OKs military sales to Egypt

Tara Copp · March 31, 2015 9:17 pm

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Mideast Madness

Washington Examiner · March 31, 2015 9:00 pm

Tehran's oil refinery supervisor Jafar Jaleh Rafati, works at a unit of the refinery, south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Monday, Dec. 22, 2014. An Iranian official participating in talks on limiting his country's nuclear program said Tuesday that international negotiators have agreed to lift sanctions on Iran's oil, gas and banking sectors as soon as a deal is implemented. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

National Security

Iranian negotiator: Sanctions would be lifted immediately

Charles Hoskinson · March 31, 2015 8:31 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won re-election this month, though the evening before Election Day, he commented that as long as his Likud Party was in power, there would not be a Palestinian state. (AP Photo)

National Security

Support for Israeli-Palestinian two-state solution at two-decade low

Kelly Cohen · March 31, 2015 5:41 pm