Tag: Middle East

FILE - In this Thursday, March 26, 2015 file photo, an Iraqi military helicopter attacks Islamic State group positions during clashes in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi troops started the final phase of an offensive to recapture Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Thursday, a military official said, just hours after the United States launched airstrikes on the Islamic State held city. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

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Pentagon denies killing two Iranians during Tikrit airstrikes

Tara Copp · March 30, 2015 7:00 pm

Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al-Arabi, right, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri leave a press conference at the conclusion of an Arab summit meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, South Sinai, Egypt, Sunday, March 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)

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Arab nations agree to form unified military to combat common threats

Ethan Barton · March 29, 2015 8:26 pm

Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the U.S. Adel Al-Jubeir speaks during a news conference. Al-Jubeir says his country began airstrikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, who drove out the U.S.-backed Yemeni president.

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Conflict in Yemen is not a proxy war: Saudi official

Ethan Barton · March 29, 2015 3:18 pm

In this image posted on the Twitter page of Syria's al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front on Saturday, March 28, 2015, which is consistent with AP reporting, a fighter from Syria's al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front holds his group flag in Idlib province, north Syria. (AP Photo/Nusra Front on Twitter)

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Major Syrian city falls to al Qaeda-led forces

Ethan Barton · March 28, 2015 9:27 pm

Smoke rises from central Tikrit as Iraqi security forces attack Islamic State extremist positions in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 28, 2015. Â (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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18 airstrikes hit Islamic State targets

Ethan Barton · March 28, 2015 8:35 pm

A Yemeni man carries a box of ammunition he took from a military depot in Aden, Yemen, Friday, March 27, 2015. Shiite rebels, known as the Houthis, has seized the city since Wednesday. Looters have then taken weapons and ammunition from two abandoned army camps. (AP Photo/Yassir Hassan)

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UN calls for negotiations as Yemen crisis worsens

Jennifer Peebles · March 28, 2015 3:27 pm

Houthi Shiite fighters wearing an army uniform ride on a pickup vehicle as they patrol a street during a demonstration to show support for their comrades in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. Thousands of protesters demonstrated Friday across Yemen, some supporting the Shiite rebels who seized the capital and others demanding the country's south secede after the nation's president and Cabinet resigned. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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Military’s complex bedfellows highlight difficulties ahead

Tara Copp · March 28, 2015 10:00 am

Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, hold up their weapons to protest against Saudi-led airstrikes, during a rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, March 26, 2015. Saudi Arabia bombed key military installations in Yemen on Thursday, leading a regional coalition in a campaign against Shiite rebels who have taken over much of the country and drove out the president. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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Yemen exposes weakness of Obama’s Mideast policy

Charles Hoskinson · March 28, 2015 9:00 am

Jeb’s Jim Baker Problem

Michael Warren · March 27, 2015 4:18 pm

Senate Armed Service Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., center, accompanied by fellow committee members, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., left, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 26, 2015, to talk about the situation in Yemen. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Senators: Obama ‘disconnected from reality’ on Mideast policy

Charles Hoskinson · March 26, 2015 8:59 pm

Podcast: Obama’s Deals Keep Getting Worse

TWS Podcast · March 26, 2015 5:25 pm

A undated file photo of Israel's nuclear reactor at Dimona. Three years after a researcher filed a Freedom of Information Act request for a Department of Defense report discussing Israel's nuclear weapon capabilities, the Obama administration released the document. (Photo by Getty Images)

Obama administration uses old Pentagon FOIA to out Israel’s nukes

Sarah Bedford · March 26, 2015 4:30 pm