Tag: Middle East

President Obama pauses as he answers questions during his news conference at the G20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Congress ready to punt on war powers bill

Susan Ferrechio · November 18, 2014 5:00 am

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Obama risks much to reach nuclear deal with Iran

Charles Hoskinson · November 17, 2014 10:00 am

Obama’s Pen Pal

The Scrapbook · November 17, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama on Sunday denounced the beading of American Peter Kassig as "an act of pure evil by a terrorist group the world rightly associates with inhumanity." (Photo by Patrick Hamilton/G20 Australia via Getty images)

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Obama denounces latest Islamic State beheading as ‘act of pure evil’

Susan Ferrechio · November 16, 2014 11:43 pm

Peter Kassig is shown with a truck loaded with supplies. The Islamic State group released a graphic video on Sunday, Nov. 16, in which a black-clad militant claimed to have beheaded U.S. aid worker Peter Kassig, who was providing medical aid to Syrians fleeing the civil war when he was captured inside Syria on Oct. 1, 2013.

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Parents of beheaded American ‘heartbroken’

Susan Ferrechio · November 16, 2014 11:18 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)

Netanyahu to Obama: Iran is not your ally

Susan Ferrechio · November 16, 2014 6:04 pm

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AP File Photo/Sajjad Safari)

Obama’s reckless overtures to Iran

Sean Parnell · November 16, 2014 10:00 am

Ditching Israel, Embracing Iran

Lee Smith · November 10, 2014 5:00 am

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Iraqi officials: Islamic State leader wounded in airstrike

Susan Crabtree · November 9, 2014 4:36 pm

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U.S. again hits Khorasan group in Syria

Charles Hoskinson · November 6, 2014 8:16 pm

President Obama answers a question during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday in Washington. Obama says it is "an open question" whether international negotiators and Iran can reach a deal over Tehran's nuclear program. He says that with a deadline looming, the next three to four weeks will be key. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Obama: Too early to say U.S. is winning Islamic State fight

Susan Crabtree · November 5, 2014 11:34 pm

The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower operates. (Rafael Figueroa Medina/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)

How can today’s weapons fit tomorrow’s strategies?

Jed Babbin · November 3, 2014 10:00 am