Tag: Middle East

Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen patrol in Amirli, some 105 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014. (AP Photo)

National Security

Dianne Feinstein: U.S. should confront ISIS militarily

Rebecca Berg · August 31, 2014 3:08 pm

"I think I've learned one thing about this president, and that is he's very cautious,"ÃÂ Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.,ÃÂ said in an interview on NBC's "Meet The Press." "Maybe in this instance, too cautious." (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty images)

Dianne Feinstein: Obama ‘too cautious’ in response to ISIS

Rebecca Berg · August 31, 2014 2:44 pm

An armed group of men, not specified which group of rebels, gather at Syria's Quneitra border crossing between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. It was unclear if the men were connected to an armed group that, the United Nations said, detained more than 40 U.N. peacekeepers during fighting in Syria early Thursday. The peacekeepers were detained on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights during a "period of increased fighting between armed elements and the Syrian Arab Armed Forces," the office of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement. ( AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Syrian rebels attack peacekeepers in Golan Heights

DIAA HADIDOLIVER TEVES · August 31, 2014 12:04 am

Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid bin Mohammed al-Attiyah, left, arrives to attend a meeting of Gulf foreign ministers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Saturday Aug. 30, 2014. The meeting of Gulf foreign ministers ended on Saturday without a clear way out of a monthslong diplomatic spat with Qatar, although some envoys signaled that progress had been made. Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar in March in an unprecedented public protest largely believed to be spurred by the tiny nation's support for Islamist groups in Egypt, Libya, the Gaza Strip and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency)

Gulf meeting ends without clear end to Qatar spat

abdullah-alshihri · August 30, 2014 7:31 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014 file photo, Palestinian firefighters extinguish a fire in the rubble of the destroyed 15-story Basha Tower, following early morning Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City. Shelter Cluster, chaired by the Norwegian Refugee Council with the participation of the U.N. refugee agency and the Red Cross, an international organization involved in assessing post-conflict reconstruction, said in a report issued late Friday, Aug 29, 2014, it will take 20 years under current levels of restrictions to rebuild the Gaza Strip's battered and neglected housing stock following the war between Hamas and Israel. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Rebuilding Gaza will take 20 years, group says

Peter Enav · August 30, 2014 7:29 pm

Yemen clash kills 4 troops, 13 suspected militants

Ahmed AlHaj · August 30, 2014 5:08 pm

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. Rouhani declined to answer a question about a detained Washington Post journalist, Jason Rezaian. Rezaian and his wife Yeganeh Salehi, a correspondent for the Abu Dhabi-based daily newspaper The National, who have been held for more than a month. Iranian officials have not specifically said why Rezaian and his wife were detained. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

National Security

Iran’s president dodges question on held reporter

Washington Examiner · August 30, 2014 4:55 pm

Egypt court gives 8 Islamists life sentences

Washington Examiner · August 30, 2014 12:27 pm

At heart of Syria fears, extremists returning home

KEN DILANIANBRADLEY KLAPPER · August 29, 2014 8:24 pm

VIDEO: ISIS solution is ‘not just going to be military’

Ed Sykes · August 29, 2014 7:50 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, June 19, 2014, an al-Qaida-inspired militant stands guard at a checkpoint captured from the Iraqi Army outside Beiji refinery, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. As Islamic militants rampaged across northern Iraq in June, seizing vast swaths of territory and driving hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, the Shiite Turkmens living in the hardscrabble town of Amirli decided to stay and fight. (AP Photo, File)

National Security

Iraqi town holds out against militant onslaught

Vivian Salama · August 29, 2014 7:38 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, April 29, 2014, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting with Palestinian businessmen from East Jerusalem to set up a national fund to support the Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas has accused Hamas of needlessly extending fighting in the Gaza Strip, causing a high death toll. He told Palestine TV in remarks broadcast Friday, Aug. 29, that "it was possible for us to avoid all of that, 2,000 martyrs, 10,000 injured, 50,000 houses (damaged or destroyed)." (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi, File)

Palestinian leader says Hamas caused prolonged war

MOHAMMED DARAGHMEHIAN DEITCH · August 29, 2014 6:32 pm