Tag: Middle East

Car bomb kills at least 22 in southern Syria

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2014 5:12 pm

National Security

Iran: Nuclear deal by November deadline unlikely

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2014 5:00 pm

Palestinian boys with Hamas supporters hold toy guns and shout slogans to support people in Gaza and Palestinian negotiators in Cairo, Egypt, during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. Israel and Hamas are observing a five-day cease-fire which began at midnight Wednesday, in an attempt to allow talks between the sides in Cairo to continue. The negotiations are meant to secure a substantive end to the monthlong war and draw up a roadmap for the coastal territory of Gaza, which has been hard-hit in the fighting. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

EU says status quo for Gaza ‘not an option’

MOHAMMED DARAGHMEHJUERGEN BAETZ · August 15, 2014 4:43 pm

National Security

Weekly Examiner: Obama’s working vacation

Lisa Ruhl · August 15, 2014 1:50 pm

Obama: No Iraq rescue; further airdrops unlikely

ROBERT BURNSKEN DILANIAN · August 15, 2014 1:14 am

National Security

Iraq’s al-Maliki gives up post to rival

SAMEER N. YACOUBQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA · August 15, 2014 1:06 am

U.S. Army soldiers stand in formation as they prepare to leave Iraq on December 8, 2011 at Camp Virginia, near Kuwait City, Kuwait. (Photo by Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

Obama: The Iraq ‘bug out’ was not my idea

Larry Elder · August 14, 2014 10:10 pm

Displaced Palestinian family members pass their time at the U.N. school where they sought refuge during the war, in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been displaced in the Israel-Hamas war that began July 8, at least 10,000 housing units have been destroyed and many have found refuge at U.N. schools turned into shelters. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

National Security

Palestinians voice optimism as Gaza truce holds

MOHAMMED DARAGHMEHTIA GOLDENBERG · August 14, 2014 7:14 pm

In this Aug. 6, 2014, photo, displaced Iraqis who fled from their towns after advances by Islamic militants take shelter in Najaf, Iraq. Some 50,000 newly displaced Shiite Turkmen arrived the Shiite holy city of Najaf, where they are safe for now _ but not without extreme hardship. They journeyed several hours across Iraq's sprawling deserts. Some traveled without food or water in the blistering heat made worse by an overcrowded buses of hysterical refugees _ many of them far less fortunate, having lost a relative or two at the hands of the unforgiving militants who view them as apostates. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)

Displaced Iraqis escape fighting, but not hardship

VIVIAN SALAMASAMEER N. YACOUB · August 14, 2014 6:48 pm

FILE- In this Monday, Aug. 11, 2014 file photo, Palestinian Ziad Rizk, sits with others in a shelter made of a blanket stretched over four boles next to one of the destroyed al-Nada Towers, where he lost his apartment and clothes shop, in the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. Dozens of residents the al-Nada Towers took advantage of the latest truce to visit their homes, salvage what they can and exchange tips on how best to seek and secure compensation for their homes. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

National Security

Subtle voices of dissent surface in war-torn Gaza

Hamza Hendawi · August 14, 2014 6:40 pm

Syrian troops seize contested Damascus suburb

Ryan Lucas · August 14, 2014 2:03 pm

National Security

Obama weighs strategy against Islamic State

KEN DILANIANLARA JAKES · August 14, 2014 7:14 am