Tag: Middle East

In this photo taken on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014 provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis shakes hands with Cardinal Fernando Filoni at the Vatican. Pope Francis is sending Cardinal Filoni as his personal envoy to Iraq to show solidarity with Christians who have been forced from their homes by Islamic militants. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

Pope appeals to UN to end tragedy in Iraq

Nicole Winfield · August 13, 2014 3:07 pm

Supplies rose by 230,000 barrels per day to 93 million barrels per day, largely a result of higher production from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries as output from outside the oil cartel slipped. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

Global oil supply rises in face of Russian sanctions, Middle East crisis

Zack Colman · August 13, 2014 2:50 pm

Islamic militants seize 2 northern Syrian towns

Zeina Karam · August 13, 2014 2:42 pm

$FILE - This Sept. 1, 2013, file photo shows Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va, as he talks with media before entering a classified members-only briefing on Syria by senior administration officials on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Little of the impassioned debate that fractured lawmakers last year over possible military intervention in Syria is happening now as American war planes strike extremist targets in Iraq. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)$ National Security

Congress on board with Obama’s Iraq plans

Bradley Klapper · August 13, 2014 7:23 am

FILE - This undated file photo shows Israeli Army 2nd. Lt. Hadar Goldin, 23, from Kfar Saba, central Israel. Israel's military announced early Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, that Goldin, of the Givati infantry brigade, had been killed in battle.(AP Photo/YNet News) ISRAEL OUT

Israeli tactic to stop soldier capture criticized

Aron Heller · August 13, 2014 5:08 am

Israel targeting mosques hurts Gaza social fabric

Hamza Hendawi · August 13, 2014 4:32 am

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, file photo, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki listens to a question during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad. On Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, al-Maliki ordered security forces not to intervene in the current political crisis over who will be the next prime minister, but rather focus on defending the country, which is under attack by Sunni militants in the north. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed, File)

Iraq’s prime minister seems increasingly isolated

VIVIAN SALAMASAMEER N. YACOUB · August 13, 2014 2:18 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, second from right, along with U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, right, addresses the start of the Australia-US Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) talks at Admiralty House in Sydney, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. Kerry and Hagel are meeting with their Australian counterparts at the annual AUSMIN, which will focus on regional security and enhanced military co-operation. (AP Photo/Dan Himbrechts, Pool)

National Security

US urges speedy formation of new Iraq government

Matthew Lee · August 12, 2014 11:39 pm

National Security

US sends 130 more troops to Iraq

ROBERT BURNSLOLITA C. BALDOR · August 12, 2014 11:35 pm

Palestinian Ziad Rizk, 38, sits with others in a shelter made of a blanket stretched over four boles next to one of the destroyed Nada Towers, where he lost his apartment and clothes shop, in the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Egypt presents proposal to end war in Gaza

Mohammed Daraghmeh · August 12, 2014 10:23 pm

President Obama, shown here at an August 1 press briefing, told the New York Times that politicians "... are rewarded for taking the most extreme, maximalist positions." (Getty Images/ Chip Somodevilla)

Fact-challenged and extreme? Do you really want to go there, Mr. President?

David Limbaugh · August 12, 2014 9:29 pm

FILE - The June 12, 2014 file photo shows Amal Alamuddin, human rights lawyer and fiancee of US actor George Clooney, as she attends the 'End Sexual Violence in Conflict' summit in London. Alamuddin has been chosen for the U.N.'s three-member commission of inquiry looking into possible violations of the rules of war in Gaza, United Nations Human Rights Council said Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, file)

Gaza probe ‘operational’ without Alamuddin

Washington Examiner · August 12, 2014 8:17 pm