Tag: Middle East

In this image released by The White House, President Barack Obama meets with the National Security Council in the Situation Room of the White House, Thursday morning, Aug. 7, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/The White House, Pete Souza)

National Security

How Obama decided on airstrikes in Iraq

Josh Lederman · August 8, 2014 11:57 pm

Smoke rises after airstrikes by the U.S. forces targeting Islamic State militants near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. The airstrikes by the U.S. forces were launched outside the Kurdish regional capital Irbil, and marked the first time U.S. forces have directly targeted the extremist Islamic State group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

National Security

A guide to daily developments in Iraq

Washington Examiner · August 8, 2014 11:13 pm

Smoke, dust and debris rise over Gaza City after an Israeli strike, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, as Israel and Gaza militants resumed cross-border attacks after a three-day truce expired and Egyptian-brokered talks on a new border deal for blockaded Gaza hit a deadlock. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israel-Hamas truce collapses in new violence

JOSEF FEDERMANMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · August 8, 2014 10:24 pm

This image made from video taken on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014 shows Iraqis people from the Yazidi community arriving in Irbil in northern Iraq after Islamic militants attacked the towns of Sinjar and Zunmar. Around 40 thousand people crossed the bridge of Shela in Fishkhabur into the Northern Kurdish Region of Iraq, after being given an ultimatum by Islamic militants to either convert to Islam, pay a security tax, leave their homes, or die. (AP Photo via AP video)

Iraq official: Militants hold 100s of Yazidi women

Sameer Yacoub · August 8, 2014 8:02 pm

Smoke rises after airstrikes by the U.S. forces targeting Islamic State militants near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. The airstrikes by the U.S. forces were launched outside the Kurdish regional capital Irbil, and marked the first time U.S. forces have directly targeted the extremist Islamic State group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

National Security

Iraqis flee militants as US warplanes strike

BRAM JANSSENDIAA HADID · August 8, 2014 7:24 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken Monday, July 21, 2014, Palestinians pray over Hamas flag-draped bodies of 17 members of the Abu Jamea immediate and extended family, killed by an Israeli strike at their house, during their funeral at the main mosque in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. In the grisly math of the Israel-Hamas war, conflicting counts of combatants and civilians killed in Gaza are emerging - with the ratio perhaps more important to shaping international opinion of the monthlong conflict than any final toll. U.N. researchers and local rights groups say three-fourth of some 1,900 dead were civilians, while the Israeli military estimates the split is closer to 50-50. Those doing the tallies use different methods and standards to make that all important determination of who is a civilian. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali, File)

In Gaza, dispute over civilian vs combatant deaths

KARIN LAUBYOUSUR ALHLOU · August 8, 2014 7:07 pm

Immigration reform won't happen until next year, House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday on Hugh Hewitt's radio show. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

John Boehner supports airstrikes but ‘dismayed’ by Obama’s Iraq policies

Sean Lengell · August 8, 2014 5:57 pm

President Obama turns to leave the podium after he spoke about the situation in Iraq in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Beltway Confidential

Obama’s narrow, specific, extremely limited action in Iraq

Byron York · August 8, 2014 4:24 pm

Palestinian supporters of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad movement chant slogans against the Israeli military action in Gaza, during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Jenin on Friday. (AP/Mohammed Ballas)

How the United Nations prevents peace in the Middle East

Mona Charen · August 8, 2014 2:46 pm

Kurdish soldiers with the Peshmerga keep guard near the frontline with Sunni militants on the outskirts of Kirkuk, an oil-rich Iraqi city on June 25 in Kirkuk, Iraq. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

National Security

U.S. military aircraft conducts first airstrike in Iraq

Susan Crabtree · August 8, 2014 2:10 pm

National Security

VIDEO: Obama announces Iraq airstrikes, humanitarian aid

Ed Sykes · August 8, 2014 1:07 pm

Lebanon’s former PM returns from exile amid crisis

Zeina Karam · August 8, 2014 12:57 pm