Tag: Middle East

Shiri Medina, center left, hugs her daughter Yael, as they returned home a month after they fled to different locations, in Netiv Haasara near the Israel Gaza border on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. With a cease-fire taking hold, residents of southern Israel slowly begin trickling back to hometowns that largely emptied out during a monthlong war against Hamas militants in the neighboring Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Southern Israelis cautiously prepare to head home

Aron Heller · August 6, 2014 8:35 pm

Car bombs kill 51 in Baghdad Shiite neighborhoods

SAMEER N. YACOUBSINAN SALAHEDDIN · August 6, 2014 7:26 pm

Yemen army says 18 al-Qaida militants killed

Washington Examiner · August 6, 2014 6:10 pm

Lebanese army reinforcements arrive to the outskirts of Arsal, a predominantly Sunni Muslim town near the Syrian border in eastern Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. Thousands of Lebanese civilians and Syrian refugees packed cars and pickup trucks Monday, fleeing an eastern border town that was overrun by militants from neighboring Syria as Lebanese troops fight to liberate the area. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Some Syrian militants pull out of Lebanese town

Diaa Hadid · August 6, 2014 5:40 pm

Beltway Confidential

Three times pro-Palestine public figures likely made things worse for their cause

Becket Adams · August 6, 2014 2:22 pm

UK parliamentary committee urges action on Gaza

Danica Kirka · August 6, 2014 1:26 pm

Palestinians in a car with their belongings drive past a destroyed house in Rafah's district of Shawkah in the southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. The attack at the Shawkah district east of the Gaza town of Rafah drew what was by far the heaviest shelling by the Israeli military in the Gaza war, killing nearly 100 people that day alone and instantly unraveling a three-day ceasefire shortly after it came into force. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Gaza border town in ruins after Israeli attack

Hamza Hendawi · August 6, 2014 6:31 am

National Security

Why the killing of a general won’t change U.S. strategy in Afghanistan

Brian Hughes · August 5, 2014 9:21 pm

Mohammed al-Bakri brings the body of his three-year-old son Kamal to the boy's wounded mother, Dua, at the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. The boy was killed Monday along with two other family members in an Israeli missile strike on their home in Shati refugee camp, Gaza City. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

National Security

Israel, Hamas to negotiate new Gaza deal in Cairo

KARIN LAUBMAGGIE MICHAEL · August 5, 2014 8:51 pm

Lebanese army soldiers flash victory signs while in an armored personnel carrier as reinforcements arrive to the outskirts of Arsal, a predominantly Sunni Muslim town near the Syrian border in eastern Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. Thousands of Lebanese civilians and Syrian refugees packed cars and pickup trucks Monday, fleeing an eastern border town that was overrun by militants from neighboring Syria as Lebanese troops fight to liberate the area. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese army agrees to 24-hour truce in town

Bassem Mroue · August 5, 2014 5:19 pm

FILE - This is a Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013 file photo of Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, British senior minister of state at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, listens to a reporter during a joint news conference with Sartaj Aziz in Islamabad, Pakistan. Britain's first female Muslim Cabinet member Sayeeda Warsi has resigned in protest of British government policies on Gaza.Sayeeda Warsi, a Foreign Office minister, says that she wrote to Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday Aug. 5, 2014 saying she could "no longer support" government policy. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash/File)

UK Muslim Cabinet member quits over Gaza policies

Danica Kirka · August 5, 2014 3:51 pm

Dubai’s Emirates halting flights to northern Iraq

Adam Schreck · August 5, 2014 3:17 pm