Tag: Middle East

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

Saudi Arabia tests man suspected of having Ebola

Washington Examiner · August 5, 2014 11:40 am

Ben-Gurion Airport uses the most sophisticated aviation security in the world, which protects flights from all threats, including Hamas rocket shrapnel landing outside the airport (the occurrence on Tuesday which triggered the ban). (AP Photo)

The four foundations of U.S. national security

Jed Babbin · August 5, 2014 9:00 am

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man carries the body of Avrohom Wallis during his funeral in Jerusalem, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. An assault carried out with a construction vehicle served as another reminder of the tense climate. Israeli TV stations broadcast a series of amateur videos of the attack, in which a Palestinian man used the front shovel of a construction excavator to ram a bus and tip it over. Police said a man who worked at the site was run over and killed by the construction vehicle. He was identified as a 29-year-old religious inspector whose job was to ensure that ancient graves were not damaged by construction work. A policeman who happened to be in the area shot the driver, who was identified as a resident of a Palestinian neighborhood in east Jerusalem. The man's uncle, Hisham Jaabis, said the incident was a traffic accident and that his nephew had been gunned down in cold blood while trying to dodge the bus. "All of them started shooting at him," he said. In the past, Palestinian attackers have gone on deadly rampages with bulldozers in Jerusalem traffic. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel, Hamas accept Egyptian cease-fire plan

Josef Federman · August 5, 2014 3:00 am

National Security

US expresses support for Mideast cease-fire

Washington Examiner · August 5, 2014 1:47 am