Tag: Middle East

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announces a 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire beginning Friday between Israel and Hamas, in New Delhi, India, Friday. (AP/Lucas Jackson)

Seriously, what is John Kerry doing?

David Harsanyi · August 1, 2014 2:55 pm

Palestinians return to the heavily bombed Gaza City neighborhood of Shijaiyah, close to the Israeli border, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A three-day Gaza cease-fire that began Friday quickly unraveled, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the truce. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

In brief lull, Gaza’s displaced survey devastation

Karin Laub · August 1, 2014 1:46 pm

Iraq’s top Shiite cleric urges peaceful transition

Washington Examiner · August 1, 2014 12:35 pm

A Palestinian arranges empty cooking gas canisters in Gaza City, Wednesday, March 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Energy and Environment

Hamas keeps Gaza’s economic future bottled up by blocking natural gas development

Arthur Herman · August 1, 2014 11:34 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press conference addressed jointly with Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 31, 2014. This is Kerry's first visit to India following the resounding election win of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May. (AP Photo/Lucas Jackson, Pool)

National Security

Brokering a truce in Gaza no easy deal for Kerry

Lara Jakes · August 1, 2014 11:24 am

In this July 14, 2014 photo, Syrian refugee Umm Jamil looks on at her house in Halba town, northern Lebanon. Jamil, who takes care of her 19-year-old disabled son, said she was falsely accused of prostitution after Lebanese police confused her for another suspected prostitute in her building. Her brief detention left her feeling humiliated and wanting to leave Lebanon, where she said Syrian women are often seen as being sexually promiscuous. (AP Photo/Diaa Hadid)

Syrian refugee women face sexual exploitation

Diaa Hadid · August 1, 2014 7:12 am

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 16, 2014, file photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas listens to Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby, during their meeting at his residence in Cairo, Egypt. Nearly a month into Israel's fierce assault on Hamas in Gaza, Abbas is facing mounting domestic pressure to seek war crimes charges against Israel at the International Criminal Court. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Abbas seeks broad support for war crimes charges

KARIN LAUBJOHN HEILPRIN · August 1, 2014 3:58 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press conference addressed jointly with Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 31, 2014. This is Kerry's first visit to India following the resounding election win of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May. (AP Photo/Lucas Jackson, Pool)

Gaza truce comes after days of pushing for a deal

Lara Jakes · August 1, 2014 2:24 am

Rockets are fired from Gaza Strip towards Israel, Thursday, July 31, 2014, as international efforts to end the 23-day-old conflict seemed to sputter despite concern over the mounting death toll. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Top UN aid official urges daily ‘pauses’ in Gaza

Edith Lederer · July 31, 2014 11:00 pm

Palestinian Heygar Jendiyah, gestures as she speaks to the photographer, while her daughter Ranin, 10, stands background, at the house, partially destroyed by an Israeli strike earlier during the war, in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 31, 2014. The building houses 21 members of the extended family, and now with several rooms destroyed, they try to go about their lives, without electricity and without running water for several hours a day. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israel vows to destroy Hamas tunnels, deaths spike

IAN DEITCHIBRAHIM BARZAK · July 31, 2014 9:47 pm

Tunisian custom officers check the luggage of a man fleeing from Libya at the Ras Ajdir border post between Libya and Tunisia, southern Tunisia, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Up to 6,000 people a day have fled Libya into neighboring Tunisia this week, the Tunisian foreign minister said Wednesday, the biggest influx since Libya's 2011 civil war in a sign of the spiraling turmoil as rival militias battle over control of the airport in the capital Tripoli. (AP Photo/Ali Manssour)

Libya Islamic militias declare control of Benghazi

OMAR ALMOSMARIMAGGIE MICHAEL · July 31, 2014 8:22 pm

An Israeli activist waves the Israeli flag in support of Israel's operation in Gaza, during a demonstration in Tel Aviv, in this file photo taken Saturday, July 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

An American living in Israel: Numbers don’t tell the true story about Israel in Gaza

Eliana Rudee · July 31, 2014 4:13 pm