Tag: Middle East

Zogby Report Card: After such a bad week, Obama should go on vacation early

Paul Bedard · July 26, 2014 10:00 am

Two and a half-year-old Muhammad Al Masri rests on his mother's legs in a classroom at a United Nations school where hundreds of families have sought refuge after fleeing their homes following heavy Israeli forces' strikes, in Jebaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Friday, July 25, 2014. Over 140,000 Palestinians are seeking shelter in 83 UNRWA schools, according to UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness. The number of Palestinians seeking shelter since the ground operation began has increased seven-fold. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Gaza sides agree to lull but truce efforts stall

KARIN LAUBIAN DEITCH · July 26, 2014 2:26 am

Israeli soldiers patrol the town of Sderot after a group of Hamas militants was detected infiltrating into Israel. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Beltway Confidential

Stephen Walt’s ‘Israel lobby’ paranoia

Charles Hoskinson · July 25, 2014 8:15 pm

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a rally to mark Jerusalem Day or Al-Quds day, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 25, 2014. Nasrallah said that the "resistance" in Gaza became victorious after the Zionists and all their backers worldwide failed in achieving any of their goals. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah leader vows to support Gazans

Zeina Karam · July 25, 2014 5:22 pm

Israeli soldiers enter a tunnel discovered near the Israel Gaza border. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Hamas’ triumph

Mona Charen · July 25, 2014 3:08 pm

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry listens as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon makes a statement regarding the violence in Gaza during their meeting in Cairo, Thursday, July 24, 2014. Israeli tank shells hit a compound housing a U.N. school in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens who were seeking shelter from fierce clashes on the streets outside, Palestinian officials said, as Israel pressed forward with its 17-day war against the territory's Hamas rulers.(AP Photo/Pool)

National Security

Deal still elusive for Gaza cease-fire

Lara Jakes · July 25, 2014 12:26 pm

FILE - In this Saturday, March 28, 2009 file photo, Sahwa, or Awakening Council members stand guard in the Dora area of southern Baghdad, Iraq. Over the past month, militants led by the extremist Islamic State group overpowered the military and the Sahwa, seizing control of most of the Sunni-dominated areas of Iraq. The jihadis have systematically killed dozens of former Sahwa leaders, forced others to flee and recruited the remaining foot soldiers through intimidation. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed, File)

Iraq Sunni militias pinched by jihadis, corruption

RYAN LUCASQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA · July 25, 2014 10:55 am

Hamas tunnel threat at center of war with Israel

Tia Goldenberg · July 25, 2014 7:22 am

A Palestinian man carries a child, wounded in an Israeli strike on a compound housing a U.N. school in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, cries at the emergency room of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, Thursday, July 24, 2014. Israeli tank shells hit the compound, killing more than a dozen people and wounding dozens more who were seeking shelter from fierce clashes on the streets outside. Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra says the dead and injured in the school compound were among hundreds of people seeking shelter from heavy fighting in the area. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

National Security

UN school in Gaza caught in cross-fire; 15 killed

IBRAHIM BARZAKIAN DEITCH · July 25, 2014 1:07 am

FILE - This April 30, 2014 file photo shows Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cruz, a potential Republican presidential contender in 2016 is questioning whether President Barack Obama used a federal agency to impose an economic boycott on Israel after the Federal Aviation Administration banned U.S. airline flights to Tel Aviv because of safety concerns amid fighting between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo, J. Scott Applewhite, File)

National Security

Cruz demands answers on FAA flight ban to Israel

Washington Examiner · July 24, 2014 10:34 pm

UN: 9 aid trucks enter Syria without government OK

Washington Examiner · July 24, 2014 9:52 pm

FILE - In this July 17, 2014, file photo,. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Robert Menendez, D-N.J., gestures as she speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Menendez threatened Thursday, July 24, to block U.S. arms sales to Iraq if Congress doesn't get an assessment of Iraqi forces and assurances the weapons won't fall into the hands of extremist militants.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

National Security

Senator: No arms to Iraq unless Congress gets info

Washington Examiner · July 24, 2014 7:48 pm