Tag: Middle East

FILE - In this Friday, June 27, 2014, file photo, an Iraqi nun, second from left, speaks with a Christian man who fled with his family from the Christian villages near Mosul, Iraq, at a school that was turned into a shelter for displaced Christian families, in Ainkawa, a suburb of Irbil, Iraq. The Islamic State group gave Mosul's Christians until midday Saturday, July 19, 2014, to convert to Islam, pay a tax or face death. The vast majority of Christians fled. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Under threat, Iraq’s Christians flee city of Mosul

Washington Examiner · July 19, 2014 7:22 pm

Palestinians mourners pray over the lifeless bodies of nine Palestinians killed in an early morning Israeli missile strike, at Bilal mosque during their funeral in the Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 19, 2014. Even as the death toll mounts in the Gaza Strip, attempts to broker a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel have so far run aground, in part because they have become mired in the deep schism between Mideast countries. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Mideast divisions cloud Gaza cease-fire efforts

Maggie Michael · July 19, 2014 4:19 pm

Palestinians salvage their usable belongings from the rubble of their homes in an apartment building after it was hit by an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, Friday, July 18, 2014. Israeli troops pushed deeper into Gaza on Friday to destroy rocket launching sites and tunnels, firing volleys of tank shells and clashing with Palestinian fighters in a high-stakes ground offensive meant to weaken the enclave's Hamas rulers. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israel pushes in Gaza, expanding ground operation

Washington Examiner · July 18, 2014 10:35 pm

In Iraq, Syria, militants try to govern as a state

ZEINA KARAMBASSEM MROUE · July 18, 2014 6:19 pm

Israelis stand on a hill at the Israeli town of Sderot, overlooking the Gaza Strip, as they wait to watch Israeli forces' bombardment and missiles fired by Palestinian militants from inside Gaza towards Israel, Thursday. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Beltway Confidential

CNN removes international correspondent who tweeted about ‘scum’ Israelis

Becket Adams · July 18, 2014 5:12 pm

FILE - This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. Across the broad swath of territory it controls from northern Syria through northern and western Iraq, the extremist group known as the Islamic State has proven to be highly organized governors.

Reports: 115 killed in seizure of Syria gas field

Bassem Mroue · July 18, 2014 4:33 pm

Civilians inspect the site of a bomb attack in Shorja Market in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 17, 2014. A bomb hidden in a wooden cart exploded near a Shiite mosque in one of Baghdad's largest markets, killing and wounding civilians. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

UN: Some 5,500 civilians killed in Iraq this year

Washington Examiner · July 18, 2014 10:52 am

President Obama has never faced this many international crises at once. And it's never been so obvious that he lacks the silver bullet to fix them. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Why perceptions of Obama’s foreign policies may never turn around

Brian Hughes · July 18, 2014 10:00 am

National Security

US: Israel must do more to protect Gaza civilians

LARA JAKESMATTHEW LEE · July 18, 2014 2:14 am

Smoke from flares rises in the sky in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 17, 2014. Israel launched a large-scale ground offensive in the Gaza Strip Thursday, escalating a 10-day military operation to try to destroy Hamas' weapons arsenal, rocket firing abilities and tunnels under the Palestinian territory's border with Israel. It was the first major Israeli ground offensive in Gaza in just over five years. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israel invades Gaza after Hamas rejects truce

KARIN LAUBIAN DEITCH · July 18, 2014 2:11 am

Beltway Confidential

This is CNN: International correspondent tweets that ‘scum’ Israelis cheer shelling, threaten her harm

Becket Adams · July 17, 2014 10:44 pm

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks to the media after closed-door nuclear talks on Iran take place in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, July 15, 2014. Secretary of State John Kerry says he's headed back to Washington today for consultations about extending the nuclear talks between Iran and world powers. Kerry says there's some progress in the talks but also "very real gaps" that will require a lot of work to overcome. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

National Security

Iranian president backs extension of nuclear talks

Nasser Karimi · July 17, 2014 7:43 pm