Tag: Middle East

Three Iron Dome rockets explode to intercept rockets launched from the Gaza Strip by Palestinians militants, as seen from the Israel Gaza border, southern Israel, Thursday. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Ronald Reagan’s missile defense vision is saving lives in Israel: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner · July 16, 2014 9:20 pm

Then-Capt. Doug Zembiec gives orders to his men over a radio prior to leaving their secured compound for a short patrol in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. (AP/U.S. Marine Corps. via The Albuquerque Journal, Sgt. Jose E. Guillen)

Beltway Confidential

Heroic Marine, nicknamed ‘Lion of Fallujah,’ finally honored for CIA service

Blake Seitz · July 16, 2014 5:05 pm

Palestinian Suma Abu Mahsen, 7, stands by a damaged wall of a house following an overnight Israeli missile strike to a nearby transition center for newly released convicts, that was not yet operational, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, July 15, 2014. An Egyptian truce proposal for the conflict in Gaza quickly unraveled Tuesday, after the Islamic militant group Hamas rejected the plan. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israel: Hamas to pay price for its ‘no’ to truce

KARIN LAUBARON HELLER · July 16, 2014 12:24 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaking to the media after closed-door nuclear talks on Iran take place in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, July 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

National Security

Iranian Nukes: Gaps remain, but talks continue

LARA JAKESGEORGE JAHN · July 15, 2014 9:22 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 27, 2010 file photo, Sunni lawmaker Salim al-Jubouri speaks to the press in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi lawmakers broke their deadlock Tuesday and elected Sunni lawmaker Salim al-Jubouri as the new speaker of parliament, taking the first formal step toward forming a new government that is widely seen as crucial to confronting militants who have overrun much of the country. According to the constitution, parliament now has 30 days to elect a president, who will then have 15 days to ask the leader of the largest bloc in the legislature to form a government. Then a prime minister will be picked. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Iraqi parliament breaks deadlock to elect speaker

QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRASINAN SALAHEDDIN · July 15, 2014 6:39 pm

In this Monday, July 14, 2014 photo, sisters Mariam Attar, center right, and Sada Attar, center left, rest with their children inside the New Gaza Boys United Nations School after fleeing their home in fear of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City. The children of the Attar clan have lived through three wars in just over five years, each time fleeing their homes as Israel bombarded their neighborhood in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Scars show as Gaza’s children endure third war

Karin Laub · July 15, 2014 6:21 pm

A Palestinian man rides past a transition center for newly released convicts that was empty and not yet operational, that was hit by an overnight Israeli missile strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Beltway Confidential

Poll finds Republicans sympathize with Israel much more strongly than Democrats

Philip Klein · July 15, 2014 4:52 pm

Smoke rises after an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, Tuesday, July 15, 2014. The Israeli military says it has resumed airstrikes on Gaza after Hamas militants violated a de-escalation brokered by Egypt. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Key demands, issues in Israel-Gaza cease-fire

Tia Goldenberg · July 15, 2014 2:16 pm

Why Israel Is Winning This War

Elliott Abrams · July 15, 2014 12:08 pm

Kerry opts against a Mideast mediation trip

Washington Examiner · July 15, 2014 5:16 am

A Palestinian mourner cries as she talks to a TV journalist, while the bodies of Mousa Abu Muamer, 56, and his son Saddam, 27, who were killed in an overnight Israeli missile strike at their house are brought in during their funeral procession, on the outskirts of the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, July 14, 2014. Saddam's wife Hanadi, 27, was also killed in the attack. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Egypt proposes cease-fire between Israel, Hamas

JOSEF FEDERMANMAGGIE MICHAEL · July 15, 2014 2:06 am

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, shakes hands with Qatari Defense Minister Hamad bin Ali al-Attiyah, at the Pentagon, Monday, July 14, 2014, during a signing ceremony. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US selling $11 billion in arms to Qatar

Washington Examiner · July 14, 2014 9:45 pm