Tag: Middle East

Fighting rages over Iraqi town north of Baghdad

Sinan Salaheddin · July 14, 2014 8:42 pm

An Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket from Gaza Strip in the costal city of Ashkelon, Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Good news: Obama administration supports a border fence — in Israel

Cal Thomas · July 14, 2014 7:32 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken July 5, 2014, an Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket from Gaza Strip in the costal city of Ashkelon, Israel. Israel says its punishing air assault on Hamas militants, their property and their weaponry has delivered a devastating blow to the Islamic militant group. Yet rocket fire at Israel has continued almost unabated. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Despite offensive, Gaza rockets still hit Israel

Aron Heller · July 14, 2014 6:06 am

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept, 17, 2013 file photo, an Iranian man surfs the Internet at a cafe in Tehran, Iran. Iran's official news agency reported on Sunday, July 13, 2014 that eight Facebook page administrators have been handed jail sentences from eight to 21 years. The report by IRNA says the defendants were convicted of plotting against national security, spreading propaganda against the ruling system and insulting officials. It did not identify the defendants or the Facebook pages. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Iranian court sentences Facebook activists to jail

Washington Examiner · July 13, 2014 6:20 pm

An Israeli armored personnel drives along the Israel and Gaza border, Sunday, July 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Benjamin Netanyahu calls Israeli military response ‘surgical’

Zack Colman · July 13, 2014 4:27 pm

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif waits for the start of closed-door nuclear talks with European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, July 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Iranian foreign minister: Keep Iraq intact

Zack Colman · July 13, 2014 4:27 pm

Iraqi former Parliament speaker and the chairman of the Sunni Arab Coalition Osama al-Nujaifi, center, speaks to the media during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 13, 2014. Iraq's deadlocked parliament ended its second session after just 30 minutes Sunday without making any progress toward forming a new government that can unite the country and confront the Sunni militant blitz that has seized control of a huge chunk of the country. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq parliament postpones decision on new leaders

SINAN SALAHEDDINQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA · July 13, 2014 3:48 pm

Smoke rises following an Israeli strike on Gaza, seen from the Israel Gaza border on Sunday, July 13, 2014. Israel briefly deployed ground troops inside the Gaza Strip for the first time early Sunday as its military warned northern Gaza residents to evacuate their homes, part of a widening offensive that has killed more than 160 Palestinians. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

AP Analysis: Mideast crisis a strategic stalemate

Dan Perry · July 13, 2014 3:17 pm

Israelis stand on a hill at the Israeli town of Sderot, overlooking the Gaza Strip, as they watch smoke rising following an Israeli strike on Gaza, Saturday, July 12, 2014. Ignoring international appeals for a cease-fire, Israel on Saturday widened its range of Gaza bombing targets to civilian institutions with suspected Hamas ties and announced it would hit northern Gaza "with great force" to prevent rocket attacks from there on Israel. More than 150 Palestinians have been killed in five days of bombardment. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israel troops briefly raid Gaza as offensive rages

KHALED KHAZZIHAMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · July 13, 2014 5:04 am

In this Friday, July 11, 2014 photo, an Islamic militant speaks to people during a celebration of their declaration of an Islamic state at a mosque in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Sunni militants seized control of the Anbar city of Fallujah, and parts of Ramadi in January. The government has since reasserted its control of Ramadi, but Fallujah remains in insurgent hands. (AP Photo)

UN warns Iraq of ‘chaos’ if no political progress

Qassim AbdulZahra · July 12, 2014 11:38 pm

Iraqi Kurds take over 2 northern oil fields

Sinan Salaheddin · July 12, 2014 6:23 am

Palestinian relatives mourn over the body of Noor Alnajedy, 10, who was killed during an Israeli air strike on a building near his family house, at the main mosque during his funeral in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Friday July 11, 2014. Israel launched the Gaza offensive to stop incessant rocket fire that erupted after three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and killed in the West Bank and a Palestinian teenager was abducted and burned to death in an apparent reprisal attack. The military says it has hit more than 1,100 targets already, mostly what it identified as rocket-launching sites, bombarding the territory on average every five minutes. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)

Over 100 killed in Gaza as rockets fall on Israel

Aron Heller · July 12, 2014 2:17 am