Tag: Middle East

FILE - In this March 22, 2013, file photo, Staffan De Mistura, Italy's then-foreign ministry undersecretary, speaks during a news conference in New Delhi, India. Mistura has been chosen by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to replace Lakhdar Brahimi as the international point man on Syria, diplomats said Wednesday, July 9, 2014. (AP Photo/File)

Diplomats: Staffan de Mistura is new Syria envoy

Edith Lederer · July 10, 2014 1:04 am

National Security

Iran wants to greatly expand uranium enrichment

George Jahn · July 9, 2014 9:05 pm

Iraqi men check in at the main army recruiting center as they volunteer for military services in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, July 9, 2014, after authorities urged Iraqis to help battle insurgents. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraqi leader accuses Kurds of hosting militants

Ryan Lucas · July 9, 2014 8:09 pm

FILE - In this July 1, 2014 file photo, Lance Thompson pumps gas into his truck at a Love's station in St. Joseph, Mo. The price of oil fell for the ninth straight day Wednesday, July 9, 2014, despite continued turmoil in the Middle East, a drop that could lead to lower gasoline prices for U.S. drivers in the weeks ahead. (AP Photo/St. Joseph News-Press, Sait Serkan Gurbuz, File)

Oil on 2-week slide even with Mideast turmoil

Jonathan Fahey · July 9, 2014 7:50 pm

An Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket from the Gaza Strip in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Besides firing toward Israel's two largest population centers in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Hamas also fired one rocket that reached the northern Israeli city of Hadera for the first time, effectively putting the entire country under rocket range from the north and south. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Israeli city in rocket range from both directions

Aron Heller · July 9, 2014 7:35 pm

A woman from an elite unit of female Kurdish Peshmerga fighters trains in Sulaimaniyah, 160 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, in this Thursday, July 3, 2014 photo. (AP Photo)

An independent Kurdistan: World War I continues

Austin Bay · July 9, 2014 7:09 pm

Rockets hit Israeli heartland as offensive begins

JOSEF FEDERMANNAJIB JOBAIN · July 9, 2014 1:18 am

Mourners carry the flag-draped coffin of Abdullah Swadi, a member of an Iraqi volunteer forces group who was killed during clashes with Islamic militants, his family said, during his funeral procession in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)

Iraqi parliament to meet early next week

Qassim AbdulZahra · July 8, 2014 10:02 pm

In this Sunday, July 6, 2014 photo released by the Bahraini opposition group, Al Wifaq, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Tom Malinowski, second left, visits with Sheikh Ali Salman, head of Wifaq National Islamic Society, left, former member of the Bahraini parliament, Abdul Jalil Khalil, second right, Timothy J. Pounds, Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Bahrain, right, and others at a traditional weekly Ramadan gathering or Majlis, in Manama Bahrain. Bahrain ordered Malinowski to leave the country on Monday after they said he met with a leading Shiite opposition group Sunday. The Foreign Ministry said Malinowski intervened in the country's domestic affairs by holding meetings with some groups at the expense of others. Al Wifaq spokesman Abdul Jalil Khalil told The Associated Press that Malinowski was scheduled to hold a joint meeting with them and other opposition groups on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Al Wifaq)

National Security

US diplomat says Bahrain expulsion ‘not about me’

Reem Khalifa · July 8, 2014 9:55 pm

Is it time to drain the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?

Arthur Herman · July 8, 2014 5:00 pm

Hayes Podcast: Chaos at the Border and in the Middle East

TWS Podcast · July 8, 2014 1:34 pm

‘America Is the Arsonist of the Middle East’

Daniel Halper · July 8, 2014 1:02 pm