Tag: Middle East

Israeli soldiers load shells in their tank following the first death on the Israeli side of the Golan since the Syrian civil war erupted more than three years ago, near the Israeli village of Alonei Habashan, in the area of Tel Hazeka, close to the Quneitra border crossing in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Sunday, June 22, 2014. A civilian vehicle in the Golan Heights was targeted by forces in neighboring Syria on Sunday in an attack that killed a 15-year-old boy and prompted Israeli tanks to retaliate by firing on Syrian government targets, the Israeli military said. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Syria: 4 killed, 9 wounded in Israeli airstrikes

RYAN LUCASJOSEF FEDERMAN · June 23, 2014 5:36 pm

White House applauds removal of chemical weapons

Washington Examiner · June 23, 2014 5:11 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, June 20, 2014, Lebanese police intelligence gather outside a hotel in Hamra street in Beirut, Lebanon. An al-Qaida breakaway group's seizure of territory in Iraq and Syria has sent tremors across the Middle East, jolting neighboring countries into action over fears that the Islamic militants may set their sights on them next. In Lebanon heavily armed police busted a suspected sleeper cell allegedly linked to the group, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, in raids on two hotels in central Beirut. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Militant group’s surge in Iraq fans regional fears

RYAN LUCASOMAR AKOUR · June 23, 2014 4:11 pm

Israeli soldiers load shells in their tank following the first death on the Israeli side of the Golan since the Syrian civil war erupted more than three years ago, near the Israeli village of Alonei Habashan, in the area of Tel Hazeka, close to the Quneitra border crossing in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Sunday, June 22, 2014. A civilian vehicle in the Golan Heights was targeted by forces in neighboring Syria on Sunday in an attack that killed a 15-year-old boy and prompted Israeli tanks to retaliate by firing on Syrian government targets, the Israeli military said. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Syria acknowledges Israeli airstrikes, calls them ‘flagrant violation’

Washington Examiner · June 23, 2014 3:13 pm

Iraq at risk again: How did we get here so fast?

Connie Cass · June 23, 2014 1:40 pm

Militants from the al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant patrol in Fallujah, Iraq. (AP)

National Security

White House week ahead: The future of Iraq hangs in the balance

Susan Crabtree · June 23, 2014 12:06 pm

National Security

Iran signals may accept snap nuclear inspections

Washington Examiner · June 23, 2014 9:54 am

Fouad Ajami, 1945-2014

Paul Wolfowitz · June 23, 2014 9:15 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint news conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry following his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Sunday, June 22, 2014, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

National Security

Kerry confronts threat of new war in Iraq

Lara Jakes · June 23, 2014 6:57 am

In this photo taken on June 17, 2014, people shop at a market in Baghdad, Iraq. While the Iraqi capital is not under any immediate threat of falling to the Sunni militants who have captured a wide swath of the country's north and west, battlefield setbacks and the conflict's growing sectarian slant is turning this city of 7 million into an anxiety-filled place waiting for disaster to happen. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq’s capital lives in fear, expects the worst

Hamza Hendawi · June 23, 2014 6:40 am

Israeli soldiers load shells in their tank following the first death on the Israeli side of the Golan since the Syrian civil war erupted more than three years ago, near the Israeli village of Alonei Habashan, in the area of Tel Hazeka, close to the Quneitra border crossing in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Sunday, June 22, 2014. A civilian vehicle in the Golan Heights was targeted by forces in neighboring Syria on Sunday in an attack that killed a 15-year-old boy and prompted Israeli tanks to retaliate by firing on Syrian government targets, the Israeli military said. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli military carries out airstrikes in Syria

Josef Federman · June 23, 2014 6:14 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a joint news conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry following his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Sunday, June 22, 2014, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

John Kerry: Insurgency in Iraq threatens entire Mideast

Lara Jakes · June 22, 2014 6:15 pm