Tag: Middle East

Missing Israeli teenager has strong US roots

Yousur Alhlou · June 16, 2014 2:55 pm

Iraqi Shiite tribal fighters deploy with their weapons while chanting slogans against the al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), to help the military, which defends the capital in Baghdad's Sadr City, Iraq, Friday. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)

National Security

John Kerry says U.S. open to working with Iran to assist Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 16, 2014 1:52 pm

FILE - This June 12, 2014 file photo shows Secretary of State John Kerry listens during a meeting between President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. With Baghdad threatened by the advance of an al-Qaida-inspired insurgency, the State Department is reinforcing security at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq's capital _ and sending some personnel out of town. Kerry made calls to foreign ministers in Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Qatar to discuss the threat and the need for Iraqi leaders to work together. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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Kerry: US open to talks with Iran over Iraq

Matthew Lee · June 16, 2014 12:43 pm

Dangerous Unity

Elliott Abrams · June 16, 2014 4:00 am

Iraqi Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans against the al-Qaida inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Baghdad's Sadr city, Iraq, Saturday, June 14, 2014. Thousands of Shiites from Baghdad and across southern Iraq answered an urgent call to arms Saturday, joining security forces to fight the Islamic militants who have captured large swaths of territory north of the capital and now imperil a city with a much-revered religious shrine. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Thousands of Iraqi men answer urgent call to arms

HAMZA HENDAWISAMEER N. YACOUB · June 14, 2014 9:53 pm

An Independent Election Commission (IEC) employee shows a ballot to observers at a polling station in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 14, 2014. Despite a Taliban threat to stay away, Afghans lined up Saturday to vote in a presidential runoff between two candidates who both promise to improve ties with the West and combat corruption as they confront a powerful Taliban insurgency and preside over the withdrawal of most foreign troops by the end of the year. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghans brave Taliban threats to choose new leader

AMIR SHAHRAHIM FAIEZ · June 14, 2014 8:31 pm

An Israeli soldier stands guard in the West Bank City of Hebron, Saturday, June 14, 2014. Israeli security forces searched the West Bank for a second day Saturday, looking for three missing teenagers, including a U.S. citizen, who they fear have been abducted by Palestinian militants. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli premier: Terror group took 3 missing teens

Ian Deitch · June 14, 2014 7:53 pm

FILE - This undated file image posted on a militant website on Jan. 4, 2014, which is consistent with other AP reporting, shows Shakir Waheib, a senior member of the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), left, next to a burning police vehicle in Iraq's Anbar Province. For the al-Qaida breakaway group that overran parts of Iraq this week, the border between that country and Syria, where it is also fighting, may as well not even be there. The group, wants to establish a Shariah-ruled mini-state bridging both countries, in effect uniting a Sunni heartland across the center of the Mideast. (AP Photo via Militant Website, File)

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Turmoil blurring Mideast borders

LEE KEATHRYAN LUCAS · June 14, 2014 6:15 pm

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani leaves after a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 14, 2014. Rouhani says the international sanctions regime has crumbled and will not be rebuilt even if Iran and world powers fail to reach a final nuclear deal by a July 20 deadline. Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany reached an interim deal in November that limited Iran's uranium enrichment program in exchange for the easing of some sanctions. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s president: Ready to help Iraq if asked

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · June 14, 2014 3:30 pm

Shiite cleric urges Iraqis to defend country

SAMEER N. YACOUBADAM SCHRECK · June 13, 2014 8:20 pm

Israeli soldiers deploy near the West Bank city of Hebron, Friday, June 13, 2014. Israeli soldiers searched the West Bank on Friday for three missing teenagers from nearby settlements, one of them a U.S. citizen, amid fears Palestinian militants abducted them, authorities said. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Israel scours West Bank for teens feared abducted

Ian Deitch · June 13, 2014 8:19 pm

Israeli dancers kiss each other during the annual Gay Pride Parade on a street of Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, June 13, 2014. Shirtless Israeli men, colorfully dressed drag queens and others partied Friday through central Tel Aviv as it celebrates the week-long event that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their supporters, also known as the LGBT community. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

100,000 party at Israel gay parade, area’s biggest

Ian Deitch · June 13, 2014 6:07 pm