Tag: Middle East

An Iraqi army armored vehicle is seen burned on a street of the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday. (AP)

Was the Iraq war a complete waste?

David Harsanyi · June 12, 2014 7:28 pm

Europe wary of Iraq action; Germans urged to leave

Washington Examiner · June 12, 2014 7:25 pm

President Obama speaks during a Tumblr forum in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Obama not ruling out airstrikes in Iraq

Brian Hughes · June 12, 2014 5:45 pm

National Security

US eyes new aid to Iraq to curb insurgent march

Lara Jakes · June 12, 2014 5:11 am

Militias of the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) deploy in an area in Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 11, 2014. Al-Qaida-inspired militants seized effective control Wednesday of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, expanding their offensive closer to the Iraqi capital as soldiers and security forces abandoned their posts following clashes with the insurgents. (AP Photo)

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Al-Qaida breakaway pursuing an Islamic state

Ryan Lucas · June 11, 2014 10:50 pm

Israeli border policeman and Palestinian protesters argue during a demonstration in support for dozens of Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails, outside Ofer military prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, June 11, 2014. A day before the start of the World Cup in Brazil, protesters dressed up in the jerseys of the Palestinian football team and kicked a ball around outside Ofer, an Israeli lockup in the West Bank. A group of helmeted soldiers prevented them from advancing. Troops fired stun grenades and pushed some of the players who dribbled and kicked the ball over the heads of soldiers. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli airstrike kills 1 in northern Gaza

Ian Deitch · June 11, 2014 10:12 pm

FILE -- In this Monday, Aug. 20, 2012 file photo, an Egyptian youth, trailed by his friends, gropes a woman crossing the street with her friends in Cairo, Egypt. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Egypt's newly sworn-in president, has apologized in person to a woman who was sexually assaulted by a mob during weekend celebrations marking his inauguration. Several women were assaulted during the Sunday, June 8, 2014 inaugural festivities. (AP Photo/Ahmed Abd El Latif, El Shorouk Newspaper, File) EGYPT OUT

Egypt’s el-Sissi visits sex assault victim

Hamza Hendawi · June 11, 2014 6:05 pm

This photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Free Syrian Army fighters running at one of the front lines in the town of Sheikh Najjar, in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday June 10, 2014. Fighting in eastern Syria between Islamic rebel brigades and an al-Qaida splinter group has killed more than 630 people and uprooted at least 130,000 since the end of April, an activist group said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Al-Qaida splinter group encircles Syrian city

Diaa Hadid · June 11, 2014 4:21 pm

Shiite pilgrims beat themselves as a sign of grief outside the holy Shiite shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, May 24. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)

Did al Qaeda win the Iraq war?

Terence Jeffrey · June 11, 2014 3:11 pm

Britain's Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Hugh Robertson arrives at an EU-Arab league Foreign Ministers summit, in Athens, on Wednesday, June 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

EU, Arab League join forces against jihadi threat

Washington Examiner · June 11, 2014 1:40 pm

Israel chooses veteran hard-liner as president

Tia Goldenberg · June 10, 2014 7:39 pm

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses in a ceremony marking 25th death anniversary of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini at his shrine just outside Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday. (AP/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)

America cannot do a damned thing about a nuclear Iran

Mona Charen · June 9, 2014 9:31 pm