Tag: Middle East

Rivals Hamas, Abbas in first showdown in Gaza

Mohammed Daraghmeh · June 9, 2014 1:53 pm

FILE - In this April 1, 2009, file photo, Israeli President Shimon Peres, left, greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, as Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin stands near during a handover ceremony at Peres' residence in Jerusalem. A nasty race to succeed Shimon Peres as Israel's head of state is finally coming to an end on Tuesday, June 10, 2014, with five candidates facing off in parliament over the right to become the country's next president. (AP Photo/Menahem Kahana, Pool, File)

Israeli parliament set to vote for new president

Aron Heller · June 9, 2014 10:55 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on Sunday, June 8 2014. (AP Photo/Menahem Kahana, Pool)

National Security

Israeli finance minister calls settlements a waste

Josef Federman · June 8, 2014 7:27 pm

Syrian soldiers walks past a bus with President Bashar Assad's portrait in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday June 3, 2014. Polls opened in government-held areas in Syria amid very tight security Tuesday for the country's presidential election, a vote that President Bashar Assad is widely expected to win. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Syria’s Assad wins presidential vote in landslide

Albert Aji · June 4, 2014 9:08 pm

Correction: Syria story

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2014 1:41 pm

Washington Examiner columnist Jed Babbin's new book "The BDS War Against Israel," written with Herbert London.

‘The BDS War Against Israel:’ Blood libels

Jed Babbin · June 4, 2014 1:28 pm

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani makes an address during a ceremony marking the 25th death anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, at his shrine just outside Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Iran's moderate president said Tuesday that his administration will defend the Islamic Republic's nuclear rights and work to end international sanctions that have devastated its economy. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

National Security

Iran’s president vows to defend nuclear rights

Washington Examiner · June 3, 2014 10:09 pm

Tens of thousands of Hamas supporters attend a rally to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the assassination of the group's spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin in an Israeli airstrike a decade ago, in Gaza City, Sunday, March 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Beltway Confidential

President Obama shirks his campaign pledge not to deal with Hamas

Philip Klein · June 3, 2014 4:48 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, Pool)

National Security

Netanyahu tells AP he is ‘troubled’ by US decision

Josef Federman · June 3, 2014 4:34 pm

Netanyahu `Troubled’ by US Decision

Washington Examiner · June 3, 2014 3:13 pm

Washington Examiner columnist Jed Babbin's new book "The BDS War Against Israel," written with Herbert London.

‘The BDS War Against Israel:’ Rebutting the lies

Jed Babbin · June 3, 2014 11:00 am

European Union Ambassador to the US Joao Vale de Almeida answers questions during a newsmaker interview at the Associated Press in Washington, Monday, June 2, 2014. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

West will work with new Palestinian government

MATTHEW LEELARA JAKES · June 2, 2014 8:22 pm