Tag: Middle East

FILE- In this March 18, 2007 file photo, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, left, speak as they head the first cabinet meeting of the new coalition government at Abbas' office in Gaza City. A last-minute dispute has erupted between Hamas and Fatah over the makeup of the Palestinian unity government meant to end the factions' seven-year political split. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of Fatah, has announced plans to swear in a government of technocrats backed by both factions on Monday, June 2, 2014.(AP Photo, File)

Palestinians form unity Cabinet amid Israel threat

MOHAMMED DARAGHMEHIBRAHIM BARZAK · June 2, 2014 7:50 pm

Palestinians wave flags as they celebrate the reconciliation between rival factions Fatah and Hamas, during a rally in Gaza City. President Mahmoud Abbas said a dark period in Palestinian history has ended with the formation of a unity government that formally ends his seven-year rift with the Islamic militant Hamas. But the alliance of old foes remains volatile, while Israel threatens punitive measures and Abbas doesn't know yet if he'll get continued financial aid from the U.S. and Europe to keep the unity government afloat. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian unity government faces many obstacles

Karin Laub · June 2, 2014 6:38 pm

The Lebanonization of the Palestinians

Jonathan Schanzer · June 2, 2014 2:22 pm

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

‘The BDS War Against Israel:’ What is the BDS movement?

Jed Babbin · June 2, 2014 2:19 pm

Top Iran leader urges closer ties with Arab states

Amir Vahdat · June 2, 2014 1:02 pm

Failures Galore

Lee Smith · June 2, 2014 4:00 am

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

Israel PM wants Palestinian government isolated

Josef Federman · June 1, 2014 5:56 pm

Thousands flee Syrian cities ahead of election

Bassem Mroue · May 30, 2014 6:42 pm

Saudi Arabians are not happy that the wife of their new soccer coach is a Playboy-featured model, Al Arabiya reports.

Beltway Confidential

Saudi Arabians don’t want wife of new football coach because she’s a nude model

Ashe Schow · May 30, 2014 6:03 pm

Clashes between rebels, tribesmen kill 12 in Yemen

Ahmed AlHaj · May 30, 2014 4:22 pm

Israeli troops stop Palestinian suicide bomber

Washington Examiner · May 30, 2014 1:14 pm

FILE -- In this August 26, 2013, file Photo, a U.N. team, that is scheduled to investigate an alleged chemical attack that killed hundreds last week in a Damascus suburb, leaves their hotel in a convoy, in Damascus, Syria. In a statement issued Tuesday, May 27, 2014, by the chemical weapons watchdog that is overseeing the dismantling of Syria's chemical weapons program, said a convoy of its inspectors has come under attack, but all are safe. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said that the inspectors had been traveling to the site of an alleged chlorine gas attack site when they were attacked. (AP Photo, File)

Chemical weapons inspectors attacked in Syria

Albert Aji · May 30, 2014 4:00 am