Tag: Middle East

This Sunday, May 4, 2014 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 Syrian men carrying the body of a man who was killed by a government forces airstrike, in Aleppo, Syria. Syrian state media say on Monday, May 5, 2014 rockets have slammed into a government-held district in the northern city of Aleppo, killing many people. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Syria clashes kill 21 rebels in Aleppo province

Barbara Surk · May 5, 2014 4:27 pm

FILE - In this file photo provided on Nov. 24, 2011, by the office of Khaled Mashaal, Palestinian Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are seen together during their meeting in Cairo, Egypt. A spokesman said Monday, May 5, 2014, that Mashaal and Abbas have held a rare meeting in Doha, Qatar, and agreed to move forward with a reconciliation deal between their rival movements. Abbas was in Doha for a grandson's college graduation. (AP Photo/Office of Khaled Meshaal, File)

Rival Palestinian leaders discuss reconciliation

abdullah-rebhy · May 5, 2014 3:43 pm

An Ethiopian Jew looks at the wall of names at the Armored Corps memorial for fallen soldiers before a ceremony marking the annual Memorial Day for soldiers and civilians killed in more than a century of conflict between Jews and Arabs, in Latrun near Jerusalem, Israel, Monday, May 5, 2014. Israel came to a standstill on Monday as sirens wailed across the country on its annual Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel honors war dead with somber Memorial Day

Washington Examiner · May 5, 2014 3:36 pm

In this image taken from video obtained from Youth Against Settlements, a group of Palestinian activists, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Palestinian teen confronts an Israeli soldier in the West Bank city of Hebron. The reprimand of an Israeli soldier, caught on video cursing and pointing a cocked gun toward the head of a Palestinian teen, has triggered the biggest outpouring of frustration by Israeli soldiers in years about their service in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Youth Against Settlements)

Video of clash brings outcry from Israeli troops

Karin Laub · May 5, 2014 7:02 am

Officials say the man fell ill with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, after flying to the U.S. last month from Saudi Arabia, where he was a health care worker. (AP Photo)

Update set on MERS virus case in northwestern Indiana

Associated Press · May 5, 2014 4:00 am

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2011 file photo, Iran's heavy water nuclear facility is backdropped by mountains near the central city of Arak, Iran. International nuclear inspectors will visit two sites in Iran in the coming days, the country's official news agency reported Sunday, as an official said that would fulfill a series of demands made by the United Nations nuclear watchdog. (AP Photo/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan, File)

National Security

Report: Nuclear inspectors to visit Iranian sites

Nasser Karimi · May 4, 2014 7:08 pm

In this Thursday, May 1, 2014 photo provided by Yemen's Defense Ministry, soldiers inspect the wreckage of a vehicle destroyed during fighting with al-Qaida militants in Majala of the southern province of Abyan, Yemen. (AP Photo/Yemen's Defense Ministry)

National Security

Al-Qaida announces death of a leader in Yemen

Ahmed AlHaj · May 3, 2014 6:50 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014, Israel's President Shimon Peres delivers a statement following the death of late Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the President's residence in Jerusalem. Among those vying to become Israel's next president are a former defense minister, a former foreign minister, a former finance minister, a respected long-serving lawmaker and a Nobel Prize winner. Amazingly, the man they all seek to replace has held all of those titles and more during a legendary 65-year political career. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Israel’s race to succeed President Shimon Peres heats up

Aron Heller · May 3, 2014 6:23 pm

National Security

Hard-liners in Iran protest nuclear deal

Washington Examiner · May 3, 2014 5:25 pm

Canadian-Egyptian acting Al-Jazeera bureau chief Mohammed Fahmy talks to the judge in the Police Academy courthouse along with several other defendants during their trial on terror charges in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, May 3, 2014. Fahmy made a rare appeal to the judge from outside of the defendants' cage, at the end of which the judge wished him a "happy" World Press Freedom Day. In his brief plea Saturday, Fahmy stood directly before the judge's bench. Fahmy said journalists have to speak to all sides to do their jobs including both the government and the Muslim Brotherhood, among others. (AP Photo/Hamada Elrasam)

Al-Jazeera reporter held in Egypt appeals to judge

Laura Dean · May 3, 2014 3:05 pm

Zogby Report Card: Obama is an ‘ogre of a hellish national security state’

Paul Bedard · May 3, 2014 4:00 am

Cease-fire, evacuation deal in Syria’s Homs

DUSAN STOJANOVICZEINA KARAM · May 2, 2014 7:24 pm