Tag: Middle East

Dark days for Baghdad on eve of Iraqi elections

Hamza Hendawi · April 28, 2014 6:40 pm

German injured in kidnapping attempt in Yemen

AHMED AL HAJ · April 28, 2014 6:14 pm

FILE - This Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009 file photo shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, seen, during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unseen, at the presidency in Tehran, Iran. Syrian parliament speaker says Assad has declared his candidacy for the June 3 presidential elections. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Syria’s Assad to seek re-election in June vote

Washington Examiner · April 28, 2014 4:40 pm

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With Obama’s foreign policy, fiction is more comforting than the truth

Cal Thomas · April 28, 2014 4:00 am

In this picture taken on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, Lebanese army soldiers patrol a road near Ras al-Haref mountain at the unmarked Lebanese-Syrian border, eastern Lebanon. More recently, the unmarked border between the two Arab neighbors, Syria and Lebanon, has become a source of friction in the region. Lebanese militants, fighting on the opposing sides in Syria's civil war have been moving troops and weapons freely over the 365-kilometer (226-mile) invisible frontier. Syrians fleeing their country's bloodshed keep pouring into Lebanon, with most Syrian crossing into Lebanon without being checked by officials at half a dozen border posts. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Mideast conflicts meet in tiny patch of Lebanon

Barbara Surk · April 26, 2014 6:01 am

U.S. President Barack Obama answers a reporter's question during a joint news conference with South Korean President Park Geun-hye at the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 25, 2014. Obama says Japan's use of South Korean "comfort women" during World War II was a terrible and egregious violation of human rights. Obama is addressing historical tensions between U.S. allies Japan and South Korea during a news conference in Seoul with South Korean President Park Geun-hye. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

National Security

Obama: Lack of will in Israel, Palestinian talks

Julie Pace · April 25, 2014 11:39 am

In Thursday April 17, 2014 photo, Syrian refugee Abu Mohammed sits in a shop he has set up to sell women's accessories to boost his non-existent income at Zaatari refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Jordan. It was hard enough for Abu Mohammed to flee his hometown of Daraa in southern Syria because of the raging fighting. He now has to survive on basics in this sprawling refugee camp in Jordan, and pay rent to a fellow Syrian strongman for the use of a small plot of land to set up a shop.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

AP PHOTOS: Security woes plague Syrian refugees

Khalil Hamra · April 25, 2014 11:10 am

FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2013 file photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Nine months of U.S.-driven diplomacy have left Israelis and Palestinians less hopeful than ever about a comprehensive peace agreement to end their century of conflict. Although a formula may yet be found to somehow prolong the talks past an end-of-April deadline, they are on the brink of collapse and the search is already on for new ideas. (AP Photo/Mohamad Torokman, Pool, File)

Analysis: Beyond Kerry, seeking new Mideast ideas

Dan Perry · April 25, 2014 9:57 am

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Energy and Environment

Middle East waters hold energy gold

Tim Mak · April 25, 2014 4:00 am

Secretary of State John Kerry addresses a gathering of the Export-Import Bank at the Omni-Shoreham Hotel in Washington, Thursday, April 24, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US unwilling to give up Mideast peace process yet

Lara Jakes · April 24, 2014 10:22 pm

Report: Iran to cut portion of gasoline subsidies

Nasser Karimi · April 24, 2014 8:57 pm

UN chief: Syria war threatens Lebanon’s stability

Cara Anna · April 24, 2014 7:49 pm