Tag: Middle East

ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - This Friday, April 18, 2014 photo shows the Jewish settlement of Bat Ayin, north of the West Bank city of Hebron. Israeli settlers in the West Bank fall mostly under civilian rule, Palestinians are subject to Israeli military law. Israeli and Palestinian youths face inequities at every stage in the path of justice, from arrests to convictions and sentencing, according to police statistics obtained by The Associated Press through multiple requests under Israel's freedom of information law. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

A look at the dual justice system in the West Bank

Washington Examiner · April 21, 2014 11:57 am

In this Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013 photo, a Palestinian boy walks around his home in the village of Beit Ummar near the West Bank city of Hebron. At the age of 15, the boy was held for nine months in an Israeli military jail for throwing rocks at passing Israeli cars near his village in the West Bank. An Israeli 15-year-old boy was arrested for a similar crime at the same time but faced a different justice system. The Israeli boy refused to allow his photo to be taken. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

In West Bank, teen offenders face different fates

DANIEL ESTRINJOSEF FEDERMAN · April 21, 2014 11:55 am

People gather near a destroyed car that was carrying militants in the Sawmaa area of al-Bayda province, Yemen, Saturday, April 19, 2014. A Yemeni military official says an American drone strike has killed nine suspected al-Qaida militants and inadvertently killed and wounded some civilians. (AP Photo/Nasir al-Sanna'a)

Drone in Yemen kills at least 9 al-Qaida members

Ahmed AlHaj · April 19, 2014 7:41 pm

Egypt’s censorship board head resigns in film spat

Maggie Hyde · April 19, 2014 7:37 pm

Friends of Mustafa Mounir, 19, chant slogans against the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), while carrying his flag-draped coffin during his funeral procession in Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 18, 2014. Mustafa Mounir was killed in a car bomb attack in Baghdad on Thursday, his family said. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)

Bombs targeting soldiers, shoppers kill 16 in Iraq

Qassim AbdulZahra · April 19, 2014 6:41 pm

Islamic militants claim this week’s Nigeria blast

Michelle Faul · April 19, 2014 6:25 pm

President Obama got some chilling news from a USA Today/Pew poll this week

Zogby Report Card: Russia’s winning, and Obama has few options

Paul Bedard · April 19, 2014 4:00 am

This Monday, April 14, 2014 photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian government soldiers gathering outside a damaged hotel that Syrian rebels had been using, in Maaloula village, northeast of the capital Damascus, Syria. Syrian government troops seized two villages, one of them an ancient Christian hamlet, north of Damascus on Monday, as part of the military's relentless offensive along the rugged frontier with Lebanon, state media and activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)

National Security

Syrian state TV: 14 killed in car bombing in Homs

MAAMOUN YOUSSEFZEINA KARAM · April 18, 2014 5:41 pm

In Egypt, a corruption watchdog hit by backlash

maggie-michaelsarah, El Deeb · April 18, 2014 5:09 pm

Vandals damage mosque in northern Israel

Washington Examiner · April 18, 2014 9:42 am

UN envoy urges Syria’s warring sides to save Homs

Washington Examiner · April 18, 2014 1:32 am

Gulf Arab states strike new deal to heal rifts

Washington Examiner · April 17, 2014 10:38 pm