Tag: Middle East

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013 file photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center, receives released Palestinian prisoners during a welcome ceremony after their arrival at the Palestinian headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, on Tuesday, April 8, 2014, warned the Palestinians that a planned prisoner release will not happen as long as they pursue what he called a "provocative" bid to join U.N. agencies. The remarks came as the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have become embroiled in their worst crisis since U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry persuaded the two sides last summer to resume talks for nine months. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

National Security

Jewish settlers clash with Israeli police

Tia Goldenberg · April 8, 2014 4:24 pm

European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, left, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamad Javad Zarif, right, wait for the start of closed-door nuclear talks in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Iran and six world powers are hoping to narrow differences at a new round of nuclear talks, less than three months before an informal July deadline for a deal. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

National Security

Iran, 6 powers seek to narrow nuclear differences

George Jahn · April 8, 2014 10:11 am

A masked Palestinian uses a slingshot to hurl stones toward Israeli soldiers during a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, April 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinians ready to widen global recognition bid

Karin Laub · April 7, 2014 6:14 pm

FILE - In this August 2, 2013, file photo, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a rally to mark Jerusalem day, or Al-Quds day, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. The government of Syrian President Bashar Assad is no longer in danger of falling, Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group, said in interview with Lebanon's daily As-Safir newspaper published Sunday, April 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Clashes in south Lebanon Palestinian camp kill 7

Zeina Karam · April 7, 2014 12:13 pm

Aluminum smelters in Dubai, Abu Dhabi join forces

Washington Examiner · April 7, 2014 11:13 am

In this Sunday, April 6, 2014 photo, a Palestinian woman who will become a part of the elite Presidential Guard stands during a training, in Jericho, West Bank. Twenty-five Palestinian women are set to become the first female members of the Presidential Guards, a Palestinian elite force of 2,600 men. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

First women joining Palestinian commando unit

KARIN LAUBMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · April 7, 2014 6:16 am

A Bahraini protester raises a sign against the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix during a protest in Saar, Bahrain, Friday, April 4, 2014. Tens of thousands of Bahraini anti-government protesters carrying signs and images of political prisoners waved national flags and signs against the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix, which is being held Sunday in the Gulf island kingdom. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

Bahrain: Bomb in car causes fire in capital

Washington Examiner · April 7, 2014 5:33 am

FILE - In this August 2, 2013, file photo, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a rally to mark Jerusalem day, or Al-Quds day, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. The government of Syrian President Bashar Assad is no longer in danger of falling, Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group, said in interview with Lebanon's daily As-Safir newspaper published Sunday, April 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

National Security

Hezbollah: Danger to Syria’s president eliminated

Washington Examiner · April 6, 2014 7:36 pm

In this Thursday, April 3, 2014 photo, Palestinian Esmat Mansour, a former prisoner who was released after 20 years in Israeli jail, teaches Hebrew to students at a school in the village of Taybeh, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Mansour was 16 when, in October 1993, he helped three older teens stab to death an Israeli man. Mansour said the time in Israeli prison changed him. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Ex-Palestinian prisoner teaches Hebrew, tolerance

KARIN LAUBMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · April 6, 2014 7:26 pm

FILE - This Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 file photo, shows a general view of Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border in Jordan. The United Nations says it is alarmed at "violent nature" of a demonstration in a massive Syrian refugee camp in Jordan that killed one person and wounded dozens. The U.N. refugee agency says a "heated demonstration" in Jordan's sprawling Zaatari refugee camp Saturday turned to "a violent one" after hundreds, possibly thousands of refugees started throwing rocks at a police post. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

UN alarmed by deadly Syrian protest in Jordan camp

Omar Akour · April 6, 2014 3:59 pm

An assistant shows the mock 'reset' button that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handed over to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Fabrice Coffrini, Pool)

Five of the Obama Doctrine’s stealth foreign policy failures

James Jay Carafano · April 6, 2014 4:00 am

Kerry: It’s ‘reality check’ time for Mideast talks

LARA JAKESMATTHEW LEE · April 5, 2014 12:37 am