Tag: Middle East

Israeli soldiers of the Golani brigade adjust their weapons during training near the border with Syria in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Hezbollah says Israel carried out an airstrike targeting its positions in Lebanon near the border with Syria earlier this week, claiming it caused damage but no casualties. The Wednesday statement was the group's first acknowledgement of the reported Monday night airstrikes. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel takes risk with airstrike on Hezbollah

Josef Federman · February 26, 2014 11:00 pm

23-year-old detained by police in Bahrain dies

Reem Khalifa · February 26, 2014 2:43 pm

Sunni anger in Lebanon against army grows

Diaa Hadid · February 25, 2014 2:57 pm

In this Dec. 8, 2013 file photo, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks with U.S. troops at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan. The latest Pentagon budget proposal, outlined Monday by Hagel, proposed cutting the Army to 450,000 soldiers or less -- the lowest level since 1940 -- as fighting in Afghanistan winds down. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, Pool-File)

Examiner Editorial: Now is not the time to cut the world’s finest army again

Washington Examiner · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

UN proposal would sanction peace spoilers in Yemen

Edith Lederer · February 24, 2014 11:49 pm

Lebanese army and citizens gather at the site of an explosion, in the predominately Shiite town of Hermel, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from the Syrian border in northeast Lebanon, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014. A suicide attacker blew himself up at an army checkpoint after troops tried to search his car Saturday, killing and wounding a number of people including soldiers in the latest blast linked to Syria's civil war, a senior military official and the state news agency said. (AP Photo)

Al-Qaida group claims Lebanese army suicide attack

Diaa Hadid · February 23, 2014 11:49 am

Anti-government protesters watch the crowd gathering in central Kiev, Ukraine, on Friday. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Ukraine boils over as US focuses on Middle East

Susan Crabtree · February 21, 2014 5:00 am

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas about ongoing peace talks with Israel on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in Paris. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Paris for talks aimed at reaching agreement on a framework for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. Kerry met Wednesday with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, with the aim of working to define the framework for negotiators as they seek to forge a comprehensive settlement to the conflict. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, Pool)

Kerry ‘determined’ to get Middle East peace deal

Aron Heller · February 20, 2014 9:06 pm

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, looks on as Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh makes a statement about the ongoing humanitarian crisis and violence in Syria on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in Paris. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Kerry, in Paris, continues Mideast peace push

Matthew Lee · February 20, 2014 4:10 pm

The Dividing Line Between the Good and the Bad

Lee Smith · February 19, 2014 2:04 pm

Syrian refugee, Amal Fawwaz, 11, right, raises her hand to answer her teacher's question in a makeshift tent class at an unofficial refugee camp on the outskirts of Amman, Jordan. (AP/Mohammad Hannon)

National Security

As Syria threat expands, Obama mulls options

Bradley Klapper · February 19, 2014 8:26 am

In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech, in Tehran, Iran, Monday. (AP/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)

National Security

Huge hurdles in path of final Iran nuke deal

George Jahn · February 18, 2014 5:00 am