Tag: Middle East

Jordanian lawmakers attend the second day of a heated debate on the U.S. push for a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians, under the domed parliament chamber in the capital, Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. The kingdom is already home to the largest Palestinian population outside the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Jordanian lawmakers and others fear the Palestinians will be coerced into an accord that gives up land and leads to a new influx of refugees into Jordan. (AP Photo)

Jordanians worry about fallout from Mideast peace

Jamal Halaby · February 5, 2014 3:46 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, residents of the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp carry their belongings as they flee the camp, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Over the past six days the U.N. continued to distribute food parcels in the Palestinian camp where activists say at least 85 people have died as a result of lack of food and medicine since mid-2013. (AP Photo/SANA)

National Security

U.S. officials weigh strategy shift in Syria

Susan Crabtree · February 5, 2014 5:00 am

Destructive Obsession

Aryeh Tepper · February 3, 2014 7:37 pm

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is warning Congress that new unilateral sanctions against Iran could upend sensitive international negotiations over its nuclear development, imploring lawmakers to work with the Obama administration in presenting a unified front to Tehran. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Hillary Clinton warns new Iran sanctions could upend talks

Donna Cassata · February 3, 2014 5:00 am

In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians inspect the rubble of destroyed buildings following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 . Activists said the latest Syrian government shelling has killed and wounded several people in a rebel-held area of the northern city of Aleppo. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Activists: Syrian forces launch new Aleppo strikes

Diaa Hadid · February 1, 2014 9:05 pm

UN official dismayed at failure of Syria aid deal

Alexandra Olson · January 31, 2014 9:27 pm

Beltway Confidential

Saudis snub US congressional delegation

Joel Gehrke · January 31, 2014 12:00 am

In this Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 picture, Syrian journalists argue with each other at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The bitterness and rancor stirred by Syria's civil war were on full display this week, both inside and outside the sealed room where rival delegations were seeking a way to end the conflict. In the hallways of the U.N.'s European headquarters and on the manicured lawns outside, tempers flared between supporters and opponents of President Bashar Assad.(AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Bitterness of Syrian war on display at talks

Zeina Karam · January 29, 2014 8:02 pm

Morocco, Algeria trade accusations over Syrians

Paul Schemm · January 28, 2014 8:37 pm

Palestinians say a gradual Israeli withdrawal OK

Washington Examiner · January 28, 2014 6:31 pm

President Barack Obama works at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, ahead of Tuesday night's State of the Union speech. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama should reassure public about Iran deal, experts say

Susan Crabtree · January 28, 2014 5:00 am

National Security

Key al-Qaida militant reportedly killed in Syria

Bassem Mroue · January 27, 2014 7:56 pm