Tag: Middle East

This image released by Egypt's official Middle East News Agency (MENA) shows President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi as he is saluted by a female cadet at a military graduation in Cairo, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. President el-Sissi said Tuesday he will not interfere in court rulings, rebuffing calls from the United States and other Western governments that he pardon or commute the sentences of three Al-Jazeera journalists handed heavy prison terms a day earlier.(AP Photo/MENA)

Egypt president refuses pardon for journalists

SARAH EL DEEB · June 24, 2014 4:28 pm

In this June 23, 2014, photo, mourners chant slogans against the al-Qaida breakaway group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after they bury 15 bodies in the village of Taza Khormato near the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk, Iraq. U.S. teams of special forces going into Iraq after a three-year gap will face an aggressive insurgency, a splintering military and a precarious political situation as they help Iraqi security forces improve their ability to battle Sunni militants. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)

UN: At least 1,075 killed in Iraq in June

John Heilprin · June 24, 2014 3:11 pm

OPEC: Iraq violence not causing oil output drop

Washington Examiner · June 24, 2014 11:57 am

Reporter’s father says stunned by Egypt decision

Rod McGuirk · June 24, 2014 1:39 am

Kerry hands dire warning to Iraqis over future

National Security

Kerry hands dire warning to Iraqis over future

Washington Examiner · June 23, 2014 10:48 pm

Outcry after Egypt sentences 3 reporters to prison

Sarah El, Deebmaggie Michael · June 23, 2014 9:47 pm

Volunteers in the newly formed "Peace Brigades" raise their weapons and chant slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant during a parade in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)

National Security

White House: Iraq is providing legal ‘protections’ for 300 U.S. advisers

Susan Crabtree · June 23, 2014 9:41 pm

In this photo taken on Tuesday, May 13, 2014, a sticker reading "Toxic" on containers carrying Syria's dangerous chemical weapons, on the Danish cargo ship, Ark Futura, transporting the chemical weapons out of the strife-torn country, in Cyprus coastal waters. Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons director general Ahmet Uzumcu said Monday, June 23, 2014, the final shipment of stockpiled chemical weapons has been loaded onto Danish and Norwegian ships for transportation out of Syria.(AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

National Security

Syria hands over last of declared chemical weapons

TOBY STERLINGMENELAOS HADJICOSTIS · June 23, 2014 8:43 pm

Iraq upheaval threatens oil development plans

Sinan Salaheddin · June 23, 2014 6:12 pm

Israeli soldiers load shells in their tank following the first death on the Israeli side of the Golan since the Syrian civil war erupted more than three years ago, near the Israeli village of Alonei Habashan, in the area of Tel Hazeka, close to the Quneitra border crossing in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Sunday, June 22, 2014. A civilian vehicle in the Golan Heights was targeted by forces in neighboring Syria on Sunday in an attack that killed a 15-year-old boy and prompted Israeli tanks to retaliate by firing on Syrian government targets, the Israeli military said. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Syria: 4 killed, 9 wounded in Israeli airstrikes

RYAN LUCASJOSEF FEDERMAN · June 23, 2014 5:36 pm

White House applauds removal of chemical weapons

White House applauds removal of chemical weapons

Washington Examiner · June 23, 2014 5:11 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, June 20, 2014, Lebanese police intelligence gather outside a hotel in Hamra street in Beirut, Lebanon. An al-Qaida breakaway group's seizure of territory in Iraq and Syria has sent tremors across the Middle East, jolting neighboring countries into action over fears that the Islamic militants may set their sights on them next. In Lebanon heavily armed police busted a suspected sleeper cell allegedly linked to the group, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, in raids on two hotels in central Beirut. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Militant group’s surge in Iraq fans regional fears

RYAN LUCASOMAR AKOUR · June 23, 2014 4:11 pm