Tag: Middle East

A Palestinian woman cries in her home after a raid by Israeli troops as the army continues feverish searches for three missing Israeli teens, in Salim village near the West Bank city of Nablus, Sunday, June 22,2014. Israel's military says troops have shot dead one Palestinian, and a Palestinian medical official says another was killed, as the army searches for three missing teens and looks to dismantle the Islamic militant group Hamas. Over the past week, thousands of Israeli troops have searched hundreds of locations in the West Bank and arrested more than 300 Palestinians, many from Hamas. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

2 Palestinians killed as Israel raids West Bank

Mohammed Daraghmeh · June 22, 2014 10:35 am

Volunteers of the newly formed "Peace Brigades" participate in a parade in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 21, 2014. The armed group was formed after radical Shiite cleric Muqtatda al-Sadr called to form brigades to protect Shiite holy shrines against possible attacks by Sunni militants. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Sunni fighters expand offensive in western Iraq

HAMZA HENDAWISAMEER N. YACOUB · June 21, 2014 10:35 pm

FILE - In this May 1, 2006, file photo, then-Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., left, speaks with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, after he gave a speech proposing that Iraq be divided into three separate regions during the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia conference in Philadelphia. As Iraq edges toward chaos, Vice President Joe Biden is having a quiet I-told-you-so moment. As a senator in 2006, Biden proposed that Iraq be divided into three semi-independent regions for Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. And he said that his plan would allow U.S. troops to be out by early 2008. Otherwise, he warned, Iraq could fall into sectarian conflict that could destabilize the region. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Iraq crisis offers hint of vindication for Biden

Josh Lederman · June 21, 2014 5:08 pm

The Return of the Bad Old Days

Irwin M. Stelzer · June 21, 2014 3:00 am

Lebanese police intelligence gather outside a hotel after security forces raided there in Beirut's Hamra district, Lebanon, Friday, June 20, 2014. Security forces raided the hotel over suspected "terrorist cells" inside it, a police official said. In eastern Lebanon, a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle Friday near a police checkpoint, killing a few people amid heightened concerns of renewed violence, the country's state-run news agency and security officials said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Bombing, arrests spark fear in Lebanon

Zeina Karam · June 20, 2014 8:55 pm

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Beltway Confidential

Naming the Islamist militants in the news: ISIS or ISIL?

Charles Hoskinson · June 20, 2014 7:51 pm

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Has American fracking doomed Iraq?

Arthur Herman · June 20, 2014 6:47 pm

Israeli soldiers walk downstairs in a building as they search for three missing Israeli teens in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, June 20, 2014. The three Jewish seminary students disappeared June 12 while hitchhiking in the West Bank. Israel has blamed the Islamic militant Hamas group for the apparent abduction, but has offered no proof. Hamas has praised the abduction of the teenagers but has not claimed responsibility for it. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli troops kill Palestinian in arrest raids

Mohammed Daraghmeh · June 20, 2014 6:11 pm

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrives for the start of closed-door nuclear talks with European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, June 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

National Security

Envoys: Some progress at Iran-6-power nuke talks

George Jahn · June 20, 2014 3:22 pm

Israeli Medical Association president Dr. Leonid Eidelman speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his office in Ramat Gan, Israel, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Dr. Eidelman says in an interview that doctors "will absolutely refuse to cooperate'' if parliament passes legislation permitting the force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strike. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

AP Interview: Israel doctors against force-feeding

Karin Laub · June 20, 2014 1:40 pm

FILE - This undated file film image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Avraham Shalom in a scene from the Oscar-nominated documentary, "The Gatekeepers," about former heads of the Israeli security agency, Shin Bet. Shalom, a former director of Israel's Shin Bet security service who led the agency through some of its greatest achievements before resigning in disgrace, died in Tel Aviv on Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics, File)

Former Israeli security director dies at 86

Yousur Alhlou · June 19, 2014 7:46 pm

Israeli soldiers search for three missing Israeli teens believed to have been abducted in the West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Since the operation to locate the teens began a week ago, about 280 Palestinians have been arrested, the military said, including 200 members of Hamas. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

Palestinians, Israeli troops clash in teens search

Ian Deitch · June 19, 2014 5:25 pm