Middle East

French President Francois Hollande is seen after his arrival at Baghdad Airport in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Hollande expressed his solidarity with Iraq on a visit to Baghdad on Friday, as his country prepares for possible airstrikes with a U.S.-led coalition against extremists who have seized territory around the region. (AP Photo/Thaier Al-Sudani, Pool)

National Security

Paris wants Iran to help crush Islamic radicals

September 12, 2014 5:23 pm

News

Evidence growing that Hamas used residential areas

HAMZA HENDAWIJOSEF FEDERMAN -

September 12, 2014 5:13 am

National Security

GRAPHIC: How does Obama’s 2014 coalition stack up to earlier coalitions?

Washington Examiner -

September 12, 2014 1:30 am

This image made from video posted on a militant social media account on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014 shows U.N. peacekeepers from Fiji held captive by militants from the Nusra Front in Syria. The 45 Fijian peacekeepers held captive by an al-Qaida-linked Syrian rebel group are alive and well and will be released soon, one of the hostages said in a video released Thursday by the militants. Fighters from the Nusra Front captured the Fijian troops late last month in the Golan Heights, where a 1,200-strong U.N. force monitors the buffer zone between Syria and Israel. Arabic reads,

News

UN: 45 Fijian peacekeepers freed in Syria

EDITH M. LEDERERRYAN LUCAS -

September 11, 2014 10:01 pm

At an event hosted by In Defense of Christians, a group dedicated to the protection of Christian communities in the Middle East, Texas Senator Ted Cruz was booed off the stage during a speech in which he praised Israel.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Beltway Confidential

Cruz hecklers slammed as ‘useful idiots’ by pro-Israel Christian group

Becket Adams -

September 11, 2014 8:49 pm

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, to respond to the proposals from President Obama about confronting the new wave of terrorism. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Foreign Policy

House inches toward approving ISIS request

David M. Drucker -

September 11, 2014 7:56 pm

For a devastating assessment of President Obama's Sept. 10 speech announcing a new policy of military engagement in the Middle East, read Walter Russell Mead's piece in his Via Meadia blog entitled, bleakly,

Beltway Confidential

A devastating verdict on Obama speech: ‘A president surrenders’

Michael Barone -

September 11, 2014 7:09 pm

Energy and Environment

Poll: Most Americans fear oil exports would raise gas prices

Zack Colman -

September 11, 2014 5:51 pm

Politics

Obama’s coalition may not hold against Islamic State

Charles Hoskinson -

September 11, 2014 9:00 am

FILE - In this undated file image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, fighters from the Islamic State group sit on a tank during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. The Islamic State group is often described as the most fearsome jihadi outfit of all: a global menace outweighing al-Qaida, with armies trembling before its advance. But while the group has been successful at seizing parts of Iraq and Syria, it is no unstoppable juggernaut. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center, File)

Foreign Policy

Islamic State group not an unstoppable juggernaut

ZEINA KARAMVIVIAN SALAMA -

September 10, 2014 10:52 pm

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