Middle East

Shiite tribal fighters carry a poster of Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, as they raise their weapons chanting slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city. (AP/Nabil Al-Jurani)

Columnists

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s media foray

June 18, 2014 2:41 pm

In this Sunday, June 15, 2014 photo, laborers descend in a lift as they start their midday break at the Dragon Mart Phase 2 construction site in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A midday work ban goes into effect across the United Arab Emirates for construction workers and outdoor laborers, on Sunday, to protect them from the risks of direct sunlight and extremely high temperatures during the hottest summer months. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Business

Midday work ban puts focus on Gulf labor rights

Aya Batrawy -

June 18, 2014 2:05 pm

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.,speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 17, 2014, after a Democratic caucus. President Barack Obama will meet with Congressional leaders at the White House on Wednesday to discuss the turmoil in Iraq. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

US focus shifts away from airstrikes in Iraq

Julie Pace -

June 18, 2014 3:50 am

Iraqi men flash victory signs as they leave the main recruiting center to join the Iraqi army in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 17, 2014, after authorities urged Iraqis to help battle insurgents. Hundreds of young Iraqi men gripped by religious and nationalistic fervor streamed into volunteer centers across Baghdad Saturday, answering a call by the country's top Shiite cleric to join the fight against Sunni militants advancing in the north. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

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Signs of reprisal killings emerge in Iraq

Hamza Hendawi -

June 17, 2014 10:51 pm

Israeli soldiers search for three missing teenagers during a military operation in the West Bank city of Hebron, Tuesday, June 17, 2014. Israeli security forces searched the West Bank, looking for three missing teenagers, including an American, who they fear have been abducted by Palestinian militants. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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Israel leader seeks world pressure on Palestinians

KARIN LAUBJOSEF FEDERMAN -

June 17, 2014 6:33 pm

Iraqi federal policemen watch as Shiite tribal fighters deploy with their weapons in the northwest Baghdad's Shula neighborhood, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

News

UN panel: Syria, Iraq edging into regional war

John Heilprin -

June 17, 2014 2:38 pm

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

National Security

Huge US-Iran gap on nukes as target date nears

George Jahn -

June 17, 2014 1:54 pm

Healthcare

WHO warns of Mideast virus threat to pilgrims

Washington Examiner -

June 17, 2014 1:11 pm

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the audience during the celebration of the 50. anniversary of the establishment of the UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, June 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone,Salvatore Di Nolfi)

News

UN chief warns of massive sectarian Iraq violence

John Heilprin -

June 17, 2014 11:29 am

Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the Our Ocean conference, Monday, June 16, 2014, at the State Department in Washington. The Obama administration is willing to talk with Iran over deteriorating security conditions in Iraq and is not ruling out potential U.S.-Iranian military cooperation in stemming the advance of Sunni extremists, Kerry said Monday. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

National Security

More US troops to Iraq; special forces considered

JULIE PACELARA JAKES -

June 17, 2014 1:08 am

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Tag: Middle East

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s media foray

Midday work ban puts focus on Gulf labor rights

US focus shifts away from airstrikes in Iraq

Signs of reprisal killings emerge in Iraq

Israel leader seeks world pressure on Palestinians

UN panel: Syria, Iraq edging into regional war

Huge US-Iran gap on nukes as target date nears

WHO warns of Mideast virus threat to pilgrims

UN chief warns of massive sectarian Iraq violence

More US troops to Iraq; special forces considered

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