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Topic: Middle East

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March 14, 2013
1:36 am

Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi Di Sant'Agata in 2011. (photo credit: AP)

‘Nuclear Iran would permanently change region’

Italian foreign minister warns of potential Middle East arms race, praises Israel, at Herzliya Conference

By Ilan Ben Zion

March 6, 2013
11:38 pm

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at a news conference at Ankara Palace in Ankara, Turkey, March 1, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

A diplomatic natural, Kerry hits ground running

New secretary of state faces daunting challenge in the aftermath of the Arab Spring

By Matthew Lee

February 13, 2013
1:43 am

NASA: Alarming water loss in Middle East

Poor management, increased demands and drought costs region 144 cubic kilometers of stored freshwater

February 7, 2013
8:09 am

Secretary of State John Kerry, left, with his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry, center, holding the Bible, is ceremonially sworn-in as the 68th Secretary of State by Vice President Joe Biden, right, at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 6 (photo credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Kerry: US cannot retreat from world stage

‘I am proud to take on this job because I want to work for peace,’ says new secretary of state at swearing-in ceremony; Biden: We aim to complete Israeli-Palestinian deal

February 6, 2013
9:16 pm

The late Col. Muammar Gaddafi (photo credit: Jesse B. Awalt/Wikimedia Commons)

Deposing despots doesn’t eliminate corruption, group says

Secretive security agencies said to prevent transparency in post-revolutionary Middle East states

January 29, 2013
5:53 pm

Israel Air Force chief Amir Eshel (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash 90)

Israel fighting ‘a campaign between wars,’ says IAF chief

Amir Eshel says the military is working hard to prevent conflict from erupting into a full-blown war on Israel’s nothern border

By Mitch Ginsburg

January 26, 2013
12:16 pm

Ali Akbar Velayati, advisor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei (photo credit: screen capture/YouTube)

Iranian official: Attack on Syria is attack on us

Damascus plays major role in ‘resistance front’ of anti-Israel states and militant groups, says adviser to Supreme Leader Khamenei

January 25, 2013
8:38 pm

King Abdullah II of Jordan speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Friday.

Jordan: No time for Israel to play the waiting game

In Davos, King Abdullah warns that Obama’s second term is an ephemeral window of opportunity to implement the two-state solution

By Yifa Yaakov

December 11, 2012
10:23 am

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pauses during a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, December 5. (photo credit: AP/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)

Clinton cancels Mideast trip due to stomach virus

William Burns to take secretary’s place on visits to Morocco, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates

December 8, 2012
10:34 pm

Deputy Secretary of States William Burns, left, and Sen. John McCain, right, answer questions during the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) conference in Manama, Bahrain, Saturday. The IISS Manama conference will discuss the security situation in the Syrian region among other topics. (photo credit: AP/Hasan Jamali)

At Bahrain summit, US says it won’t pivot away from the Middle East

As Arab states call for stronger action against Syria, American delegates stress that political ties and energy needs bind Washington to a region full of ‘threat and promise’

By Reem Khalifa

December 1, 2012
5:44 am

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Liberman calls Hamas ‘more effective’ than Abbas, defends Israel’s new plans for West Bank building

FM says Jerusalem is ‘ready to move forward’ toward a two-state solution but doesn’t know if Hamas or Fatah represents the Palestinians

By Michal Shmulovich

November 24, 2012
4:53 pm

The Israeli nuclear reactor at Nahal Sorek (Photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/ Flash 90)

Regional conflicts put nuke-free Mideast conference on hold, US says

Israel declines participation due to Arab countries’ stance on disarmament

November 10, 2012
6:14 am

A Libyan man investigates the inside of the US Consulate, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

US timeline shows lagged military response to Libya consulate attack

First commando unit arrived in Benghazi some 15 hours after the raid, Defense Department docs show

November 9, 2012
11:38 pm

Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore. (photo credit: CC-BY-SA infomatique/Flickr)

Ireland says no chance of EU ban on settlement goods, unfortunately

Dublin would support such a move if there were any prospect for reaching an agreement, says FM Gilmore

October 26, 2012
11:34 pm

Wearing vests painted with the slogan 'Anti-harassment', a group of volunteers confront a group of teasing young boys near Cairo's Tahrir Square. Instead of taking to the streets with air horns and toy guns and hissing at women like many of their peers, the small group of young Egyptian men tried to secure the streets of downtown Cairo during Eid al-adha, one of Islam’s most important holidays, a time when fears of sexual harassment spike. Their effort largely failed, but it shows the extent of the sexual harassment scourge facing Egypt and the government’s failures to address it. (AP Photo/ Maggie Fick)

Egyptian activists try to stop holiday sexual harassment

Young men patrol the streets of Cairo to prevent Eid al-Adha crowds from groping women

By Maggie Fick

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