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Topic: Middle East

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October 18, 2012
10:40 pm

Former US president Jimmy Carter (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Ex-president Carter to visit Israel next week

Former Norwegian PM Gro Harlem Brundtland and ex-president of Ireland Mary Robinson to join Jimmy Carter

October 6, 2012
11:44 pm

This courtroom sketch shows Mark Basseley Youssef (Nakoula Basseley Nakoula), right, appearing to give testimony at a hearing on Thursday (photo credit: AP/Mona Shafer Edwards)

Hearing set for man behind anti-Muslim film

Mark Basseley Youseff, convicted in 2010 of bank fraud, determined to be a flight risk and remanded into custody without bond

October 6, 2012
9:57 pm

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta (photo credit: Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Panetta: Syria clash with Turkey may escalate

US defense secretary says Washington is using its diplomatic channels to relay worries about the fighting

By Lolita C. Baldor

October 6, 2012
5:00 pm

Mediterranean summit condemns ‘heinous’ Syria violence

Leaders of 10 European and northern African nations slam Assad regime’s crimes

October 1, 2012
9:55 pm

The US Embassy building in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Pro-US rally to take place in Tel Aviv

Student movement Im Tirzu seeks to support Americans in wake of recent attacks on Middle East embassies

By Yifa Yaakov

October 1, 2012
8:55 pm

The medieval Souk Al Zirb in Aleppo (photo credit: Anas A/Wikimedia Commons)

Siege on Aleppo alarms antiquities experts

A bomb crater now marks the entrance to the historic city’s medieval Citadel, raising fears that Syria will soon cease to be a ‘museum of Islamic history’

By Aya Batrawy

September 30, 2012
7:45 am

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney waves to supporters before making a speech in Miami on Wednesday (photo credit: AP/J. Pat Carter)

Romney rips Obama over Middle East

Republican candidate says president ‘does not grasp the dimensions of what’s occurring’ in region, The Washington Times reports

September 25, 2012
4:03 pm

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak)

Romney: Ahmadinejad is ‘voice of unspeakable evil’

Republican presidential candidate makes economic freedom the pillar of his foreign policy

By Sam Ser

September 15, 2012
2:36 am

Filmmaker behind ‘Innocence of Muslims’ gets lawyer

Attorney says Nakoula Basseley Nakoula’s young children, ‘like prisoners,’ are ‘afraid to leave’ their California home

September 15, 2012
2:18 am

US President Barack Obama (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

‘There may come a time’ when US uses military force against Iran, Obama tells rabbis

In pre-Rosh Hashanah conference call, president again rules out ‘red lines,’ says ‘no leader ties his own hands’

September 13, 2012
6:41 pm

Binyamin Netanyahu attributes Israeli stability to the IDF (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu: In a stormy Middle East, Israel remains an oasis of calm

At Rosh Hashanah toast, prime minister says IDF can be relied upon in increasingly explosive region

By Alon Diamant-Cohen and Yifa Yaakov

September 10, 2012
12:29 pm

Pope Benedict says Lebanon trip will promote peace in region

‘Even though the search for solutions to the various problems affecting the region seems difficult, we cannot resign ourselves to the violence’

August 27, 2012
5:54 pm

Military Intelligence Director Major General Aviv Kochavi in 2011 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In ‘increasingly Islamist’ region, Israel may be headed for war, IDF intelligence chief warns

Annual report says Middle East ‘has been dealing with a series of crises — regional and internal — that increases the volatility of all players’

By Times of Israel staff

August 18, 2012
11:19 pm

Is Shiite leader Hassan Nasrallah's influence waning in the new Middle East order? (photo credit: AP)

Syria war tipping Middle East balance toward Sunnis

Not long ago, Arabs everywhere listened when Nasrallah spoke; now, his speeches don’t necessarily make front pages even in Lebanon

By Hamza Hendawi

August 16, 2012
3:06 pm

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009. (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi, File)

What, me worry?

Food prices, gas prices, Iran, Egypt: There’s no shortage of concerns in today’s news

By Ilan Ben Zion

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