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April 23, 2013
7:41 pm

This composite photograph shows Tsarnaev Tamerlan, 26 (left), and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing (photo credit: AP/The Lowell Sun & Robin Young)

‘Boston suspects were lone wolves motivated by radical Islam’

US officials say Tamerlan Tsarnaev was avid reader of jihadist sites, extremist propaganda; brother grilled in hospital room

April 6, 2013
5:52 am

US President Barack Obama, left, and Jordan's King Abdullah II shake hands following a joint press conference at the King's Palace in Amman, Jordan, on Friday, March 23 (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Eyeing Syria, White House woos regional rulers

Obama administration increasingly worried about what may happen if the regime falls before opposition groups can agree on a governing structure

By Josh Lederman and Lara Jakes

April 2, 2013
9:43 am

Diplomats participate in the fourth round of high-level talks with an Iranian delegation, right, aimed at stopping the Islamic regime's nuclear program from making atomic weapons in Almaty, Kazakhstan in February. (photo credit: AP/ Shamil Zhumatov, Pool)

US restraint in Syria could aid Iran nuclear talks

Tehran is unlikely to bend to Washington’s will while simultaneously fighting American-supplied rebels in Syria

By Lara Jakes

March 23, 2013
6:11 pm

A portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sits on a table before a press conference by Buthaina Shaaban, special envoy of the President, in New Delhi, India, Friday, March 8, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Altaf Qadri)

Momentum weakened for Syrian president’s ouster

Beyond threats of military intervention, there is growing consensus that little can be done to put new pressure on Assad

By Lara Jakes

March 10, 2013
2:21 pm

Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and spokesman, captured by the United States on Thursday, March 7, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Al-Jazeera)

Bin Laden son-in-law could yield info on al-Qaeda

US experts say Sulaiman Abu Ghaith may provide useful details about organization’s inner workings, less about current plots

By Lara Jakes and Tom Hays

February 26, 2013
9:06 pm

A satellite image of Iran's Fordo uranium enrichment facility (photo credit: AP/DigitalGlobe)

Small steps forward sought in Iran nuclear talks

West offers to ease sanctions in exchange for limiting uranium enrichment

By Lara Jakes and PETER LEONARD

February 25, 2013
10:18 pm

Chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, left, shakes hands with Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbayev prior to talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Monday. Iran and six world powers, five permanent UN Security council members and Germany, are set to hold talks in Kazakhstan this week on Tehran's controversial nuclear program. (AP Photo/Pavel Mikheyev)

World offers Iran sanctions relief to curb nukes

Negotiators set low expectations for latest round of negotiations, slated to begin in Kazakhstan Tuesday

By Lara Jakes

January 28, 2013
8:48 am

Islamist lawmakers in the Egyptian parliament, January 2012. (photo credit: AP/Asmaa Waguih/File)

US casting wary eye on Egypt’s Brotherhood, endangering aid

Officials in Washington have expressed shock over Islamist group’s crackdown on protesters and Morsi’s anti-Semitic comments

By Lara Jakes

October 10, 2012
6:46 am

Blindfolded and handcuffed suspected al-Qaida members are guarded by Iraqi army soldiers in an Iraqi army base in Hillah, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, July 20, 2012. (photo credit: Alaa al-Marjani/AP)

Al-Qaida is making a comeback in Iraq, officials say

Insurgents gain strength on government’s security mistakes, region’s instability

By Lara Jakes and Qassim Abdul-Zahra

September 25, 2012
11:49 am

Iran’s Khamenei is poster boy for influence in Iraq

A campaign depicting the supreme leader on Baghdad streets attests to renewal of ties between the two former enemies

By Lara Jakes and Qassim Abdul-Zahra

September 21, 2012
6:06 am

A Libyan man holds a placard in English during a demonstration on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, against the attack on the US Consulate that killed four Americans, including the ambassador, in Benghazi, Libya. (photo credit: Ibrahim Alaguri/AP)

In reaction to film, Muslims are torn between blasphemy and barbarism

A debate on free speech is underway in the new Muslim world

By Hamza Hendawi and Lara Jakes

September 6, 2012
5:37 am

US Senator Joe Lieberman, left, greets Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari in Baghdad on Tuesday (photo credit: AP/Karim Kadim)

Iraq’s role in Syria war poses problems for US

Iranian weapons shipments passing through Iraqi airspace indicate Washington’s limited influence

By Bradley Klapper and Lara Jakes

September 3, 2012
12:26 pm

Iraqis shop at a marketplace in northern Baghdad's Kazimiyah neighborhood on Sunday, September 2 (photo credit: AP/Karim Kadim)

Generation gap widens as young Iraqis embrace Western fashion

No reports of ‘fashion police’ or arrests, but rising tensions over trend of nontraditional garb

By Lara Jakes

July 31, 2012
10:45 am

This citizen journalism image purports to show damage from heavy shelling of a district in Damascus, Syria on July 23. Iraqi refugees who sought refuge in Syria are now fleeing the violence and heading back to Iraq (photo credit: AP/Shaam News Network)

Iraqi refugees flee Syria to avoid sectarian revenge

At least 12,680 people stream back to their homeland, escaping civil war and attacks on Shiites

By Lara Jakes

July 13, 2012
12:36 am

US military spokesman Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner speaks during a press conference, near a poster of senior Lebanese Hezbollah operative Ali Mussa Daqduq in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2007. (photo credit: Wathiq Khuzaie/AP)

US moves to extradite Hezbollah prisoner from Iraq

Lebanese-born Ali Mussa Daqduq, accused of masterminding a 2007 attack that killed 5 US soldiers, is being held under house arrest in Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone

By Lara Jakes and Qassim Abdul-Zahra

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Writer: Lara Jakes

‘Boston suspects were lone wolves motivated by radical Islam’

US officials say Tamerlan Tsarnaev was avid reader of jihadist sites, extremist propaganda; brother grilled in hospital room

Eyeing Syria, White House woos regional rulers

Obama administration increasingly worried about what may happen if the regime falls before opposition groups can agree on a governing structure

US restraint in Syria could aid Iran nuclear talks

Tehran is unlikely to bend to Washington’s will while simultaneously fighting American-supplied rebels in Syria

Momentum weakened for Syrian president’s ouster

Beyond threats of military intervention, there is growing consensus that little can be done to put new pressure on Assad

Bin Laden son-in-law could yield info on al-Qaeda

US experts say Sulaiman Abu Ghaith may provide useful details about organization’s inner workings, less about current plots

Small steps forward sought in Iran nuclear talks

West offers to ease sanctions in exchange for limiting uranium enrichment

World offers Iran sanctions relief to curb nukes

Negotiators set low expectations for latest round of negotiations, slated to begin in Kazakhstan Tuesday

US casting wary eye on Egypt’s Brotherhood, endangering aid

Officials in Washington have expressed shock over Islamist group’s crackdown on protesters and Morsi’s anti-Semitic comments

Al-Qaida is making a comeback in Iraq, officials say

Insurgents gain strength on government’s security mistakes, region’s instability

Iran’s Khamenei is poster boy for influence in Iraq

A campaign depicting the supreme leader on Baghdad streets attests to renewal of ties between the two former enemies

In reaction to film, Muslims are torn between blasphemy and barbarism

A debate on free speech is underway in the new Muslim world

Iraq’s role in Syria war poses problems for US

Iranian weapons shipments passing through Iraqi airspace indicate Washington’s limited influence

Generation gap widens as young Iraqis embrace Western fashion

No reports of ‘fashion police’ or arrests, but rising tensions over trend of nontraditional garb

Iraqi refugees flee Syria to avoid sectarian revenge

At least 12,680 people stream back to their homeland, escaping civil war and attacks on Shiites

US moves to extradite Hezbollah prisoner from Iraq

Lebanese-born Ali Mussa Daqduq, accused of masterminding a 2007 attack that killed 5 US soldiers, is being held under house arrest in Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone

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