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Patrick Ventrell
smoke rises from a building in Homs, Syria, after heavy shelling (photo credit: Shaam News Network via AP video)
July 1, 2013, 6:18 am
US condemns heavy Syrian attack on Homs
State Department takes Assad to task for ‘continued attacks’ against civilians, calls on Hezbollah to leave Syria
By TOI staff
Edward Snowden, a former contract employee at the National Security Agency (AP/The Guardian/File)
June 26, 2013, 3:50 am
US tones down demands that Russia expel NSA leaker
‘We’re not looking for a confrontation,’ says Kerry; Moscow’s refusal to hand over Snowden seen as a wake-up call for Washington
By Lara Jakes
Former US Marine Amir Hekmati, who is being held in a prison in Iran on charges of spying for the CIA (photo credit: AP/Hekmati family via FreeAmir.org)
April 26, 2013, 10:17 pm
Family of Marine jailed in Iran seeks Kerry’s help
US citizen Amir Hekmati is suspected by Tehran authorities of being a CIA spy; has spent over 600 days in prison
In this citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian girls paint their faces with colors of the Syrian revolutionary flag during a fesitval, in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday March 20, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center)
April 26, 2013, 9:07 pm
Obama’s Syria caution reflects US division over resort to force
Response to likely use of chemical weapons shows lack of agreement in Washington over aggressive military intervention
By Bradley Klapper and Donna Cassata
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in January 2012 (photo: Mohammed Al-Ostaz / Flash 90)
March 28, 2013, 1:52 am
Erdogan’s planned Gaza visit concerns US
Aid to Palestinians must ‘go through established channels’ and ‘meet Israel’s legitimate security concerns,’ spokesman says
By Sam Ser
Thousands of Palestinians attend the funeral of Arafat Jaradat in the West Bank village of Si'ir, near Hebron on Monday, February 25 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
February 26, 2013, 1:48 am
US urges restraint in wake of Palestinian prisoner’s death
‘We expect all parties to consider the results of the autopsy calmly and without inflammatory rhetoric,’ says State Department official
By Ron Friedman
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem (AP/Dimitri Messinis)
February 26, 2013, 12:21 am
Syrian FM: Damascus prepared to talk with rebels
In Moscow, Walid al-Moallem extends olive branch to insurgents in first sign of regime’s willingness to negotiate end to conflict
By RYAN LUCAS
Abraham Katsman
September 12, 2012, 7:20 pm
Abraham Katsman
Why trust the Democrats on Jerusalem?
The outrageousness of the stories surrounding the party’s now-you see-them, now-you-don’t sections relating to Israel grows daily
President Barack Obama (Obama image via Shutterstock)
September 7, 2012, 11:37 am
Despite amended party platform, Obama administration refuses to name Israel’s capital
At State Department briefing, official says only that Jerusalem is an issue for final status negotiations
By Yoel Goldman
August 2, 2012, 6:19 pm
Turkey flexes military might as Washington urges restraint
State Department says it does not want further militarization of situation in Syria; Ankara drills its tanks on the border
By Ilan Ben Zion
Young boy in the West Bank outpost of Migron (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 10, 2012, 8:12 am
US State Department comes out against settlement report
‘We oppose any effort to legalize settlement outposts,’ spokesman says about panel’s findings that Israel is not an occupying force in the West Bank
By Gabe Fisher
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