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May 14, 2013 DC’s Newseum Inclusion of Hamas Media Sparks Debate Two cameramen from Hamas’s television network, Al-Aksa TV, are included in an exhibit at the Newseum in Washington – a media museum and major event space – that this month is ho... May 13, 2013 Frustrated with Diplomacy, Some in Congress Seek Total Ban on Iran’s Oil After... May 9, 2013 Senate Bill Would Halt Iran’s Access to an Estimated $100 Billion in Cash Seeking to escalate pressure on... May 9, 2013 Senate Bill Aims to Toughen Iran Sanctions A bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation Wednesday that would sharply toughen U.S. economic sanctions on... May 9, 2013 9 Disturbingly Good Jihadi Raps In the spirit of Ben Smith's "11 BuzzFeed Lists That Explain the World" for the May/June 2013 issue of... May 8, 2013 Woman Who Ran Secret Prison Bypassed As Top Spy One of the CIA's highest-ranking women, who once ran a CIA prison in Thailand where terror suspects were waterboarded, has been bypassed for the agency's top sp... May 8, 2013 US Senators Seek to Block Iran From Billion-Dollar Reserves Legislation introduced by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Wednesday would block Iran's access to billions of dollars worth of foreign currency reserves in the latest congressional eff... May 7, 2013 Iran Faces Fresh Trade Heat as More Shipping Firms Exit Foreign container shipping lines are giving up on Iranian business ahe... May 6, 2013 Trade Allies Throw Lifeline to Iran’s Steel Sector China, Russia... May 6, 2013 Seyyed Shamseddin Hosseini Almost a year after the United States and the European Union imposed unprecedentedly harsh sanctions against Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons, the country is not only surviving,... May 6, 2013 Contemplating Syria, Hezbollah Retaliation The alleged attacks by Israel against Syria, supposedly targeting an arms facility and advanced Iranian surface-to-surface missiles believed to be headed for Hezbollah, raises pressure on the Syr... May 6, 2013 Disappearing Red Lines In his April 30 White House press conference, President Obama explained that there’s evidence chemical weapons have been used in Syria, but “we don’t know how they were used, wh... May 1, 2013 You Can Buy Jihadi Rap on iTunes, But is That a Good Thing? I didn't think it would be hard to find "9 Disturbingly Good Jihadi Raps" online, but it was. T... April 29, 2013 Rep. Tom Cotton Says More Terrorists have ‘Reached Their Targets’ Under Barack Obama Than Under Bush During a House floor speech just days after the Boston Marathon bombing, Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., sought to compare President Barack Obama’s record on terrorism unfavorably to that of Obama... April 24, 2013 Secret Cahoots More Likely with Jordan Than Turkey Two recent unconfirmed reports that Israel is secretly cooperating with Jordan and Turkey to safeguard its regional interests do not necessarily mean anything. Th... April 24, 2013 Succession Plans A Republican congressman warned Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority would lose U.S. aid if officials affiliated with terror group Hamas succeed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Fo... April 24, 2013 Iran Unleashed, Unbowed One of the Obama administration talking points is that it has weakened and isolated the Iranian regime. Aside from the economic beating Iran has taken, there really isn’t any evidence that... April 24, 2013 Rep. Peter King Says Alleged Boston Bombers are Fifth Terrorists to Survive Prior US Scrutiny One additional case shares some aspects of the pattern King laid out -- that of Umar Farook Abdulmutallab, the "underwear bomber." But since his plot was foiled and he did not go... April 24, 2013 US Treasury Takes Action Against Hezbollah Funders The US Treasury Department on Tuesday listed two Lebanese exchange houses as institutions of “primary money laundering concern” for their work with Hezbollah, invoking Section 311 of... April 16, 2013 US Expert Warns of Environmental Danger to Gulf Region From Iran”s Bushehr Nuclear Plant A leading American expert on Iran speaking in Brussels on Tuesday warned that Iran's nuclear reactor in Bushehr area is prone to earthquakes poses a real health and environmental threat to t... April 15, 2013 Who Will Be the Next Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority? Mahmoud Abbas formally accepted the resignation of his prime minister, Salam Fayyad, this weekend despite the best efforts of the U.S. and John Kerry to reconcile the two. The rift between Fayyad... April 15, 2013 Wheels Off the Bus in Obama Middle East Policy: Fayyad Quits Salam Fayyad has resigned as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority. Losing practically the only Palestinian leader committed to building civil society and limiting corruption is a blow for... April 15, 2013 A Mysterious Iranian-Run Factory in Germany For years, mystery surrounded an Iranian-controlled factory tucked away in this town of 70,000 in Germany’s industrial west. The plant manufactured high-pressure gas tanks, but its... April 15, 2013 Middle East Peace Prospects Spark Debate Students gathered to watch Middle East experts Gaith al-Omari and Jonathan Schanzer debate issues regarding Israel and Palestine last night. The event was sponsored by the Coalition of Hopkins Ac... April 15, 2013 Fayyad’s Exit Signals Oslo’s Bankruptcy The resignation of Palestinian Authority Prime... April 15, 2013 Abbas to Appoint PM or Head Gov’t Himself Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has not decided who will replace Salam Fayyad as PA prime minister, sources in Ramallah said on Sunday. ... Last weekend, US Secret... April 12, 2013 US Blacklists an Iranian and Businesses Over Violation of Sanctions The United States blacklisted an affluent Iranian business executive and what it described as his multibillion-dollar money laundering network on Thursday, accusing them of selling oil for Iran i... April 11, 2013 Uzbek Fighters Gain Support in Afghan North Taloqan, Afghanistan - More than a decade ago, the people of the predominately Uzbek province of Takhar in the country's north fiercely resisted the Taliban's desi... April 9, 2013 Targeted Killing Comes to Define War on Terror In Pakistan, where the SEAL raid that killed Bin Laden sent Pakistani-American relations into a tailspin, drone strikes — though deeply unpopular — are tolerated by the security estab... April 9, 2013 World Powers Await Iran’s Reaction to Nuclear Offer World powers will urge Iran on Friday to accept their offer to ease some economic sanctions if it stops its most sensitive nuclear work, i... April 9, 2013 Diplomats See ‘Wide Gulf’ as Iran Talks End in a Muddle The failure of the sides to achieve tangible progress — or even a firm date for new talks — was seen as a disappointment for the Obama administration, though most experts had anticipa... April 9, 2013 Khamenei’s Ever-Changing Nuclear Fatwa Much ink has been spilled over the alleged nuclear fatwa which Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has issued forbidding the use of nuclear weapons. If the Deputy of the Messiah on Earth s... April 9, 2013 Iran Nuclear Stalemate Sends Powers to Ponder Consequences “We believe that some aspects of the Western side are unjust and not in accordance with international legal norms,” Russia’s top negotiator Sergei Ryabkov said. “The model... April 9, 2013 Failure of Nuclear Talks with Iran Jumpstarts Push in Congress for Tougher Sanctions Current sanctions have undercut the Iranian economy, causing high unemployment and inflation while daily oil production and the value of the country’s currency, the rial, have dropped.... April 9, 2013 US Senators Seeking Tougher Economic Sanctions on Iran A group of U.S. lawmakers is proposing to intensify the economic pressure on Iran over its disputed nuclear program by drafting the harshest penalt... April 9, 2013 Iran Celebrates Nuke Pursuit Russia has agreed to help Iran construct two new nuclear reactors in the coming year Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Tuesday, its “National Day of Nuclear Technology.&rdq... April 4, 2013 ‘There’s No Turning Back’: My Interview With a Hunted American Jihadist The screams have started. On its official, English-language Twitter account, Shebab typically subtweets shots at Hammami (“... April 4, 2013 A Court in Cambodia Duch gave the Nuremberg defense: He was merely following orders. He was convicted, and sentenced to 35 years in prison, reduced to 19. This sentence was appealed to a higher chamber within the EC... April 2, 2013 Hamas, Qatar Ties Strengthen Hamas has reelected a prominent Qatar-based official to head its i... April 1, 2013 The Next Arab Challenge Ibrahim el-Houdaiby is exactly the sort of man the United States needs on its side these days. A 29-year-old graduate of the American University in Cairo, he is one of the firebrands who decamped... March 28, 2013 Flotilla Follies Anti-Israel activists are preparing to launch another... March 26, 2013 Iraq: The Consequences of Bugging Out There is no better example of the trouble wrought by President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s policy of retreat and retrenchment than the sight of Secretary of State John Kerry... March 26, 2013 Japan, Australia to Sanction North Korean Bank as Part of US-Led Crackdown Japan and... March 25, 2013 Senate Shows United Support for Blocking Iran Access to Euros The Senate showed strong support over the weekend for blocking Iran's access to euros, as Congress continues to push for additional measures to choke funding to Tehran's nuclear program... March 25, 2013 Australian Senate Unanimously Passes Motion on Organ Harvesting The Australian Senate unanimously passed a motion on March 21 urging the government to oppose the practice of organ harvesting in China. The motion was introduced before the 76-member Up... March 25, 2013 Senate Authorizes Funding to Keep Iran From Laundering Euro The U.S. Senate unanimously authorized funding for programs that would make it easier to shut out Iran from the European Central Bank's money transfer system. The amendment to the b... March 25, 2013 Israel-Turkey Reconciliation Begins Following Netanyahu Apology Israel and Turkey took steps to restore ties nearly three years after the deaths of nine Turks on an aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip as the U.... March 21, 2013 Obama and Netanyahu Closer on Iran, But Is It Too Late? President Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli public Wednesday that the United States will not let Iran obtain a nuclear weapon, and the two leaders appeared to m... March 21, 2013 Experts Doubt Syria has Used Chemical Weapons Whether Syria crossed a "red line" by using chemical weapons in its battle against a rebellion appeared murky Wednesday and both sides in the war blamed the other for an attack that Western natio... March 20, 2013 House Bill Would Cut Aid to Palestinian Authority A Florida Republican House member plans to introduce a bill halting U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) until it formally “recognizes Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state&...

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