Topic: Middle East (page 10)

SANLIURFA, TURKEY - OCTOBER 20: (TURKEY OUT) An explosion rocks Syrian city of Kobani during a reported suicide car bomb attack by the militants of Islamic State (ISIS) group on a People's Protection Unit (YPG) position in the city center of Kobani, as seen from the outskirts of Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, October 20, 2014 in Sanliurfa province, Turkey. According to Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey will reportedly allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross the Syrian border to fight Islamic State (IS) militants in the Syrian city of Kobani while the United States has sent planes to drop weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Syrian Kurdish fighters around Kobani. (Photo by Gokhan Sahin/Getty Images) (Reuters/Lucas Jackson/Getty/Saul Loeb/Gokhan Sahin/Salon)

Does Team Trump want holy war?

Conor Lynch
Vladimir Putin (AP/Khalil Hamra/Photo montage by Salon)

Putin's Middle East plan

Steven A. Cook
Parade-goers vie for beads and trinkets during the Krewe of Proteus Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. The day is known as Lundi Gras, the day before Mardi Gras. () (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

mardi gras beads

David Redmon - The Conversation
Glenn Beck (AP/Timothy D. Easley)

Saudi Defence Minister Mohamed bin Salman (L) and Crown Prince and Interior Minister Mohammed bin Nayef attend the 136th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit, in the Saudi capital Riyadh, on December 9, 2015 (Getty/Fayez Nureldine)

America and the Saudis: Why?

Steven A. Cook
(AP Photo/Krzysztof Zatycki)

Danny Sjursen - TomDispatch.com
Donald Trump; Benjamin Netanyahu (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton/Nir Elias/Photo montage by Salon)

Trump on Israel: Who knows?

Matthew Sheffield
Donald Trump; Derek Harvey; Michael Flynn (Getty/Aude Guerrucci/Mark Wilson/Mandel Ngan)

Our man in the Middle East

Steven A. Cook
Protestors gather in Tahrir Square on February 1, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt (Getty/Peter Macdiarmid)

Is Trump moving toward a coup?

Steven A. Cook
The US Embassy building in Tel Aviv. (Getty/Jack Guez)

Embassy to Jerusalem? Hell no

Steven A. Cook
Donald Trump; An image grab of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, taken from Egyptian state TV. (Reuters/Brian Snyder/Getty/AFP/Photo montage by Salon)

Middle East confused by Trump

Steven A. Cook
(AP)

4 conflicts Trump faces

Michael T. Klare - TomDispatch.com
A woman walks past wooden, triangular ceiling panels from 15th century Muslim Spain (Getty/Sean Gallup)

The heart of fear is ignorance

Kishwar Rizvi - The Conversation
(AP/Richard Shiro/Getty/Samuel Aranda/Photo montage by Salon)

Andrew Bacevich - BillMoyers.com
John Kerry; Dwight Eisenhower (AP)

John Kerry's Ike moment

Sandy Tolan
(AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta/John Locher)

Medea Benjamin - Alternet
FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, welcomes pro-Brexit British politician Nigel Farage. (AP)

Ryan Bohl - Geopolitics Made Super

The power of non-violence

Catie Perry, Hayley Folk
Syrian man holding a girl as he stands on the rubble of houses that were destroyed by Syrian government forces air strikes in Aleppo, Syria (AP)

Trump or Clinton, Syria loses

Sophia A. McClennen
People protests against the ban on a gay pride march, off Istiklal Avenue, central Istanbul's main shopping road, Sunday, June 19, 2016. Turkish police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators who gathered for a gay pride rally in Istanbul despite a government ban. stanbul's governor had banned gay, lesbian and transgender individuals from holding two annual parades this year citing security concerns. (AP Photo/ Emrah Gurel) (AP)

Homosexuality, a Western vice

Jacob Wirtschafter - GlobalPost
A Syrian refugee feeds her child at a tent camp on the outskirts of Izmir on April 28, 2016 in Izmir, Turkey. (Getty/Chris McGrath)

Refugees: We must do better

Daniel Denvir

Brendan Gauthier
FILE -- In this Aug. 15, 2012 file photo, three variations of the AR-15 assault rifle are displayed at the California Department of Justice in Sacramento, Calif. While the guns look similar, the bottom version is illegal in California because of its quick reload capabilities. Omar Mateen used an AR-15 that he purchased legally when he killed 49 people in an Orlando nightclub over the weekend President Barack Obama and other gun control advocates have repeatedly called for reinstating a federal ban on semi-automatic assault weapons that expired in 2004, but have been thwarted by Republicans in Congress. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,file) (AP)

america dominates arms trade

William D. Hartung - TomDispatch.com
In this April 12, 2016 photo, a dried up pond is seen in Talagoan, 145 kilometres (90 miles) north-east of Mumbai, India. Another year of severe drought has left hundreds of millions reeling in at least 13 Indian states, and experts predict the situation will only worsen as summer stretches on. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) (AP)

weather fuels conflict

John Upton - Climate Central
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