Topic: Middle East (page 34)

Syrian citizens who fled from violence from the western Syrian villages along the Lebanese-Syrian border, protest as they shout slogans against Bashar Assad and his regime, in the Wadi Khaled area, about one kilometer (0.6 miles) from the Lebanon-Syria border, north Lebanon, on Monday May 16, 2011. Carrying mattresses and bags of clothing, Syrians fleeing their homeland described a "catastrophic" scene Monday in a besieged border town that has been largely sealed off as the army tries to crush a two-month uprising. (AP Photo) (AP)

Bassem Mroue
** CORRECTS SPELLING OF LEBANESE ** Syrian citizens who fled from violence from the western Syrian villages along the Lebanese-Syrian border, protest as they shout slogans against Bashar Assad and his regime, in the Wadi Khaled area, about one kilometer (0.6 miles) from the Lebanon-Syria border, north Lebanon, on Monday May 16, 2011. Carrying mattresses and bags of clothing, Syrians fleeing their homeland described a "catastrophic" scene Monday in a besieged border town that has been largely sealed off as the army tries to crush a two-month uprising. (AP Photo) (AP)

Bassem Mroue
President Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Friday, May 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Erica Werner
President Barack Obama shakes hands with audience members after he delivered his Middle East speech at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, May 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Associated Press
An Egyptian woman watches U.S. President Barack Obama's policy address, outside a shop selling televisions in Cairo, Egypt Thursday, May 19, 2011. President Barack Obama on Thursday endorsed a key Palestinian demand for the borders of its future state and prodded Israel to accept that it can never have a truly peaceful nation based on "permanent occupation." (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (AP)

Natasha Lennard
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference in his office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 18, 2011. When U.S President Barack Obama and Netanyahu meet this week to try to revive deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, they will do so against a vastly changed Middle East landscape. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) (AP)

Erica Werner
An unidentified U.S. soldier is seen at the scene of a suicide attack in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Afghanistan: Why can't we learn from our mistakes?

Tom Engelhardt
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pauses during a press conference in his office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 18, 2011. When U.S President Barack Obama and Netanyahu meet this week to try to revive deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, they will do so against a vastly changed Middle East landscape. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) (AP)

Associated Press
** CORRECTS SPELLING OF LEBANESE ** Syrian citizens who fled from violence from the western Syrian villages along the Lebanese-Syrian border, protest as they shout slogans against Bashar Assad and his regime, in the Wadi Khaled area, about one kilometer (0.6 miles) from the Lebanon-Syria border, north Lebanon, on Monday May 16, 2011. Carrying mattresses and bags of clothing, Syrians fleeing their homeland described a "catastrophic" scene Monday in a besieged border town that has been largely sealed off as the army tries to crush a two-month uprising. (AP Photo) (AP)

Ben Feller
FILE - In this May 2, 2011 file photo, a Pakistan army soldier stands on top of the house where it is believed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden lived in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The Americans who raided Osama bin Laden's lair met far less resistance than the Obama administration described in the aftermath, according to its latest account. The commandos encountered gunshots from only one man, whom they quickly killed, before sweeping the house and shooting others, who were unarmed, a senior defense official said. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File) (AP)

Associated Press
Syrian citizens who fled from violence from the western Syrian villages along the Lebanese-Syrian border, protest as they shout slogans against Bashar Assad and his regime, in the Wadi Khaled area, about one kilometer (0.6 miles) from the Lebanon-Syria border, north Lebanon, on Monday May 16, 2011. Carrying mattresses and bags of clothing, Syrians fleeing their homeland described a "catastrophic" scene Monday in a besieged border town that has been largely sealed off as the army tries to crush a two-month uprising. (AP Photo) (AP)

Zeina Karam
Syrian protesters chant slogans and hold anti-Syrian President posters during a demonstration demanding that Syria's President Bashar Assad step down, in front of the Arab League headquarters building in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May 15, 2011. Hundreds of Syrians fled to neighboring Lebanon to escape a violent crackdown against an anti-government uprising that has claimed the lives of more than 800 civilians, Lebanese security officials and a leading human rights group said. Arabic read " people want Assad step down". (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (AP)

Ben Feller, Matthew Lee
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Zeina Karam
FILE - This undated file photo shows Dorothy Parvaz, a former Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter and now Al-Jazeera journalist. The pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera said Wednesday, May 11, 2011 that Syrian officials report that one of the network's journalists, Dorothy Parvaz, was sent to Iran following her detention last month in Damascus. (AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo, File) (AP)

Adam Schreck
At right, U.S. soldiers stand guard in front the gate of a U.S. base after an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, April 2, 2011.

Nick Turse
Syrian citizens carry their belongings, as they cross the border illegally , fleeing from violence the western Syrian village of Talkalakh, in the Wadi Khaled area, about one kilometer (0.6 miles) from the Lebanon-Syria border, north Lebanon, Monday May 16, 2011. Carrying mattresses and bags of clothing, Syrians fleeing their homeland described a "catastrophic" scene Monday in a besieged border town that has been largely sealed off as the army tries to crush a two-month uprising. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) (AP)

Bassem Mroue
Palestinian mourners carry the body of a Palestinian man who killed when Israeli soldiers opened fire on Sunday at protesters who approached the northen Israeli border with Lebanon, during a funeral procession at Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, in the southern port city of Sidon, southern Lebanon, on Monday May 16, 2011. Israeli troops clashed with Arab protesters along three hostile borders on Sunday, leaving as many as 12 people dead and dozens wounded in an unprecedented wave of violence marking the anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians surrounding Israel's establishment in 1948. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari) (AP)

Syria, Israel and the politics of distraction

Natasha Lennard
Palestinian children, one holding a Dome of the Rock cutout during a rally marking the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba, or catastrophe, the Arabic term used to describe the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with the 1948 creation of the state of Israel, in the West Bank City of Nablus, Sunday, May 15, 2011.(AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh) (AP)

Mohammed Daraghmeh, Amy Teibel
President Barack Obama tours the Sphinx and pyramids outside Cairo, Thursday, June 4, 2009.

Nadia Hijab
Israeli soldiers run past burning tires under a mural of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers following a protest to mark the upcoming 63rd anniversary of "Nakba", Arabic for "Catastrophe", the term used to mark the events leading to Israel's founding in 1948, in the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem, Saturday, May 14, 2011.(AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed) (AP)

Associated Press
FILE - In this March 13, 2011, file photo, a Bahraini anti-government protester gestures in front of riot police on an overpass near Pearl roundabout in Manama, Bahrain. Bahrain's state media says a military court in the Gulf kingdom has convicted four Shiite protesters and sentenced them to death, Thursday, April 28, 2011, for the killing two policemen during anti-government demonstrations last month. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File) (AP)

Justin Elliott
Special Envoy George Mitchell With Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak at the King David Hotel, Jerusalem, 2009.

Matthew Lee
In this photo taken during a visit organized by Bahrain's Interior Ministry Bahrain police check a driver's identification at a checkpoint in the capital of Manama, Bahrain Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Natasha Lennard
President Barack Obama waves as he prepares to speak at the Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater, Tuesday, May 10, 2011, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) (AP)

Julie Pace
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