The New York Times
Monday, June 23, 2014 - 07:00
Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Baghdad on Monday morning to urge the Iraqis to bridge their sectarian differences and to encourage them to form a new, inclusive government.
Monday, June 23, 2014 - 06:42
As Iraqi Army forces try to rally on the outskirts of Baghdad after two weeks of retreat, it has become increasingly clear to Western officials that the army will continue to suffer losses in its fight with Sunni militants and will not soon retake the ground it has ceded.
Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 08:29
The governor of Michoacán, one of the country’s most violent states, where people have taken up arms to fight drug and organized crime gangs, has resigned because of poor health.
Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 07:24
With the election of a relatively moderate president in Iran and the rise of radical Sunni fighters in Syria and Iraq, Britain is pressing ahead to improve relations with Iran and reopen its embassy in Tehran.
Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 07:22
The Iranian leadership had a message for Washington on Wednesday: If President Obama really wants some cooperation on stabilizing Iraq, he might first think about speeding forward with a permanent deal over Iran’s nuclear capability.
Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 07:11
The Obama administration has told the United Nations that Ahmed Abu Khattala, the suspected ringleader of the 2012 attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was plotting additional attacks on Americans and that the United States conducted the weekend raid that seized him under its right to self-defense.
Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 06:57
Tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Islamic rivals of the Middle East, appeared to escalate on Wednesday over the Sunni extremist insurgency convulsing Iraq.
Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 06:38
President Obama and congressional leaders on Wednesday privately confronted the politically delicate question of whether Mr. Obama would be required to ask Congress for permission to take military action against Sunni fighters in Iraq, but emerged from an hourlong Oval Office meeting with different views of what was said.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 - 11:08
The United States suggested on Tuesday that the global organization responsible for overseeing the ban on chemical weapons would have to take more assertive action than a simple condemnation concerning Syria, which will miss a June 30 deadline for the destruction of its chemical munitions and has been accused of using chlorine-gas bombs in its civil war.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 - 10:45
Why is the threat of ISIS in Iraq a sufficiently vital interest, but not the rise of ISIS in Syria — and a hideous civil war that has dismembered Syria itself and destabilized Lebanon, Jordan and now Iraq?