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U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter looks on as Iraqi Defense Minister Sadun Farhan al-Dulaymi addresses the media after a counterpart visit in Baghdad, Oct. 18, 2012.
Car Bombings   Iraq   Photos   Security   Wikipedia: May 2013 Iraq attacks		  Voa News 
Iraqi PM Orders Security Shakeup as Violence Surges
Tue 21 May 2013
Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered a shakeup of senior government security officers, as a weeks-long wave of violence grips the country and fears of all-out sectarian war... (photo: US DoD / U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley)
Palestinians take part in a protest against the reduction of some of the financial and food aid services given by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to Palestine refugees, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 9, 2013. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN
Aid   Humanitarian   Photos   Wikipedia: World Food Programme   World		  Huffington Post 
Review: Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails
Tue 21 May 2013
If Christopher Coyne's new book, Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails needed a subtitle, I'd be willing to offer up "We Meant Well, Too." Coyne's book puts into formal terms what I... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
People gather around a destroyed shop at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. A car bomb ripped through a funeral tent in a mainly Shiite area of Baghdad on Thursday, killing and wounding scores of people and prompting scuffles between police and Iraqis angry about security failures.  my SA  Tue 21 May 2013
Car bomb, other attacks kill 20 in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bomb exploded as Sunni worshippers were leaving a mosque after evening prayers Tuesday in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks that killed at least 20 people nationwide... (photo: AP / Khalid Mohammed)
Car Bombings   Iraq   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: May 2013 Iraq attacks
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika addresses supporters at a rally in the capital, Algiers, Thursday Feb. 12, 2009. Bouteflika said he will run for a third term in April elections. Bouteflika had been widely expected to run again despite persistent concerns about his health in recent years.  Baltimore Sun  Tue 21 May 2013
Algeria's Bouteflika convalescing in France
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria's prime minister, reacting to reports that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seriously ill, said the 76-year-old was recovering in France but had been ordered by his... (photo: AP / Alfred de Montesquiou)
Abdelaziz Bouteflika   Algeria   France   Photos   Wikipedia: Abdelaziz Bouteflika
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In this Sunday, March 10, 2013 photo, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, holds hands with chief of staff Esfandiari Rahim Mashaei, during a press conference in Tehran, Iran. Reuters Tue 21 May 2013
Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad ally barred from Iran election
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities on Tuesday barred former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a relative moderate, from running in the June 14 election, along with a... (photo: AP / Mohammad Hassanzadeh)
Ali Akbar Rafsanjani   Elections   Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei   Iran   Photos   Wikipedia: Iranian presidential election, 2013
Head of the Iran's Experts Assembly Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, delivers his speech, during a meeting of the assembly, a powerful clerical panel charged with choosing or dismissing Iran's supreme leader, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. Al Jazeera Tue 21 May 2013
Two key candidates barred from Iran election
Iran's electoral watchdog has barred former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and a close aide to president Mahmoud Ahadinejad from running in the June 14 presidential... (photo: AP / Vahid Salemi)
Election   Iran   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Iranian presidential election, 2013
Bahrain Fort Gadling Tue 21 May 2013
Could Bahrain Become The Next Big Heritage Tourism Destination?
Desert Island Boy, flickr The tiny Persian Gulf island nation of Bahrain is home to one of the most mysterious ancient civilizations of the Middle East. Archaeologists... (photo: Creative Commons / Peter)
Bahrain   Desert   Heritage   Photos   Tourism   Wikipedia: Bahrain
An Iraqi woman, who sells milk, passes by the scene of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. The Guardian Tue 21 May 2013
Sectarian attacks in Iraq stoked by spillover from Syrian war
Ability of prime minister Nouri al-Maliki to contain crisis may hinge on events beyond his control Sectarian struggle ... an Iraqi woman passes by the scene of a car bomb... (photo: AP / Hadi Mizban)
Iraq   Photos   Syria   War   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war
Threat from within: U.S. military braced for surge in Taliban ‘insider’ attacks The Washington Times Tue 21 May 2013
Threat from within: U.S. military braced for surge in Taliban ‘insider’ attacks
Facebook Follow @washtimes Sen. John Cornyn says it's "past time" for Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to step down. Do you agree? Login to Vote View... (photo: US Navy / Matthew Stroup)
Attacks   Military   Photos   Taliban   Wikipedia: Afghanistan
File - An Israeli soldier drives an armored personal carrier during a military exercise in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. San Francisco Chronicle Tue 21 May 2013
Syria, Israel exchange fire over border
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria said Tuesday it destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights overnight, while the Israeli military said... (photo: AP / Ariel Schalit)
Israel   Photos   Syria   War   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war
Mourners pray over the two bodies killed in a car bomb attack before their burial in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. A wave of car bombings across Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed and wounded dozens of people, police said. The Star Tue 21 May 2013
Bombings in Iraq kill at least 12
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Several bomb blasts killed at least 12 people in Iraq on Tuesday, police said, a day after more than 70 died in attacks on majority Shi'ites,... (photo: AP / Alaa al-Marjani)
Bombing   Iraq   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Bomb
File - Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Miguel Mejiacontrera takes a blood pressure reading from a detainee at the Camp 6 Medical Center. Al Jazeera Tue 21 May 2013
Physician dismisses force-feeding concerns
A military physician who oversees a team of nurses force-feeding hunger-striking prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has dismissed ethical concerns raised... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Elisha Dawkins)
Guantanamo   Health   Human Rights   Photos   Wikipedia: Guantanamo Bay detention camp
An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator conducts a touch and go landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), marking the first time any unmanned aircraft has completed a touch and go landing at sea, 17 May, 2013. WorldNews.com Tue 21 May 2013
Justice in the Age of Drone Terror
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling "If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, in revolution it is both virtue and terror: virtue without... (photo: US Navy / Alan Radecki courtesy Northrop Grumman)
Defence   Photos   Terrorism   US   Wikipedia: Drone attacks in Pakistan


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Palestinian supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) wave the group's red flag, the Syrian flag, and the Palestinian flag as they holds poster of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, during a rally on May 7,2013. Against Israeli attack on Syria in Khan Yunis town in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel is not getting involved in Syria's civil war, Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said just days after two Israeli air strikes near Damascus sent regional tensions soaring. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN Hezbollah pulled more deeply into Syria civil war The Guardian
Supporters of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans and wave his campaign posters outside the Presidential palace, background, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. Supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist president staged rival rallies Friday after he assumed sweeping new powers, a clear show of the deepening polarization plaguing the country. Egypt: Echoes of the revolution far from Cairo BBC News
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As a Blackhawak helicopter rumbles overhead, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter speaks with BGen Ron Lewis, right, at Gambrei during a visit to forward bases in Afghanistan, May 13, 2013. Al Qaeda: Enemy or Asset? CounterPunch
Army launch recruitment drive for 10,000 new young soldiers ahead of redundancies Army launch recruitment drive for 10,000 new young soldiers ahead of redundancies The Daily Telegraph
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President Barack Obama arrives at a rally for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, Thursday, July 16, 2009, in Holmdel, N.J. Is Obama's Government Too Big To Succeed? Business Insider
A look at the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the 2011 US troop pullout A look at the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the 2011 US troop pullout The Washington Post
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People run away from tear gas during a demonstration against the deployment of 11,000 police and soldiers in the city of Kairouan, to prevent the ultraconservative Muslim group Ansar al-Shariah from holding its annual conference, Sunday May 19, 2013. Tunisian police clash with Salafists over banning of annual congress The Daily Telegraph
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika speaks at the Supreme Court in Algiers, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. Algeria's president, 72, who led his oil-rich and gas-rich North African nation out of a bloody Islamic insurgency, started clearing the way Wednesday to give himself a third term in office, announcing plans to abolish limits that would have prevented his re-election. With president ailing, Algeria prepares for end of an era Daily Press
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