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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem offices, April 10, 2011. Both Israel and the Hamas organization in the Gaza Strip have expressed a willingness to stop cross-border violence that has killed some 19 Palestinians and saw over 100 missiles and rockets fired into southern Israel in the past days.
Israeli minister warms to choice of Hagel for Pentagon
Reuters 08 Jan 2013
JERUSALEM — A senior Israeli diplomat has given a positive view of Chuck Hagel's nomination as US defense...
Pentagon official arrives in Cairo to discuss Sinai security
DPA 11 Nov 2012
The US assistant defense secretary for international security affairs arrived in Cairo Sunday, leading a delegation on...
Iraqi security forces stand guard in front of a police station in the Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad on Wednesday, 12 October, 2011 after a bombing there.
Review slams US training of Iraqi police
AP 24 Oct 2011
BAGHDAD - A US State Department program to train Iraqi police lacks focus, could become a "bottomless pit" of...