Netanyahu's victory pitch falls on deaf ears in Israel

Many Israelis believe that they lost the Iran war, with opposition leader Yair Lapid accusing the Israeli premier of having led the country into "strategic collapse and diplomatic catastrophe"

Asaad Ghanem

Carrots and Very Big Sticks

[caption id="attachment_55245562" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iranian president Hassan Rouhani attends the Shanghai Cooperation Ogranisation Summit on September 13,2013, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. …

Arash Aramesh

Transition at a Turtle’s Pace

[caption id="attachment_55245529" align="alignnone" width="620"] Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou, Justice Minister Nadhir Ben Ammou and Minister of Human Rights and Transitional Justice…

Youssef Cherif

International Indecision

[caption id="attachment_55245523" align="alignnone" width="594"] US Secretary of State John Kerry and Qatar's Prime Minister Khalid bin Mohammad al Attiyah give a joint press conference on September…

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

From the Jaws of Syria

[caption id="attachment_55245506" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iranian woman walks past an anti-US mural painted on the wall of the former US embassy in Tehran.(ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)[…

Christian Emery

Crying Wolf—Again

[caption id="attachment_55245479" align="aligncenter" width="619"] A Yemeni woman hold a picture of a child bride during a rally near the parliament in Sanaa on March 23, 2010 to show support to a…

Catherine Shakdam

A Way out of the Labyrinth

[caption id="attachment_55245471" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yildiz greets Irsen Kucuk, former prime minister of the break-away Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus…

Hugh Pope

Only God and America

[caption id="attachment_55245467" align="alignnone" width="620"] US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press conference after talks with French Foreign Affairs minister and British Foreign…

Malik al-Abdeh

From Table Tennis to Twitter

[caption id="attachment_55245452" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Logos for the microblogging site Twitter, displayed on the Internet on September 13, 2013 in London, England (Mary Turner/Getty…

Ataollah Mohajerani

One Giant Leap too Far

[caption id="attachment_55245423" align="alignnone" width="620"] People react after the announcement of the 2020 Olympic Games host city on September 7, 2013, in Istanbul. (Baris Acarli/Getty Images)…

Vedica Kant