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The Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented terror attack on Israel, which has included the firing of thousands of rockets into Israel and the infiltration of Israeli territory by land, air, and sea.

Mazen Ahmed, director of investments and remittances at the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI), said on Thursday that cash withdrawals and transactions using U.S. dollars will be banned effective January 1, 2024.

The Pentagon confirmed that American armed forces shot down a Turkish drone near Hasakah, Syria, as it posed a ‘potential threat’ to a nearby U.S. base.

An attorney for an American tourist arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at the Israel Museum says his client may have “Jerusalem Syndrome,” a mental illness in which visitors to the city believe they are Biblical figures.

Some left-wing groups and writers who claim to be “pro-peace” when it comes to the Middle East are criticizing a potential peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel because of their enmity toward the Israeli government.

Iraqi Christian leaders on Monday demanded an international investigation into a fire that killed 113 people at a wedding in a predominantly Christian town last week.

The Taliban blasted Pakistan Wednesday for ordering roughly 1.73 million Afghans living in the country illegally to leave by November 1.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kana’ani told reporters on Monday that his regime is ready to “resume negotiations” with the United States if President Joe Biden returns to the 2015 nuclear deal signed by predecessor Barack Obama.

An official delegation from Israel, including the second Cabinet minister to visit in as many weeks, held a formal Jewish prayer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on the holiday of Sukkot on Tuesday, as Saudi-Israeli relations improve.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke out Tuesday in defense of Christians and freedom of worship in Jerusalem, after a group of extremist Jews was filmed spitting on alleged Christian missionaries in the city.

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed an amendment last week that barred the Biden administration from moving the U.S. embassy in Israel out of Jerusalem, though 67 Democrats opposed it.

During interviews with NBC News and NPR released on Monday, recently-retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley stated that no one has been punished for how the war in Afghanistan ended, but “where people are looking

The government of Turkey announced a bombing campaign on Sunday consisting of airstrikes on 20 alleged strategic positions within the borders of Iraq, a response to a suicide attack against the Turkish General Directorate of Security in Ankara this weekend.

The Biden administration is reportedly standing in the way of a peace agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia by demanding that Israel offer more concessions to the Palestinians — which not even the Saudis have demanded.

Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to celebrate the indictment of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) on corruption charges in remarks this week suggesting that his removal from the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee would make it easier for Turkey to purchase American F-16 fighter jets.

Iran’s military staged a parade earlier this month in which soldiers stood atop a giant mural on the ground that read, in Hebrew: “Israel must be erased from.”

The Biden administration, through the State Department, has allegedly granted more than $90,000 to a Palestinian non-governmental organization that vocally supports terrorism against Israelis and associates with terror groups.

Republicans in both the House and Senate on Tuesday called for an investigation of the Iran Experts Initiative (IEI), an alleged Tehran-backed influence operation believed to have placed several of its proteges in the Biden administration, including officials close to Iran envoy Robert Malley.

Israel officially qualified for the U.S. Visa Waiver Program (VWP) on Wednesday, allowing Israelis to travel freely to the U.S. rather than submitting an extensive visa application, following several key reforms to meet U.S. criteria.

Pink Floyd co-founder and former frontman Roger Waters has been accused of antisemitic behavior, such as wanting swastika confetti at his concerts, an inflatable pig with “dirty kyke” written on it, and making remarks about “Jew food.”

Israeli Minister of Tourism Haim Katz became the first minister of an Israeli government to visit Saudi Arabia in a formal capacity this week when he led a delegations to United Nations conference on tourism.

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller on Monday addressed reports that a U.S. citizen died in Iran’s infamous Evin prison after his captors denied him medical care. Miller said the individual “is not a U.S. citizen to our knowledge.”

Secular protesters confronted religious Jews in Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Square on Yom Kippur on Sunday evening when the service included a separation between male and female worshippers.

Saudi Arabia announced this weekend that its gross domestic product had crossed the threshold of $1 trillion for the first time in its history, a milestone reached with the aid of high global oil prices and heavy government investment in tourism and entertainment.

Israelis will observe the holiday of Yom Kippur on Sunday evening and Monday in the shadow of the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, when Egypt and Syria attacked on the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.

Friday on FNC’s “Special Report,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted to recent remarks from Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) vowing his nation would reciprocate should Iran achieve nuclear armaments.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touted the prospect of a peace deal with Saudi Arabia and the advent of a “new Middle East” in his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday morning.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas unsurprisingly devoted much of his U.N. General Assembly address to denouncing the “Israeli occupation of our territory” and demanding more international pressure against Israel to make concessions.

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad is making his first visit to China since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011.

The U.S. and Israel could help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium as part of an agreement to achieve peace and normalize relations between the Jewish state and the leading Sunni Arab state.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CBS Mornings,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken responded to concerns that the money given to Iran by the prisoner swap will free up other funds to be spent on malign activity, such as supporting Russia’s war

President Joe Biden met Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York and offered a long-awaited White House visit by the year’s end.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) told Fox News’ Bret Baier on Wednesday that he wants to see a “good life” for Palestinians, but did not mention a “Palestinian state” as a condition for peace with Israel.

Trident DMG, a public relations firm based in Washington, DC, with links to the Democratic Party, would not deny Wednesday that it is involved in organizing protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the U.S.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), who authored a radical bill to “pack” the U.S. Supreme Court with four additional, liberal justices, has co-sponsored a resolution opposing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reforms.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s achingly long and rambling address to the U.N. General Assembly began with a lengthy sermon on the Muslim holy book, which eventually built up to him calling for action against Quran-burning by citizens of free nations.