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A delegation representing the nascent government of Syria under the jihadist terror organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) began its first-ever international visit on Wednesday to Saudi Arabia, seeking financing and other support to rebuild the war-torn country.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in New York City on New Year’s Day for “intifada,” blocking Sixth Avenue in Manhattan just hours after a terror attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, and an explosion in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) announced Wednesday that it is banning the Qatar-based Al Jazeera network for “broadcasting inciteful content, spreading misinformation, and interfering in internal Palestinian affairs.”

The Iranian-backed terror group Hamas has decided to call President-elect Donald Trump’s bluff and abandon negotiations toward a hostage deal, waiting instead to see if it can get a better deal when he takes office January 20.

Saudi Arabia’s Neom project was meant to be the city of the future, the crowning achievement of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s “Saudi Vision 2030” plan to diversify the national economy away from oil. Unfortunately, the construction site for the city of the future has been plagued by complaints of gang rape, drinking, drugs, and attempted suicide by the 100,000 workers assembled there.

The population of Israel reached 10 million people during 2024, according to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics.

The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen fired another ballistic missile at Israel late Monday night, reminding Israelis that there is still unfinished business in the war that Hamas launched with the October 7, 2023, terror attack.

During an interview with ABC News on Monday, Israeli Consul General in New York Ofir Akunis stated that a ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas “was closer than ever ten days ago.” But Hamas remains the problem in

Palestinian journalist and student Shatha al-Sabbagh, 20, was killed on Sunday by Palestinian gunmen — and the world is ignoring her death, despite raising an outcry in 2022 when a Palestinian journalist was killed by Israel.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released video Monday that it said it recovered from Hamas terrorists in Gaza and, which shows Hamas planting a large bomb near a hospital.

Hamas and the United Nations (UN) are trading accusations of malfeasance after the looting of aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip on Monday led to the deaths of two people.

The head of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group now running Syria, told Saudi media on Sunday that he expects it could take the jihadists up to three years to write a new constitution and four to hold elections.

Israel sent condolences Monday to the American people and the family of former President Jimmy Carter on his passing Sunday, choosing to emphasize his work for peace and to overlook his later false claims that the Jewish state practices “apartheid.”

Germany’s federal prosecutor on Monday charged an Iraqi couple with enslavement, torture and war crimes.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Monday that it had killed ‘multiple’ terrorists overnight in ambushes that were set up to catch fighters attempting to flee the Jabaliya area in northern Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Sunday that no civilians were killed in a raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital, though 19 terrorists were killed and 240 arrests were made.

Israeli midwife Erga Froman talked to FOX News about how the October 7 Hamas terror attack took her from being an individual who had never fired a gun to one who carries a gun daily for self-defense. 

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has arrested 240 terror suspects at a hospital in Gaza, including the hospital director, after evacuating patients, in an operation that anti-Israel media had inflamed into a supposed attack on the facility.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo prostate removal surgery on Sunday after being diagnosed with a urinary tract infection, his office says.

Israel is preparing to submit a report to the United Nations later this week that describes the torture suffered by Israeli hostages abducted by Hamas to Gaza last October 7, including sexual assault and the “branding” of children.

A second Florida state lawmaker has defected from the Democrat Party in favor for the GOP this month, citing her former party’s inability to “unequivocally support Israel.”

The International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC) has written an open letter to Pope Francis criticizing his “one-sided perspective” in the Gaza conflict.

A U.S.-made-and-supplied Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense battery was reportedly used on Friday morning against a ballistic missile fired by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen at Israel.

South African ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool boasted last year that he owned a keffiyeh that had been signed by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

A Palestinian terrorist stabbed an 83-year-old woman to death outside her nursing home in Israel on Friday, police said.  The attack took place in the town of Herzliya on the Mediterranean coast outside Tel Aviv.

The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels fired yet another missile at central Israel early Friday morning, sending millions of Israelis to bomb shelters in the middle of the night, despite Thursday’s counterattack by Israeli forces in Yemen.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Ruby Chen, whose son, Itay Chen, is believed to have been killed in the October 7 attack, and, if so, has had his body held in Gaza, praised President-Elect Donald

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Kurdish militias in Syria on Wednesday to either lay down their arms or be “buried.” On the same day, the Turkish military said it killed 21 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and Iraq – including members of the People’s Defense Units (YPG), the leading Syrian Kurdish force allied with the United States against the Islamic State.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), was in the international airport in Sana’a, Yemen, on Thursday when it was attacked by the Israel Air Force (IAF).

Israeli Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Thursday, after the Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck multiple targets across Yemen, the fourth Israeli counterattack against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and the most ambitious thus far.

Protests broke out in Syria’s coastal cities after a video showing an Alawite shrine attacked by unknown militants appeared on social media.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck targets across Yemen on Thursday during the speech of Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, striking the port city of Hodeida and the international airport in the capital city of Sana’a in the interior.

Several dozen anti-Israel activists protested outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City on Christmas Day, continuing a practice in which they have targeted Christian symbols and the Christmas holiday over the last 15 months.

Syrian Kurds find themselves in a difficult position after the fall of dictator Bashar Assad, as Islamists seize power in Damascus and Turkey seeks to carve out a slice of Syrian territory along its border.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lit the first candle of Hanukkah in Jerusalem, Israel, on Wednesday evening, and warned Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who have been firing missiles and drones from Yemen that they are about to learn a lesson.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Wednesday that it had seized over 85,000 weapons that had been amassed by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization along Lebanon’s southern border with Israel.