Tag: Defense

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu applauded US President Donald Trump on Friday evening for deciding not to recertify the nuclear deal with Iran, which he has been openly opposing since its inception in 2015.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that  in his vast experience with the United Nations, he never heard a “bolder” or “more courageous” address than President Trump’s speech to the international body earlier today.

NEW YORK — A former deputy director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) raised questions about the credibility of that agency’s inspection and verification system for Iran’s nuclear program as required under the U.S.-brokered international nuclear accord with Tehran.

NEW YORK — Speaking during a radio interview, former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton advocated for the Trump administration to withhold funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which ministers to Palestinian “refugees.”

Secretary of Defense General James Mattis has announced he is preserving some of the pro-transgender policies developed by former President Barack Obama until Pentagon deputies decide by March how to deal with serving soldiers who say they want to live as members of the other sex.

TEL AVIV – The Israeli defense establishment is concerned with the deteriorating health of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas following another spate in hospital last week, an analysis in the Haaretz daily said.

TEL AVIV — The New York Times and other news media outlets find it newsworthy that a top U.S. military commander, when asked a far-fetched hypothetical question about a nuclear strike on China, replied that he would comply with an order on

TEL AVIV – A overwhelming majority of Israelis (77%) believe that the government’s decision to remove metal detectors at the Temple Mount following rioting by Muslims signified capitulation on Israel’s part, according to a poll commissioned by Israel’s Channel 2.

TEL AVIV – Violent clashes with Israeli security forces erupted as thousands of Palestinian Muslims returned on Thursday to the Temple Mount for afternoon prayers at the Al Aqsa Mosque in celebration of Israel’s removal of all security measures installed at the site since a terror attack there saw two Israeli-Druze policemen murdered by three Arab gunmen two weeks ago.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah party on Saturday called for a campaign “to take control of the Al-Aqsa mosque.”

President Macron has made major spending promises after military chief General Pierre de Villiers resigned over cutbacks.

TEL AVIV – Jewish visitors were barred from entering the Temple Mount Wednesday morning after several were caught breaking the rules and praying with sacred books, police said.

TEL AVIV – Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein on Monday slammed his Jordanian counterpart for praising the Arab-Israeli terrorists who killed two police officers in Jerusalem, telling the Jordanian Speaker of the House to “shut up” if he didn’t have the gumption to condemn terrorism.

U.S. Naval officers have started testing a “super laser” in the Persian Gulf with the ability to shoot down a drone at the speed of light.

JERUSALEM — Muslim rioters engaged in violent clashes targeting Israeli security forces in Jerusalem’s Old City near a main entrance to the Temple Mount, with reports of at least 34 people injured, including 14 requiring hospitalization.

TEL AVIV — At least three people were injured on Monday when dozens of Palestinian Muslim worshippers clashed with Israeli security forces outside a main entrance to the Temple Mount.

TEL AVIV – The Jordanian parliament on Sunday praised the Temple Mount terrorists, less than 24 hours after King Abdullah II condemned the attack in a call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

TEL AVIV — Members of the Waqf, the Islamic custodians of the Temple Mount, protested new security measures put into place by Israel on Sunday to screen visitors to the sensitive spot that is considered Judaism’s holiest site.

JERUSALEM — In the face of highly distorted criticism against Israel from Arab states, the Trump White House on Saturday defended Israel’s security decision to temporarily close the Temple Mount to worshipers following a deadly Palestinian terrorist attack at the Mount.

Some 5,000 troops from NATO and partner countries are staging exercises in Romania watched by a senior NATO official and Romania’s president

HAMBURG, Germany — The United States and Russia struck an agreement Friday on a cease-fire in southwest Syria, crowning President Donald Trump’s first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is the first US-Russian effort under Trump’s presidency to stem Syria’s six-year civil war.

TEL AVIV — Amid a public relations crisis concerning the network’s Russia coverage, CNN on Tuesday night aired a one hour special documentary on allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election.

Senior Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have requested that the FBI and Department of Justice turn over applications for any warrants to monitor the communications of U.S. citizens associated with the investigation into alleged Russia interference in the

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday warmly greeted US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and chief Middle East adviser, Jared Kushner, in Jerusalem.

Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s top advisor and son-in-law, along with Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt, met on Wednesday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the president’s residence in Ramallah.

A Texas woman plans to undergo a total of eight plastic surgeries in order to more closely resemble former model and current First Lady of the United States Melania Trump.

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said Sunday it launched missiles into eastern Syria targeting Islamic State militants in response to an attack on Iran’s parliament and a shrine in Tehran, warning that it would similarly retaliate on anyone else carrying out attacks in Iran.

NEW YORK — Senate Republicans are eying the possibility of seeking testimony from former Attorney General Loretta Lynch over possible wrongdoing with regard to the FBI’s criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.

In the course of the investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, serious questions have been raised about the possibility that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch may have engaged in wrongdoing with regard to the FBI’s criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.

NEW YORK — Carter Page, the American oil industry consultant who was tangentially and briefly associated with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, slammed former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony Thursday as misleading, inaccurate, defamatory and “tantamount to the standards of high-school gossip.”