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Jerusalem – Israel issued stark warnings on Sunday over Iran’s presence in neighbouring Syria after a confrontation threatened to open a new and unpredictable period in the country’s seven-year civil war.

TEL AVIV – Vice President Mike Pence was “tricking” the Arab nation by trying to smooth over “Trump’s despicable declaration” regarding Jerusalem, but it means nothing since “Israel will soon disappear” and the U.S. will lose global hegemony as long as “the stupid idiot” is in power, a former high-ranking minister in Jordan said following the vice president’s visit to Amman.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed this week that the Islamic State (ISIS) has killed three of its soldiers during clashes in Iran’s southwestern Fars Province.

ZARQA, Jordan — The United States delivered another two Blackhawk helicopters to key Arab ally Jordan on Sunday to help protect the kingdom’s borders and counter the threat from jihadists.

WASHINGTON — The United States has ordered more stringent inspections of air cargo from five Middle East countries, citing a June 2017 attempt in Australia to bring down a plane as evidence that terrorist groups continue to target civilian aviation.

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) administrator David Pekoske issued an emergency order Monday requiring stricter scrutiny of U.S.-bound cargo on flights from five majority Muslim countries.

Rather than stand up to Jordan’s King Abdullah, the Trump administration gives him a pass for everything. And it has been right to do so. Because it has no better option.

TEL AVIV – Welcoming Vice President Mike Pence to Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said it was the first time in history that he could stand side by side with another world leader and both could identify Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.

TEL AVIV — The Trump administration is for now withholding $45 million it pledged last month to the Palestinians as part of a “West Bank/Gaza Emergency Appeal” led by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which ministers to so-called Palestinian refugees, the U.S. State Department told reporters on Thursday.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A Lebanese military court handed down a six-month prison sentence to a journalist for presenting views critical of the army, a court official told AFP on Thursday.

TEL AVIV — The Trump administration on Tuesday informed the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which ministers to so-called Palestinian refugees, that it is providing tens of millions of dollars less than its annual pledge to the agency.

TEL AVIV — A spokesperson for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which ministers to so-called Palestinian refugees, told Breitbart Jerusalem that based on conversations with the Trump administration the U.N. agency believes the US has not made a decision yet about withholding funding to UNRWA.

Egypt, Jordan, Syria and the Palestinian territories – Israel’s nearest neighbours – are amongst the most dangerous places on earth for Christians, according to a new report.

Vice President Mike Pence will visit Egypt, Jordan, and Israel on a Middle East trip scheduled for January 19-23.

TEL AVIV – Jordan on Monday said it foiled a series of massive attacks planned by the Islamic State on shopping malls, religious and security buildings aimed at wreaking havoc in the country, its state media reported.

TEL AVIV — The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which ministers to so-called Palestinian refugees, would not comment when asked by Breitbart Jerusalem to provide the total number of Palestinian “refugees” that UNRWA allegedly services in Lebanon.

King Abdullah of Jordan reportedly fired his brothers Prince Feisal and Prince Ali and his cousin Prince Talal on Friday, relieving them of important military posts.

TEL AVIV — Sunni Arab countries are reportedly fuming at Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas over his reaction to the American recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, according to Israeli paper Israel Hayom.

A former Jordanian minister condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Israel as Jerusalem’s capital, but called on Jordanians to refrain from harming U.S. citizens, saying this would be precisely what the American and Israeli governments want.

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas was set to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo on Monday for discussions on the Trump administration’s Dec. 6 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Speaking from a meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo on Saturday, Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil called for “pre-emptive measures” against the U.S. decision to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. He said this should begin with “diplomatic measures” and then proceed to “political, then economic and financial sanctions” against the United States.

President Donald Trump held separate phone calls with several Middle Eastern leaders on Tuesday during which he reaffirmed the United States’ commitment to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and potential decisions regarding Jerusalem.

President Donald Trump took the first steps Tuesday towards moving the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, allowing the six-month waiver to the Jerusalem Embassy Act to expire, and contacting leaders in the Middle East to indicate his intentions.

During a sermon at the Al-Zaytoonah University Mosque in Jordan, on November 3, Dr. Ahmad Shahrouri reprimanded politicians as being “fraudulent” and said violence is the only thing that will resolve the struggle between the “Islamic Nation” and Zionists.

TEL AVIV – In what is fast becoming policy, Lebanon once again banned Gal Gadot from theaters, this time for reprising her role as Wonder Woman in the new movie, Justice League. The movie was barred by Lebanon’s Office of the

As the Islamic State loses its safe havens in Iraq and Syria, the U.S. military is looking to ensure the group does not find new ones from which they could plan and coordinate attacks on the U.S. and their allies.

Al-Qaeda jihadists have capitalized on the international community’s virtually single-minded focus to annihilate its rival the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) to establish dominance over other terrorist groups in the mainly southern part of Syria, a report by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) alleges.

TEL AVIV – Our martyrs will not stop fighting for Palestine until it is completely purged of the Jews, senior religious adviser to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared at a recent conference held in India.

The national security subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee held a congressional hearing Wednesday, chaired by Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), with testimony about whether the United States should move its Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – The United Nation’s global tourism body has appointed as its special ambassador a Jordanian businessman accused of anti-Semitism and peddling “solutions” to the Israeli-Arab conflict such as the ethnic cleansing of Jews.

AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan’s king has endorsed a fledgling Palestinian reconciliation agreement that is meant to end a decade-old political and ideological split between rivals Hamas and Fatah.

TEL AVIV — Jordanian authorities have decided not to open any official Hamas embassy or consulate in the kingdom, according to a report in the Jordanian Al Ghad newspaper.

Convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Yousef Odeh was greeted by relatives and radical supporters upon her arrival in Amman, Jordan, last week, and she received a warm send-off from her radical devotees in Chicago, Illinois, before she was deported and barred for life from re-entering the United States.

Jordan and Russia said Monday a ceasefire brokered with the United States for southern Syria was “successful” and the next step would be to set up a safe zone there.

Israel’s prime minister says the country is enjoying its greatest relations ever with the Arab world, even without a peace accord with the Palestinians.

French President Emmanuel Macron will include Israel on a whirlwind Middle East trip next spring, in a move designed to help regional peace initiatives and promote a two-state solution.