Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr arranged a sizable anti-American demonstration in Baghdad on Friday, putting his followers on the streets alongside ongoing protests against corruption and the excessive political influence of Iran.
PolicyEngage, a company that provides digital services to political organizations, has refused to do business with author and terrorism expert Brigitte Gabriel’s organization, ACT for America, because of one of its other clients — the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
A senior Iranian political strategist and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officer Hassan Abbasi suggested in a video surfacing Thursday taking Americans hostage and demanding ransoms to make up the losses caused by U.S. economic sanctions.
JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main challenger, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, will go to the White House next week to discuss “regional prospects for peace,” Vice President Mike Pence said from the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem Thursday.
TEL AVIV – A senior Iranian chess official is afraid to return to her home country after photos of her without a headscarf while at a tournament in Shanghai caused an outcry back home.
JERUSALEM – Russian President on Thursday reassured the mother of an Israeli-American backpacker currently in a Russian prison on drug smuggling charges that her daughter would be released. Putin met with Yaffa Issachar and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the
Vice President Mike Pence’s office strongly rejected the online suggestion Prince Charles had “snubbed” him Thursday at the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem.
The German government Wednesday handed three works of art stolen during the Nazi occupation of France back to descendants of their original owner, the collector and Jewish lawyer Armand Dorville.
TEL AVIV – A top ranking Saudi cleric will visit Auschwitz on Thursday in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of its liberation, as well as meet with Holocaust survivors at a Polish synagogue.
JERUSALEM – A heated exchange took place between France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Israeli security at a church in Jerusalem’s Old City Wednesday, with the French leader telling personnel to leave the holy site because “it’s France here.”
Iran’s state-run PressTV media outlet repeated its claims on Wednesday of widespread American casualties after Tehran launched a ballistic missile assault on Iraqi airbases this month, accusing the Pentagon of “taking advantage” of the Senate impeachment trial to hide the injuries.
Jerusalem — Israel will lobby key leaders at this week’s 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on what it considers one of the gravest modern threats to the Jewish people: Iran.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday rallied against antisemitism, saying it “haunts our present time”, during a visit to Jerusalem to commemorate Holocaust victims.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Netanyahu on Tuesday said with the help of the Trump administration, he would extend Israeli sovereignty over all settlements in the West Bank settlements.
Any suggestion Saudi Arabia was in involved in the phone hacking of Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos was dismissed as “absurd” late Tuesday by the country’s embassy in Washington.
JERUSALEM – Thousands of police and counter-terrorism officers will be deployed throughout Jerusalem this week as nearly 50 world leaders will gather in Jerusalem to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The new leader of the Islamic State has reportedly been identified by multiple intelligence services as Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi, a founding member of the terror state who played a major role in the oppression and near-genocide of the Yazidis.
Speaking in the Iranian parliament on Tuesday, lawmaker Ahmad Hamzeh offered a $3 million cash reward “on behalf of the people of Kerman province” to anyone who kills U.S. President Donald Trump. Kerman, which Hamzeh represents, is the hometown of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the top Iranian terrorist mastermind who was eliminated by a U.S. airstrike in December.
The Civil Aviation Organization of Iran published a report on Tuesday on its government shooting down a Ukrainian passenger jet this month admitting that Tehran does not have the technology to retrieve information on the plane’s black boxes and that it requested help from the United States.
Iranian opposition leaders said on Monday that protests against the regime are ongoing, with helpful assistance from U.S. initiatives to provide hardware and software that allows Iranians to bypass Internet censorship from their repressive government.
The governments of Colombia, Honduras, and Guatemala joined Argentina on Monday in designating the Iranian proxy group Hezbollah a terrorist organization, a reflection of its growing influence in neighboring Venezuela.
Warren’s son-in-law, with whom she is close, has troubling ties to the Iranian regime, according to a new book by Peter Schweizer.
Incensed Iraqi Kurdish officials last week hit back at taunts from Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, who lashed out at former Iraqi Kurdistan Region (KRG) President Masoud Barzani and Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
TEL AVIV – Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew a comparison between the Holocaust and Iran’s nuclear program.
The government of Norway has collapsed following a dispute over the return of a woman who is suspected of joining the terrorist group ISIS.
JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main challenger Benny Gantz on Saturday unveiled a new slogan for his Blue and White party bearing a striking resemblance to former president Barack Obama’s “Forward” campaign for his 2012 reelection.
Police clashed with protesters in Baghdad on Monday after a few comparatively quiet days, resulting in 14 security troops suffering injuries from thrown rocks and complaints of excessive force leveled against police by the protesters.
Protests in Lebanon turned violent again over the weekend, with over 400 injuries reported. There were several claims of security forces using live ammunition against protesters in addition to water cannons and tear gas.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Monday that claims of nuclear deal violations by European participants in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) are groundless and Tehran still respects the deal, despite having systematically abrogated most of its terms in an effort to squeeze more financial concessions out of the Europeans.
Would President Trump’s idea of expanding the NATO alliance to include the Middle East lead to peace and fewer U.S. troops in the region?
