Category: 3. Middle East

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the army to step up its operations in the occupied West Bank on Friday as he paid a rare visit to troops in the territory that drew Palestinian condemnation.

Netanyahu’s visit to Tulkarem refugee…

German police announced on Friday that they arrested a Russian national suspected of planning a “politically motivated” attack in Berlin reportedly targeting the Israeli Embassy.  

Syria’s tiny Jewish community and Syrian Jews abroad are trying to build bridges after Bashar al-Assad’s ouster in the hope of reviving their ancient heritage before the community dies out.

This week, a small number of Jews living in Damascus,…

Arab leaders met in Riyadh on Friday to craft a plan for Gaza’s post-war reconstruction to counter Donald Trump’s proposal for the United States to take over the territory without its Palestinian inhabitants.

Trump’s plan has united Arab states in…

The daughter of murdered British aid worker this week at the Paris trial of two of his presumed Islamic State group jailers recounted her anguish after her father went missing in war-torn Syria in 2013.

In a Paris court on Thursday, Bethany…

Argentina announced two days of national mourning on Thursday after the bodies of two Israeli Argentine children who had been taken hostage by Hamas were handed over by the group.

Hamas delivered the bodies of four hostages on Thursday, three of…