Category: 3. Middle East

A discovery by Prof. Ami Aronheim and his team at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology shows that the growth of cancerous tumors may actually combat cardiac dysfunction and reduce fibrosis, the scarring process that stiffens the…

An explosion killed at least eight worshippers at a mosque in a predominantly Alawite area of Syria’s Homs on Friday, state media said, with an Islamist militant group claiming responsibility.

The attack during Friday prayers is the latest on the…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recognized Somaliland on Friday, making Israel the first country to do so and prompting a strong rebuke from Turkey.

What happened: Netanyahu said Israel and Somaliland signed a “joint and mutual…

A Palestinian terrorist from the West Bank killed two people and wounded two others in a stabbing and car-ramming rampage in northern Israel on Friday before being shot and injured by a passerby, authorities said.

The attack began shortly…

An explosion has killed at least eight people and injured 18 others during Friday prayers inside a mosque in the Syrian city of Homs, the health ministry has said.

Pictures from Syria’s state-run news agency, Sana, show the inside of the Imam Ali…

(Fixes spelling in “breakaway” in headline)

Dec 26 (Reuters) – Israel has recognised Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, as an “independent and sovereign state,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday, making Israel the…

JERUSALEM, Dec 26 (Reuters) – A Palestinian assailant ran over a man and stabbed a woman and killed them both in northern Israel on Friday, Israeli emergency services said.

The assailant, from the occupied West Bank, was shot and wounded by a…