The commander of Lebanon’s armed forces instructed his troops, which are celebrating recent victories against jihadi groups on the country’s restive eastern border with Syria, to be fully ready to deal with a potential attack from Israel. On the eve of the country’s 74th anniversary of independence from France, the Lebanese military commander, Joseph Aoun, […]
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Middle EastBy Jacob Magid The IDF rescued three Israelis who illegally entered the West Bank Palestinian city of Nablus late Tuesday night after their car was stolen and set ablaze, the army said. The civilians were there in violation of military law prohibiting Israelis from entering into Palestinian-controlled Area A. The car theft and arson attack
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Middle EastTwo ancient sites in Saudi Arabia have revealed an unexpected surprise, a new paper reports – the oldest known recording of dogs put on a leash. The 8,000-year-old images are etched into rock and depict humans and dogs working together in hunts before the widespread emergence of agriculture. The carvings were discovered by Maria Guagnin,
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Middle EastFrance and Egypt are trying to shape a regional accommodation between Iran and Saudi Arabia in a bid to prevent Lebanon from being destabilized. Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri was to meet Tuesday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo before heading back Wednesday to Beirut — the first time he will have set
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Middle EastThe White House said President Donald Trump talked with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, a day after the Russian leader held discussions with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad about a political resolution to end nearly seven years of fighting in Syria. Trump and Putin spoke informally several times last week when they both were attending
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International, Middle East, USARightist Israeli politicians and angry members of the public lashed out at President Reuven Rivlin Monday over his refusal to pardon a soldier jailed for shooting dead a prone Palestinian assailant. Rivlin’s decision not to intervene in the case of Elor Azaria’s manslaughter conviction was the latest chapter in a story that has divided Israel
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Middle EastHezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah admitted on Monday that the terrorist group had transferred advanced weapons to Gaza, reports Haaretz. The head of the Lebanese group claimed that Hezbollah”s arsenal of weapons was a force of “security and stability” in Lebanon in the face of these threats. He added that Hezbollah “transferred arms, including Kornet missiles,
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Middle EastSaudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir denied on Monday that his country is getting closer to Israel. His comments came in an interview with the Egyptian CBC television network and were translated by Yediot Aharonot. “There are no relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel. There is the Arab peace initiative that constitutes the road map to
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Middle EastHezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has rejected claims made by Arab foreign ministers that the Lebanese group is arming rebels in Yemen. In a televised speech on Monday from Beirut, Nasrallah, whose Shia group is represented in the Lebanese parliament and has a strong military wing, called the claims made at the previous day’s Arab League
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Middle EastBy Shoshanna Solomon The University of Juba, in South Sudan, has joined IsraAID, an Israel-based humanitarian non-governmental organization, and other partners to set up a first center for the studies of science and technology in the East-Central African state. The Center for Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) will train South Sudanese youth to become
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International, Middle EastTransportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) responded on Monday to the Trump administration”s proposed peace plan, as reported on the weekend by Hahadashot (formerly Channel 2 News). Katz spoke at a conference hosted by Arutz Sheva and the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce held at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. “Less than a
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Middle East, USA[youtube:2035177] Anthony Scaramucci, who has served as White House Communications Director for the Trump Administration, arrived in Israel on Sunday night, and is spending several days in Jerusalem. After landing, he toured the Western Wall and the Old City. This morning (Monday) he arrived at Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem. Tonight he is slated to
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Middle East, USABy Irina Nevzlin and Andrew H. Tisch In March of this year, a small group of Jewish philanthropists, activists and thinkers from Israel and around the world met at the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv. The conclusions that followed, summarized below, will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the opinion
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International, Middle East, USASDE BOKER, Israel (Press Release) – While turkeys at Thanksgiving are an age-old custom, a new study shows that turkey excrement may have a future as a fuel for heat and electricity. Treated excrement from turkeys, chickens and other poultry, when converted to combustible solid biomass fuel, could replace approximately 10 percent of coal used
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