Middle East

By Alexander Fulbright Police on Sunday morning detained two confidants of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for interrogation in the investigation into suspected corruption in the purchase of naval vessels from a German shipbuilder. While police did not reveal the identities of the two, multiple reports named one of them as David Shimron, Netanyahu’s cousin and

By Dov Lieber The Palestinian Authority Foreign Ministry on Saturday claimed the Israeli government was supporting terrorist groups that attacked a Druze town in southern Syria, but then reversed its policy after the Druze community in Israel protested. In a highly unusual move, Israel on Friday said it would intervene in the Syrian Civil War

Saudi Arabia and its allied forces launched a new wave of airstrikes on targets in neighboring Yemen, where Riyadh has been leading a military alliance against Iran-backed Shi’ite Houthi militant forces since March 2015. Alhurra reported the airstrikes targeted the National Security building and the Ministry of Interior and other positions Sunday in the capital,

A day after Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri unexpectedly resigned saying he feared for his life, Education Minister Marwan Hamade told FRANCE 24 his country is facing an identity crisis, caught between Saudi Arabia and Iran. In announcing his resignation on Saturday from the Saudi capital Riyadh, Hariri accused Iran and Hezbollah – Tehran’s ally

By Judah Ari Gross Israel has recovered the bodies of five Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists that were buried when the army destroyed a Gazan attack tunnel that crossed into Israeli territory last week, the IDF announced on Sunday. “During the past few days, the Southern Command and Gaza Division have been operating to finalize the

Saudi Arabia arrested 11 princes, including a prominent billionaire, and dozens of current and former ministers, reports said, in a sweeping crackdown as the kingdom’s young crown prince consolidates power. Separately, the head of the Saudi National Guard, once a leading contender to the throne, as well as the navy chief and the economy minister

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