Middle East

The war in Syria has left more than 465,000 people dead or missing, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported Monday. The U.K.-based monitoring group, which uses a network of sources on the ground in Syria, said that 321,000 people, including 96,000 civilians, had died as a result of the conflict since it began

‘Alongside every great male fighter is a wonderful female fighter,’ president tells security forces at Ofer Checkpoint By Times of Israel staff President Reuven Rivlin gives Purim packages (Mishloach Manot) to members of the Israeli security forcesguarding at the Ofer checkpoint on March 12, 2017. (Mark Neyman/GPO) President Reuven Rivlin handed out treats to members

Israel arrests members of Hamas terror cells in Judea and Samaria (JNS.org) Israel’s Shin Bet security agency Sunday announced the arrest of two Palestinian men who had planned to carry out terror attacks on behalf of Hamas in Judea and Samaria. A joint operation between the Shin Bet and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) led to

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas held several meetings with terrorists and their families. According to MEMRI researchers, Abbas on March 5 held a meeting with the family of Muhammad al-Jaled, a terrorist who was was eliminated in February. Al-Jaled was shot while attempting to carry out a terror attack at the Huwara Checkpoint in November.

MK Oren Hazan (Likud) demanded Jordanian authorities re-arrest freed terrorist Ahmed Daqamseh for incitement against Jews. Daqamseh killed seven Israeli schoolgirls in a terror attack in 1997, and was freed on Sunday – five years early. Upon his release, he said, “The Israelis are the human waste which the nations of the world vomited up