Middle East

Concerned citizens are protesting the detention of Iraqi visa-holders at JFK International Airport in New York while a Muslim congressman calls for “mass rallies” to protest Donald Trump’s ban on Syrian refugees and all travelers from certain Muslim-majority countries. RELATED: Trump brings shame to U.S. with policy based on fear Demonstrators massed outside the Queens […]

President Trump is ordering the Joint Chiefs of Staff to develop a plan within 30 days for how to defeat the Islamic State, and he wants the world to know that obliterating the terrorist army is a top priority for the U.S. said a senior administration official. Mr. Trump is expected to sign executive action

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Iran represents the “greatest danger” to Jewish people and Israel, expressing hope that President Trump would end the world’s “deafening silence” on the matter. “The greatest danger that we face, of hatred for the Jewish people and the Jewish state [referring to Israel] comes from Iran,” Netanyahu

President Trump’s embrace of Israel poses an unlikely dilemma for leaders of the Jewish state: They have to decide what they want from America, and on that question, there’s sharp disagreement. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moved to seize the Trump moment Tuesday by announcing that Israel plans to construct 2,500 housing units in West Bank

(Pertinent segment begins at 26:30) The damage caused by eight years of tensions between the White House and Israel has already been repaired, President Donald Trump claimed in a sit-down interview with Fox News Thursday evening. Speaking with Sean Hannity, President Trump said that Israel had been mistreated in the past, but that the US-Israel

When details leaked earlier this week about a spate of immigration-related executive orders from President Donald Trump, much public discussion focused on a 30-day ban on new visas for citizens from seven “terror-prone” countries. But the order signed this afternoon by Trump is actually more severe, increasing the ban to 90 days. And its effects

Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, took to Twitter on Saturday to endorse President Trump’s plan to build a wall on the United States’ border with Mexico. “President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel’s southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea,” Mr. Netanyahu tweeted. The Israeli wall

President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly seriously considering labeling the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, making business political or business contact with the international Sunni Islamist group a punishable offense under U.S. law. The move would be seen as a victory for conservatives who have long been suspicious of the organization’s foreign ties, which span