Middle East

Supporters of Elor Azaria detained for disturbing the peace during protest outside President’s Residence By Times of Israel staff Supporters of Elor Azaria protest outside military court in Tel Aviv on January 4, 2017. ( Tomer Neuberg/Flash90) Police overnight Saturday arrested seven people for disturbing the peace during an illegal demonstration in support of IDF […]

A Palestinian rammed his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers on a popular promenade in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four people and injuring about 15 others in a deliberate attack, police and emergency services said. Police identified the driver as a Palestinian from Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem and said he was shot dead. A dozen

Around 1,500 Arabs attended on Saturday the funerals of two terrorists who were killed by IDF troops last year. The funerals were held in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Hevron. The terrorists,Hatem Shaludi, 25, and Mohammed Rajabi, 16, were shot dead after carrying out separate stabbing attacks against IDF soldiers in Hevron. Mourners attending the

With Gaza rulers fighting Salafists, including IS, a partial reconciliation sees Cairo opening a border crossing to allow goods into the Strip By Avi Issacharoff High-ranking Israeli officials and journalists alike have occasionally found themselves amazed at the waves of curses and vicious invective that Egyptian officials unleash when asked for their views on Hamas.

Cairo (dpa) – Some 19 people were killed and dozens more injured in a car bomb attack Saturday in the northern Syrian town of A’zaz, near a border crossing with Turkey, a monitoring group said. The blast hit the rebel-held town’s Islamic law court, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated. An official in a