Middle East

Ramallah/Tel Aviv (dpa) – A leading figure in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Friday warned against the relocation of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The warning came after David Friedman, recently picked as future ambassador to Israel by US president-elect Donald Trump, said he expected to be based in […]

Iran”s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Wednesday that Israel could be destroyed within 25 years through a united “Palestinian struggle”, PressTV reports. Speaking during a meeting with the head of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group, Ramadan Abdullah Shalah, Khamenei praised the Palestinians” motivations and added, “The only way to liberate the holy city

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday said he plans to nominate as ambassador to Israel his lawyer, a hard-liner on the Middle East who has voiced opposition to decades of U.S. policy in the region. David Friedman, who served as one of Trump’s main advisers on Israel during the campaign, vowed to perform as

For two days and two nights in December, the Israelis and their American friends in Washington, D.C., convened among the carolers and Christmas trees at a luxury hotel near the White House. It was supposed to be Haim Saban’s political bar mitzvah, the ultimate celebration of his president-making powers. In 2016, the billionaire emerged as

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is horrified by the wanton destruction of Aleppo, Syria’s third largest city, by the Bashar al-Assad regime, Russia and Iran. “For more than five-and-a-half years, Syrian President Assad has waged a ruthless war against his own people, leaving well over 500,000 dead, millions displaced within

The White House announced Thursday that President Barack Obama would not sign a bill passed last month that extended U.S. sanctions on Iran for a decade but acknowledged the law would go through anyway. White House spokesman Eric Schultz had previously indicated that Obama would likely sign the bill, which would not affect the multilateral