Middle East

Monument commemorating 16 fighters killed in 1948 incident to be unveiled October 27 in Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery By Times of Israel staff Alatalena Memorial in Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery, Tel Aviv (Avishai Teicher) A new monument to the victims of the 1948 Altalena incident, which cast a pall over the foundation of the Israel Defense Forces

“When America needs us, they call,” the woman tells me. “But will they forget what we have done when we need them?” Khota Kider is a commander of a female Kurdish brigade, and her question resonates here in Iraqi Kurdistan, on the front lines in the war against the Islamic State group (ISIS). A stateless

Iraqi government forces launched a US-backed offensive on Monday to drive the Islamic State (IS) group from the northern city of Mosul, a high-stakes battle to retake the militants’ last major stronghold in the country. Two years after the jihadists seized the city of 1.5 million people and declared a caliphate from there encompassing tracts

IDF rolls out new equipment for combat supply, repairs (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces is adding new logistics equipment to its stocks to improve operations in battle, particularly in supplying soldiers with water and other needs. The new equipment was tested and proved successful in an exercise the Armored Corps’ 7th Battalion