Middle East

Official Hamas newspaper Palestine presented the terrorist who attempted to blow up the Jerusalem Light Rail with shrapnel pipe bombs as a man who acted in a noble and humanitarian manner. The terrorist was arrested by Light Rail security forces on July 17, when he was suspected him while he was waiting for a train

At least 30 people were killed and more than 94 injured after a bomb blast in Turkey’s Gaziantep city late Saturday. The explosion targeted an outdoor wedding in the southern city. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, is the “likely perpetrator” of the attack. The government

A rocket was shot into Sderot along the Gaza border. A Code Red siren was heard in the region. The IDF confirms that a rocket shot from Beit Hanoun in Gaza landed in Sderot. When police searched the area, they found a rocket had exploded between two houses in the city of Sderot. Police have

New photos released over the weekend show Islamic State forces fleeing the Syrian city of Manbij last week, as they surround themselves with human shields to prevent air strikes on the convoy. IS fighters had controlled the key city in northern Syria since early 2014, and the city had become a vital waypoint for the

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah denied on Friday that he has been hiding in an underground bunker for the past decade, since the 2006 Second Lebanon War. Speaking to Hezbollah”s television network, Al-Manar, Nasrallah also said that his group would defeat Israel if it were to start another war. “After the war I visited the Bekaa

The Turkish parliament has ratified a deal made earlier this year between Turkey and Israel ending their six-year long freeze in relations. Officially referred to as the Mavi Marmara Compensation Bill, it normalises ties that were broken when 10 Turks died after Israeli security forces stormed a ship carrying pro-Palestinian activists in 2010. “I don’t

The Foreign Ministry’s director general, Dore Gold, on Thursday banned all Israeli diplomats in Israel and abroad from holding contacts with Israeli journalists, in the wake of a Haaretz report that Arab states would not seek a vote regarding Israel’s nuclear arms at next month’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting in Vienna. Speaking on