Middle East

A Palestinian girl whose bicycle was taken and broken by Border Police officers earlier this month received a new bicycle on Wednesday that had been donated by an Israeli man, peace activist Lonny Baskin told The Times of Israel. On August 2, two border guards were caught on film taking 8-year-old Anwar Burqan’s bicycle and

Istanbul (dpa) – A car bomb and a roadside explosion killed nine members of Turkey’s security forces on Thursday and injured more than 200, the Dogan news agency reported, as a wave of such attacks takes place across the restive south-east in recent days. The first attack, a car bomb in the eastern Elazig province

A Jewish woman was reunited this week with her family in the town of Patish in southern Israel after she fled northern Iraq, following threats by her husband to sell her into slavery with the ISIS terror organization. According to a report by Channel 2, the woman, a member of the Avrahami family, was married

Prior to his appointment to the Defense Ministry, Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman boasted that if made Defense Minister, he would “crush the terror wave” and restore security to Israel. On Wednesday evening Liberman presented the first detailed plan towards that goal since assuming office in June. The outline follows a carrot-and-stick approach to terror

Hezbollah officials are continuing to threaten Israel, the latest threat coming by Lebanese cleric Hashem Safieddine, head of the terrorist’s group executive council. In a television interview with the Al-Mayadeen television network, dated August 8 and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Safieddine said that “Israel is closer than ever before to

Turkish parliament set to approve normalization deal with Israel (JNS.org) Turkey on Wednesday submitted to its parliament for its approval a deal to normalize relations with Israel that would end a six-year rift between the former Middle East allies. According to the text of the submitted agreement, Israel will pay Turkey $20 million in compensation

Syrian opposition activists have released haunting footage showing a young boy rescued from the rubble in the aftermath of a devastating air strike in Aleppo. The image of the stunned and weary looking boy, sitting in an orange chair inside an ambulance covered in dust and with blood on his face, encapsulates the horrors inflicted

Like teenagers anywhere, 17-year-old Amine Demirtas had a cellphone and loved to chat and message with friends. But when her family found out, her brother brutally killed her. Women activists across Turkey are furious by the latest incident of violence against women. Earlier this month, police charged Demirtas’ brother, 29-year-old Kasim Demirtas, with torturing his

A group of doctors in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo have appealed to President Barack Obama for help. In an open letter, they told the US president, “We don’t need tears, we need action.” The doctors are in the eastern part of the ancient city, in an area controlled by rebels. One of the