Middle East

Iraqi Kurdish forces on Sunday captured a dozen villages from the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) east of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in a series of “shaping operations” aimed at tightening the noose on the radical Islamist group’s grand prize. Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, acts as ISIS’s de-facto capital in Iraq. It seized

Facebook reportedly closed the account of Hamas leader Ismail Radwan on Facebook, in addition Sami Abu Zuhri, Fawzi Barhoum and Salah Bardawil, in the midst of municipal Gazan election season. Hamas leaders frequently use their social media accounts to garner support for terrorism and incitement to terror. Last week, Facebook closed the account of Islamic

Israeli troops demolished overnight Sunday the home of a Palestinian terrorist who stabbed to death a 13-year-old Israeli girl in June. A large military force, including members of the Combat Engineering Corps, arrived in the West Bank village of Bani Na’im, outside Hebron, in the early hours of Monday morning to raze the family home

An electrical fire recently broke out at the historic Al-Jazzar mosque, located in the northern Israeli city of Acre. The damage to the centuries-old structure was extensive, but the community’s show of unity in dealing with the blaze’s aftermath is heartening. Such unity in the wake of this tragedy casts a glimmer of hope illuminating

Leaked document shows George Soros donated to anti-Israel causes (JNS.org) The website DC Leaks has released a confidential report composed of documents showing that Jewish Hungarian-American business magnate George Soros has contributed a large amount of funds to anti-Israel causes. The documents were accessed after Soros’s company was hacked as part of the larger hack

An epic battle continues for control of Syria’s largest city, once a rival of Cairo and Istanbul as a center of urban culture and civilization in the Middle East. Aleppo, once the Western terminus of the Silk Road from China, is swiftly becoming the latest symbol of man’s inhumanity to man. Fifteen physicians still working

MK Michal Rozin (Meretz), previously the head of the Special Committee on Foreign Workers, attacked the decision of Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman to stop the volunteer work of IDF soldiers with children of infiltrators and foreign workers in South Tel Aviv. “The Minister of Defense is again taking advantage of his position to enforce his