The Dutch government has restored the pension benefits of a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor whose payments were cut by 35% because she moved to the West Bank to be near her son, The Jerusalem Post reported today. But the government said that it will issue a new policy that could penalize...

An Iranian airline that has been sanctioned due to ties with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has purchased nine planes in violation of existing sanctions, the Financial Times reported today. According to the report, the airline, Mahan Air, purchased the planes from European companies using a front company. The Financial Times reported that...

Israel purchased four corvette class warships from Germany with an eye towards upgrading its navy and its ability to protect its natural gas fields in the Mediterranean Sea, the Associated Press reported today. The purchase of the ships was announced Monday in Tel Aviv, as the countries were marking 50 years...

President Barack Obama’s efforts to gain support for the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran suffered a blow when it was confirmed Sunday that King Salman, the newly-crowned ruler of Saudi Arabia, would not be attending this week’s planned summit between the president and the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC),...

The deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that he would “welcome war” with the United States, The Times of Israel reported today. Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, said in an interview on state-run television that a battle with the...

After an agreement by the Danish shipping company Maersk to pay a settlement that has been called a “ransom” by a legal scholar, Iran has released the Maersk Tigris, the cargo ship it seized last month in an international shipping lane, The New York Times reported today. The Maersk Line,...