Jason Rezaian, the Tehran bureau chief for The Washington Post who has been imprisoned for ten months, will stand trial in Iran for espionage beginning next week, Sky News reported today. State television said the first session of the trial of 39-year-old Jason Rezaian will be held on Tuesday. Two other...

Decrying “resurgent” anti-Semitism globally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that modern anti-Semitism primarily targets Israel at the fifth Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism hosted by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. “Today there is no doubt that we are living in an age of...

Iran has been forcing Afghan refugees to fight for the beleaguered regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Der Spiegel reported Monday. In order to prevent the collapse of Syrian government forces, experienced units from the Lebanese militia Hezbollah began fighting for Assad as early as 2012. Later, they were joined by Iranians, Iraqis,...

Iran rejected criticism of its use of the death penalty made by United Nations officials last week, calling it a “downright lie,” The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday. The criticism comes amid an increase in executions in Iran as well as the arrest of a prominent anti-death penalty activist. Foreign Ministry...

Israel has treated 1,600 victims of Syria’s civil war over the last two years, according to a report written by Ron Ben-Yishai for Ynet. Ben-Yishai was on the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights and reported on the transfer of an injured fighter into Israel for treatment. The recent escalation in fighting has led...

A 90-year-old Dutch Holocaust survivor who recently moved to a West Bank settlement near Modi’in to be near her son had her pension check cut by more than a third by the Dutch government, The Times of Israel reported Friday. The woman, a 90-year-old Dutch Holocaust survivor identified in the report...