Researchers from the Technion and Harvard are offering a new theory on how Parkinson’s disease develops that could change the way the neurological disease is treated. Associate Professor Simone Engelender of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and her colleague Ole Isacson at Harvard Medical School say the toxic protein behind...

A human rights group has determined that the Syrian government deliberately diverted international aid in order to starve besieged populations, ABC News reported Tuesday. In its new report Access Denied, Physicians for Human Rights accused the Iran-backed regime of President Bashar al-Assad from blocking United Nations access to needy Syrian civilians and...

The United States Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that it filed an extradition request with Jordan for a Palestinian terrorist who helped carry out the 2001 Sbarro massacre in Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Post reported. The subject of the request, Ahlam Tamimi, has previously admitted to picking the location for the...

Iran established underground weapon-making factories in Lebanon to help Hezbollah internally develop its arsenal, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported Monday. The al-Jarida newspaper reported that a deputy head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has disclosed the existence of the underground facilities, which have been operating for the past three months. The factories can...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met for five hours on Monday with Jason Greenblatt, a lawyer who was appointed chief negotiator for international affairs by President Donald Trump. According to a statement from the prime minister’s office, Netanyahu expressed his interest in working with the Trump administration to “advance a...

An Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite militia announced the creation of a “Golan Liberation Brigade” this week, Amir Toumaj reported in the Long War Journal. Called Harakat al-Nujaba (Movement of the Noble), the militia is an offshoot of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq and Kata’ib Hezbollah, which have received financing, weapons, and training from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary...