A prominent Iranian ayatollah condemned the state-sponsored executions of thousands of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 as “the biggest crime in the Islamic Republic,” according to an audio recording recently released by his family, The Guardian reported on Thursday. The publication of the recording has prompted survivors and relatives of those killed...

The announcement last week by Israeli authorities that the top Gaza official of the Christian charity World Vision was being charged with funneling aid money to the terrorist group Hamas has highlighted the need for NGOs operating in terror-controlled areas to have “transparency, accountability and detailed guidelines,” Gerald Steinberg argued in a Wall Street...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas once again turned down an offer to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for peace talks, the Palestinian newspaper Al Quds reported on Wednesday. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly made the offer to Abbas when the two met in Paris last month....

A leader of the Israeli disaster relief organization IsraAID will be presented with the annual Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award next month in recognition of the group’s work aiding people affected by natural disasters and other emergencies around the world. IsraAID chief operation officer Navonel Glick will be one of six under-30 recipients of the award...

Eight Palestinians were injured in the collapse of a terror tunnel, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. This is the fourth reported tunnel collapse this month. Palestinian media reported that the tunnel collapsed in the Shuja’yya neighborhood of Gaza City, which borders Israel. None of the eight were seriously injured, a Health Ministry spokesman said. It is...

ISIS-affiliated fighters in Egypt’s Sinai Desert are digging up Nazi munitions that were buried in the sand during World War II and using them as material for bombs and other weapons, Newsweek reported Wednesday. An estimated 17 million land mines are buried in northwest Egypt near the site of the 1942 Battle of El Alamein. Though Egypt has been...