MidEast

Nineteen Yemeni Jews, among the last of their community living in that war-torn country, arrived in Israel after a secret rescue mission on Sunday night. The rescue of the Jews, who have been increasingly imperiled by the civil war in the country and the rise of anti-Semitic jihadi groups, was reportedly coordinated...

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The Justice Department announced criminal conspiracy charges against three current or former members of the Iran-backed hacking group Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. Two of the suspects– Ahmad Umar Agha, 22, and Firas Dardar, 27– are believed to be in Syria. They were charged with...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday in a video address at the AIPAC Policy Conference that given the UN’s “shameful record” of bias against Israel, the United States must reject any UN-backed plan to impose a negotiation framework for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. Netanyahu pointed out that Israel is the only country that is “permanently...

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In the absence of action by the United Nations Security Council, the United States must impose unilateral sanctions on Iran for its illicit ballistic missile tests in October, Democratic congressmen Joseph Kennedy (D – R.I.) and Ted Deutch (D – Fla.) wrote in an op-ed published Friday in The Times...

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The Middle East, as we know it, is crumbling. Civil wars rage across the region, millions have become refugees, and hundreds of thousands are dead. Borders that have existed for over a century are ripe for reshaping. All of this has given rise to a major threat to Western democracies: The Islamic State. ISIS has filled...

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is planning to build a statue commemorating its January capture of ten American sailors, Stars and Stripes reported on Monday. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter called the U.S. service members’ detainment and treatment by Iran “outrageous” and “inconsistent with international law” last week. “There are...

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