Five years into the Syrian civil war, Qutaiba Idlbi, a native of Damascus, recalled a question he first heard at the onset of the revolution. “Why should we go out to the streets if we know that Assad is going to shoot unarmed people?” Idlbi remembered that question, raised by...

Hamas, the Iran-backed terror group that controls the Gaza Strip, is “exploiting the humanitarian crisis in the Strip to pad its own coffers,” Times of Israel Palestinian affairs correspondent Avi Issacharoff reported on Saturday. A new neighborhood in Gaza consisting of 1,040 housing units, called “Hamad City” in honor of the...

The candor President Barack Obama displayed in the lengthy Atlantic article about his foreign policy “is destabilizing,” influential Washington Post columnist David Ignatius wrote in a column on Tuesday. Ignatius’s criticism of Obama is particularly notable, as he has generally been supportive of Obama’s foreign policy, including the nuclear deal...

Three Kurdish-led territories in northern Syria are expected to imminently announce a federal system, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The move will “[widen] the framework of self-administration which the Kurds and others have formed,” according to Idris Nassan, a representative of Kobani’s foreign affairs department. Kobani, Jazeera, and Afrin are the three regions that...

A U.S. District Court in New York ordered Iran last Wednesday to pay approximately $10.5 billion total to the families of 9/11 victims and to insurance companies who paid claims resulting from damages incurred during the attacks. Documents related to the lawsuit allege that some of the 9/11 hijackers visited Iran prior...

Axis Tel Aviv began on Tuesday at the Peres Center for Peace, and the local high-tech scene can expect new investing announcements at the end of the two-day event. The conference will display 25 of Israel’s most promising startups for venture capitalists and corporate investors from abroad. “Israel’s incredible advancement and innovation...