2016 will be a year when Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad “will lock in significant political and military gains” due to the U.S.’s betrayal of anti-Assad rebels, Emile Hokayem, a Senior Fellow for Middle East Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, wrote Friday in Foreign Policy. Rebels in western Syria made significant advances last year...

A senior official from Fatah, the party led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, said Europe only paid attention to the conflict in Syria when it impacted the continent directly, and asked whether Palestinians needed to “hijack your planes and destroy your airports again” to make Europeans care about the...

Among the many eclectic gifts to be included in the Academy Awards’ gift basket for Oscar nominees is a $55,000 first-class trip to Israel. Hollywood’s top celebrities could stay in a luxury suite at one of the country’s best hotels, like the Waldorf Astoria in Jerusalem (the seventh-best hotel in the world...

The mother of one of two Israeli Arab girls who stabbed an Israeli security guard on Thursday apologized for her daughter’s actions, thanked the guard for subduing the pair without opening fire, and expressed wishes that he should have a long life, The Times of Israel reported on Friday. The...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with families of terrorists on Saturday, marking the second time he has done so this week. His office posted videos of him meeting with families of terrorists from Hebron on both his Arabic- and English-language websites and his YouTube channel. Abbas also met with...

The global social media platform Twitter announced that it suspended 125,00 accounts that were threatening or promoting terrorism, primarily on behalf of the Islamic State, since the middle of last year, CNBC reported Friday. The announcement is the first time that Twitter indicated the scope of terror-related activity on its network. A Brookings Institution study...