MidEast

An ongoing investigation into a “massive” international drug trafficking and money laundering operation run by the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah has resulted in several arrests, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced in a statement released on Monday. The DEA, a division of the United States Department of Justice, announced the arrests...

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Critics took to Twitter to blast Alex Salmond, the former first minister of Scotland and currently the United Kingdom’s representative to the European Commission, for saying that it was “inappropriate” for Israel to criticize Europe’s welcome of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a Holocaust commemoration event. Salmond, who recently returned from...

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The Palestinian Authority’s police force praised an officer who carried out a shooting attack that wounded three Israeli soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint near Beit El on Sunday. “With great pride, the members of the Palestinian police eulogize the brave martyrdom of their colleague, Master Sergeant Amjad Sukkari, ‘Abu Omar’,...

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The commander of Iran’s elite extraterritorial navy proclaimed in a session at the Iranian parliament Monday that his forces “extracted a lot of information from the confiscated cell phones and laptops” from U.S. Navy sailors it detained last month. Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) navy, said that...

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An Israeli minister gave an interview to a Saudi online newspaper over the weekend, underscoring the warming ties between Israel and the Arab world in the wake of the Iranian nuclear deal last year. Israeli Minister of Immigrant Absorption Ze’ev Elkin told a reporter from the Saudi website Elaph that Israel and the...

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Experts blasted a major German newspaper’s recent usage of Nazi-like terminology to blame Israel for Palestinian terrorist attacks, Benjamin Weinthal reported Saturday in The Jerusalem Post. Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), Germany’s largest broadsheet, recently published an article titled “Israel suffers for its cycle of revenge” by its Jerusalem correspondent Peter Münch. The...

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