MidEast

Argentina’s new justice minister, Germán Garavano, announced that he will not renew a controversial agreement with Iran to jointly investigate the 1994 AMIA community center bombing, The New York Times reported on Saturday. The deal was originally signed by the government of former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Although a court last...

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In the wake of the recent International Atomic Energy Agency’s report confirming that Iran was covertly working to develop a nuclear bomb as late as 2009, the U.S. and its partners in the nuclear deal must keep sanctions in place until the regime “[fills] in the remaining blanks on its weapons...

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Iran has been bolstering the beleaguered regime of its ally, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, by recruiting Pakistani Shiites to fight against anti-Assad insurgents, Reuters reported Friday. Two men from the Zeinabiyoun, a unit of Pakistani Shiite fighters, were killed fighting in Syria last month. A Twitter account associated with the group has posted pictures of...

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Arab-Israeli member of Knesset Ayman Odeh refused to meet with an umbrella group of major Jewish-American organizations because it shares office space with the Jewish Agency, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported on Thursday. Odeh was set to address the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations during his week-long visit to the U.S., which...

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A senior U.S. treasury official revealed that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has been the biggest buyer of oil from ISIS, with the terror group making over $500 million from oil sales to his regime and others, Reuters reported on Thursday. “[ISIS] is selling a great deal of oil to the Assad regime,” Adam Szubin, the acting...

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Talkitt, an Israeli-made technology from VoiceITT that translates unintelligible pronunciation from any language into understandable speech, won first prize in the fourth annual international Medica medical app competition in Dusseldorf on November 17, 2015. Medica is the world’s largest medical trade fair, attracting nearly 5,000 exhibitors from 70 nations. The grand prize...

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