MidEast

Ezra Schwartz, a teenager from Sharon, Massachusetts, was identified as the American killed in a terror attack near Alon Shvut in the West Bank on Thursday, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported. Schwartz, 18, was one of three people killed Thursday near the settlement of Alon Shvut. He reportedly was studying for a...

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A video of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind behind the Paris terror attacks last week, showed a clip of him saying that it would be “nice to see … the blood of infidels.” An ISIS-made video, which was uncovered by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), is embedded below. It shows Abaaoud, also...

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After a soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands was cancelled on Tuesday due to a bomb threat, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency said that his country should respond to terror like Israel does, Ynet reported on Wednesday. Hans-Georg Maassen, president of Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, observed in...

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The latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran’s nuclear program raises concerns about the U.N. watchdog’s ability to verify Tehran’s compliance with the nuclear deal, according to an analysis (.pdf) published by the Institute for Science and International Security on Wednesday. The institute reviewed the process by which...

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Two people were killed and one injured in a Palestinian stabbing attack in southern Tel Aviv on Thursday, shortly before three others were killed and at least five others were wounded in a shooting and car ramming attack in the West Bank. In Tel Aviv, a 36-year-old Palestinian assaulted his victims as they were...

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King Abdullah II of Jordan warned Tuesday that humanity is “facing a third world war” due to the threat of ISIS, Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday. “We are facing a third world war against humanity and this is what brings us all together,” he told a press conference. “This is a war, as...

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