MidEast

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, declaring a national emergency because of rising tensions with Iran, announced Friday the sale of over $8 billion worth of weapons to Arab allies in the Middle East to “help these nations to deter and defend themselves from the Islamic Republic.” Invoking a rarely used...

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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) announced Tuesday a full statutory investigation against the British Labour Party over its failure to stamp out anti-Semitism in its ranks and to investigate if the party had “unlawfully discriminated” against people because they are Jewish. The party’s current leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has...

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The IDF confirmed Monday that a Syrian anti-aircraft position has fired at one of its fighter jets during a routine mission within Israeli airspace. The strike occurred near Quneitra in southern Syria, close to the Israeli border on the Golan Heights. In response, the Israeli military bombed the launcher that...

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More than 1,000 wildfires raged through Israel over a scorching hot weekend, destroying 50 homes and burning through almost 2,000 acres of forest land. The fires, which broke out on Thursday, mainly centered around the Ben Shemen Forest near Ben-Gurion International Airport. Two communities were badly hit – the village...

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Nuclear experts said Monday that Iran has quadrupled its uranium enrichment production capacity amid tensions with the U.S. over Tehran’s illicit nuclear and non-nuclear activities. This means the Islamic Republic could quickly exceed the stockpile limit set under the 2015 nuclear accord. While Iranian officials stressed that the uranium would...

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The British Labour Party’s controversial leader, Jeremy Corbyn, defended “salient points” made in an infamous speech by former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling for the annihilation of the State of Israel. In a 2005 firebrand address to students in Tehran, Ahmadinejad praised “the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine…[which] will...

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