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Iran

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi issued a decree on Thursday which formalizes the Iranian-backed Hashd al-Shaabi militia, also known as Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), as a force under the command of the country’s security forces. Rudaw, a Kurdish news site, reported that the directive will grant to Hashd al-Shaabi many...

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Europe

A report released by an activist who exposes anti-Semitism shows that Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn belonged to an anti-Semitic Facebook group for over a year prior to his election to lead the Labour Party in 2015, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. The activist and researcher, David Collier, showed...

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Featured

A pregnant Syrian woman was facing an impossible decision- her own death or the death of her unborn child.  She decided to save both by entering Israel to be treated at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.  The decision paid off when she returned home on Tuesday with a new healthy...

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MidEast

Syrian military forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have continued their offensive against rebel forces in eastern Ghouta. The Syrian Army is poised to cut the city in two as troops advancing from the east link up with those from the west. According to the United Kingdom based Syrian Observatory...

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Israel

For decades, scientists have been asking questions about Jupiter’s famous stripes. Are the colorful bands, caused by belts of strong winds circling the planet, just a pretty surface phenomenon, or are they a significant stratum of the planet? New findings suggest that the stripes extend to a depth much deeper...

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Iran

Argentina’s former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will go to trial on charges that she participated in the cover-up of Iranian officials involved in the 1994 terror attack in a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Ben Cohen reported for The Algemeiner Tuesday. In a 26-page ruling by Judge Claudio Bonadio...

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Iran

The general who formerly headed Syria’s chemical weapons program before defecting in 2013 said that Iran’s proxy Hezbollah has a store of chemical weapons and that Iran itself is testing missiles with chemical warheads, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. General Sha’arq Zuhair al-Saqit, who defected from Syria when ordered to...

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Diplomacy

American and Israeli forces launched operation “Juniper Cobra” on Tuesday, a two-week joint military training exercise bringing together more than 4,500 service personnel from the IDF and the United States military’s European Command (USEUCOM). The Marine Corps Times reported that the U.S. dispatched over 2,500 service members to the training,...

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A video released earlier this week shows Hamas stealing electricity from power lines meant for civilians the IDF said. The Times of Israel reported Sunday that Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, who serves as the coordinator of government activities in the territories (COGAT), posted the video on his Facebook page showing...

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MidEast

The head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force has claimed Iran has tripled its ballistic missile production. Amir Ali Hajizadeh appeared to reject reports of negotiations to limit Iran’s ballistic missile program, saying: “The law of the world is the hands of the United States, Britain, France...

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