Iran has executed at least 20 people since the re-election of President Hassan Rouhani on May 19, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies reported Wednesday. This grim statistic mirrors the record of Rouhani’s first term in office, when the regime carried out some 3,000 executions. In fact, Rouhani’s four-year record...

The U.K. election is over and Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May has failed in a spectacular fashion to win a majority. The result has been announced as a hung parliament, meaning that not a single party can govern alone. May met with the Queen to seek permission to form a minority government...

Two men were arrested earlier this month for planning attacks against Israeli and American targets, including New York City’s JFK International Airport, on behalf of the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, The New York Times reported Thursday. The Justice Department announced the arrests of Ali Kourani, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally...

Israelis are wild about their “homegrown hero” Gal Gadot, star of the blockbuster Wonder Woman movie that opened last week, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. The enthusiasm for Gadot can be seen across the country, including on a Wonder Woman billboard ad by Tel Aviv’s main highway that reads, “we love you.”...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday wished Israel’s Muslim citizens and Muslims around the world a “Ramadan kareem,” or “generous Ramadan,” in honor of the Islamic holy month. The prime minister expressed his pride that an increasing number of his country’s more than one million Muslim citizens “are integrating...

The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah on Wednesday threatened to strike U.S. positions inside Syria if it crosses any “red lines,” the Associated Press reported. The Lebanese group released a video claiming to show an American drone tailed by an Iranian one over eastern Syria, depicting it as evidence that it could...

Top Israeli and American political leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, participated in a joint celebration of the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem’s reunification on Wednesday. The event was broadcast simultaneously from the U.S. Capitol building in Washington and the Knesset in Jerusalem, marking...

The IDF Chief of Staff has used two public appearances this week to highlight the threat from Hezbollah and the ongoing Syrian conflict. At a memorial event yesterday for soldiers killed in the 2006 Second Lebanon War, Gadi Eisenkot said: “Hezbollah is in a very complex strategic reality. A third...

The general election taking place in the United Kingdom today is not a normal election. We are on uncharted territory with the main opposition party running with a candidate for prime minister who is a threat to our national security — no, I am not exaggerating. Jeremy Corbyn over recent...

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