The State Prosecutor’s Office in Jerusalem announced on Tuesday that the Palestinian man who killed a British student on Good Friday is fit to stand trial. The announcement followed a psychiatric assessment of Jamil Tamimi, 57, who stabbed and killed Hannah Bladon, 20, on the light rail in Jerusalem. A...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad circumvented a 2013 deal to dismantle his chemical weapons stockpile by failing to declare the full extent of his arsenal, Syria’s former chemical weapons research chief told The Telegraph on Saturday. Brigadier-General Zaher al-Sakat, who served as the head of chemical warfare in a top Syrian military unit...

The newest LUMAS gallery in Tel Aviv is bringing the best of the photography world to the Israeli art scene. LUMAS Tel Aviv opened its doors this month, joining other top art cities like Berlin, Amsterdam, Toronto, New York, Melbourne, Zurich and others as a location for this award-winning franchise...

Seeking new tactics to better tackle Islamic extremism, United States Defense Secretary James Mattis began traveling across the Middle East and North Africa on Tuesday. His journey includes stops with close allies Israel and Saudi Arabia, and new partners like Djibouti. The Pentagon first announced the trip last week, saying...

Recent remarks by a Bahraini cleric exiled to Iran underscore the Islamic Republic’s influence in that Gulf Arab state, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Delivering a eulogy at a funeral of a Shiite militant killed in an exchange of fire with Bahraini security forces, Murtada al-Sanadi said, “The choice of resistance is widening and...

Iran was crucial in helping Syria develop its chemical weapons program, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies wrote Monday. “What the rapid-fire news cycle didn’t say early this month was that Tehran and Damascus jump-started a program to develop a sophisticated Syrian chemicals arsenal as early as 2004,” Benjamin...

Marwan Barghouti, the convicted Palestinian terror chief who recently published a controversial op-ed denouncing Israel in The New York Times, does not have a place “among free people” and should not be given a platform to whitewash his murderous crimes, the brother of one of Barghouti’s victims said Tuesday. Jamal...

On May 7, 2017, the Israeli nonprofit Modern Agriculture Foundation is bringing together international food-tech industry experts, government representatives, academics, and students to drive the “clean meat” movement from small-scale production to mass production on a global scale. Clean meat, also called cultured meat, is real meat grown from animal...

Yemen’s government launched a military operation on Sunday to clear naval mines planted by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in and near the strategic Bab al-Mandeb strait, Al Arabiya reported. The mines are “believed to have been sourced from Iran” and “threaten fisherman and residents of island near the coasts of...

A militant belonging to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas was killed Sunday night in a tunnel collapse underneath Gaza City, Israeli media reported. Three other militants were also injured in the cave-in. Another member of Hamas died in a tunnel collapse this past February. Hamas, an Islamist terror group openly dedicated...