The United States representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) strongly condemned the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday. Ambassador Kenneth P. Ward called the chemical attack launched by the regime on the town of Khan Sheikhoun a “direct affront to the Chemical Weapons...

The Palestinian Authority suspended ties with the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) Thursday due to the agency’s plans to change its curriculum, which currently contains material inciting violence against Israelis. The PA’s Education Ministry called the possible reforms “an affront to the Palestinian people, its history and struggles.” “The...

Thousands of Gazan high school students recently graduated from a training program run by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, which prepares teenagers to participate in urban warfare. “This program  is held in schools throughout Gaza and is supervised by the national security forces,” a Hamas spokesman said in a video translated by the Middle East...

Iran’s support of the Syrian regime in the wake of a gas attack against civilians in northern Syria raises questions about its own chemical weapons program, a research fellow at the Foundation for Foundation of Democracies wrote Wednesday in the New York Daily News. Iran has enabled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s “chemical and barrel bombing war...

Russia vetoed a draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday that would have condemned last week’s alleged chemical attack in Syria and demanded that the Syrian regime cooperate with international investigators. The resolution was drafted and proposed by the United States, United Kingdom, and France, who responded...

Senior first-aid instructors and paramedics Eliaz Mor and Amir Namyot from Magen David Adom – Israel’s national emergency-response organization – are spending two weeks in India training instructors from the Indian Red Cross. This is part of a joint project among MDA, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),...

Turkey’s health minister confirmed on Tuesday that sarin gas was used in a recent chemical weapons attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in northern Syria. Blood and urine sample taken from victims of the attack, which the United States has blamed on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, indicated...

Russia must choose between partnering with the United States or the Iranian axis, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said at a meeting of the G7 nations in Italy on Tuesday. “We want to relieve the suffering of the Syrian people. Russia can be a part of that future and...

A South African youth leader has strongly rebuked the charge that Israel is an apartheid state and called on activists to stop appropriating the term when describing its conflict with the Palestinians, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Nkululeko Nkosi, 23, is a member of Africans for Peace, a self-described “collective of independent students,...

The Islamic State’s branch in the Sinai Peninsula claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on a southern Israeli community on Monday, shortly before the beginning of the Passover holiday. “The fighters of the Islamic State have bombed the Jewish settlement in southern Palestine with a Grad rocket,” Sinai Province declared in...