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Terrorism

At least 17 Jewish community centers across the United States received bomb threats on Tuesday, the third time this month that a wave of JCCs has received such threats on the same day. Among the JCCs targeted were those in Boulder, Colo.; Albany and Syracuse, N.Y.; West Orange, N.J.; Milwaukee,...

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MidEast

Saudi Arabia said Monday that Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacked one of its frigates off the coast of Yemen, killing two crew members and wounding three. According to the official Saudi Press Agency, the Saudi vessel was rammed by one of three gunboats that attacked it near the Yemeni port of Hodeida, the...

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MidEast

The United States will convene an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to address Iran’s latest ballistic missile launch, which defied a resolution adopted by the council to implement the nuclear deal. Newly confirmed U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley is expected to attend the gathering, Fox News...

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Featured

Newly-installed United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said on Sunday that Israel should not be discriminated against in the General Assembly. In an interview with Benny Avni of Israel’s Channel 2, Guterres said that in the General Assembly, “Israel needs to be considered as a state as the same as all the others with...

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Diplomacy

The Director General of Israel’s Foreign Ministry will arrive in Turkey on Tuesday for the first direct, bilateral talks between the two countries since a reconciliation agreement was signed last year, ending a six-year hiatus in diplomatic relations. Yuval Rotem will head the three-day Israeli delegation to Turkey, where they...

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Diplomacy

In a call Sunday with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, President Donald Trump acknowledged the “importance of rigorously enforcing” the nuclear deal with Iran and “of addressing Iran’s destabilizing regional activities,” according to a summary provided by the White House. During the call, Salman accepted a request from the president to establish...

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MidEast

The Palestinian Authority’s ruling party paid tribute to a Palestinian terrorist on the 15th anniversary of her deadly attack on Friday, celebrating that she became a suicide bomber so “that her pure body would explode into pieces in the Zionists’ faces,” Palestinian Media Watch reported Sunday. PMW Bulletin: #Fatah proud of suicide bomber: "Her pure...

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Diplomacy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Donald Trump on February 15, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer announced Monday. WH press secretary: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the US on February 15 https://t.co/FVDTJqPlCI https://t.co/lXRe4eaDgY — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 30, 2017 In announcing the prime minister’s...

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Iran

Iran carried out a ballistic missile test in violation of a United Nations resolution on Sunday, the first since President Donald Trump was inaugurated earlier this month, U.S. officials told Fox News on Monday. The launch involved a Khorramshahr medium-range ballistic missile, which the officials said flew for 600 miles before exploding in a...

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MidEast

Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are accusing one another of making politically-motivated arrests, with the Gaza-Basked terrorist group alleging on Sunday that four of its members are undergoing “extreme torture” at the hands of the PA in the West Bank. The charge comes days after Fatah, the main political party in the...

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