District Courts in Tel Aviv and Lod sentenced two Palestinians on Monday for the murder and attempted murder of civilians in terrorist attacks last year. Raed Khalil bin Mahmoud, 36, from Dura in the West Bank was convicted in July for the murders of Reuven Aviram, 51, and Aharon Yesiav, 32, in...

Highly radioactive material was stolen from Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, including a supply of iridium-192, an unstable isotope that can be used to manufacture dirty bombs, the London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported on Friday. A dirty bomb combines radioactive material with conventional explosives in order to contaminate the area...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was unanimously chosen to lead the Fatah party for another five years at a convention that excluded his political opponents, further strengthening his hold on the party while cementing the rifts in the Palestinian polity. Excluded from the conference were supporters of Mohammed Dahlan, an Abbas...

President Barack Obama should break with American diplomatic practice and use the United Nations Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state, former president Jimmy Carter wrote Tuesday in The New York Times. Carter noted that United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which was passed in the wake of the 1967 Six-Day War...

The son of a late Iranian grand ayatollah was sentenced to prison on Sunday for releasing a recording of his father condemning the thousands of summary executions carried out in the Islamic Republic in the late 1980s, Voice of America reported. Ahmad Montazeri, the son of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, was...

An Iranian naval vessel aimed a gun at a U.S. Navy helicopter flying over international waters on Saturday, continuing Tehran’s pattern of aggressive behavior since the implementation of the nuclear deal, Reuters reported. The encounter, which occurred when a Navy MH-60 helicopter flew within a half mile of two Iranian...

The Iraqi parliament recently passed a law allowing Iran-backed Shiite militias to keep their command structure in place, raising concerns among the country’s Sunni leaders, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. “The legislation legally empowers the militias and makes them ultimately answerable to Iraq’s prime minister, but it also allows groups that have...

Iranian warnings against the passage of the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) reflect “a broader strategy” in pursuit of additional sanctions relief, Benham Ben Taleblu, a senior analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in a policy brief on Saturday. The ISA was originally passed in 1996, targeting Iran’s energy sector and expanding U.S. secondary...

The Israeli military bombed a facility belonging to an Islamic State-affiliated group in the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Monday, a day after it killed four of the group’s fighters in a retaliatory airstrike. Israel Air Force jets hit a former United Nations structure that had served as...

Israeli officials have reported that the fires that raged in the country’s central and northern regions last week were largely brought under control, and that they are now focusing on determining the source of the blazes and the damage caused. Yoram Levy, the spokesman for Israel’s fire and rescue services,...