Iran is commanding a “foreign legion” of about 25,000 Shiite militiamen in Syria, the former head of the Shin Bet said on Wednesday. The Shiite fighters, mostly from Afghanistan and Pakistan, “are fighting in Syria only against the rebels and not against ISIS,” Avi Dichter, now the chairman of the...

The internationally acclaimed Israeli thriller Hatufim has been adapted for Indian television as a limited run series called POW – Bandi Yuddh Ke (Prisoners of War), Reuters reported Thursday. As with the Israeli original, which was also the basis for the hit American show Homeland, the drama will focus on two soldiers who return home...

Oftentimes, it’s the organizations that you’ve never heard of that have the most far-reaching impact on your life. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation makes sure that power companies work together to prevent blackouts. The Unicode Consortium approves global standards for electronic text—including every emoji. And the conglomerate AB InBev...

Thousands of Iranians commemorated the takeover of the American embassy in 1979 by marching through the streets of Tehran shouting “Death to America” and “Death to the House of Saud,” Agence France-Presse reported Thursday. Speaking to the crowd outside the former American embassy, Hossein Salami, the deputy commander of Iran’s...

An Iranian general said that his country’s elite military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), will be in the United States and Europe “very soon,” the Washington Free Beacon reported Wednesday, citing Iranian media. “The whole world should know that the IRGC will be in the U.S. and Europe very...

Citibank announced Tuesday that it was not sponsoring the upcoming concert tour of Pink Floyd co-founder and Israel-boycott advocate Roger Waters, adding that the bank had “no plans to work with this artist in the future,” the Algemeiner reported. The banking giant issued the denial in a letter responding to a shareholder concerned about...

A European plan to allow an Iranian airline sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury to fly commercial routes to European and Asian cities has drawn sharp objections from Washington, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. European officials have pushed back against requests to join the U.S. in blocking Mahan Air’s financial network, a U.S. Treasury official...

A group of 176 faculty members and 47 civic organizations called on the president of the University of California system to stop anti-Israel propagandists from “using the classroom as a pulpit for anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist political advocacy and activism” on Tuesday, six weeks after UC Berkeley suspended and later reinstated a controversial anti-Israel course. Nearly 600 UC alumni...

How did a small Israeli company get to design CMRA, the first camera band accessory for the Apple Watch? “When we started playing with the first line of smartwatches in 2013, we realized that we were close to the future of communication but it needed a camera to come to fruition,”...

The recent arrest of World Vision’s top Gaza official, who admitted to diverting millions of dollars to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, underscores several problems plaguing the international charity’s operations in the Middle East, the watchdog group NGO Monitor wrote in a report published Wednesday. The arrest of Mohammad el-Halabi in August...