Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas praised a Jordanian man who was shot while attempting to stab Israeli Border Police officers, calling him a “martyr” in a condolence letter to his family this week. The attacker, Saeed Amro, approached the police officers with a knife at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s...

The Anti-Defamation League expressed its “deep concern” on Tuesday that a new course at the University of California, Berkeley would present students “with blatantly biased views towards Zionism and Israel as fact.” The student-led, one-credit course, called “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis,” derides Zionism—the movement for Jewish national self-determination—as “settler colonialism” and falsely...

Police shot and wounded a man wielding an 11-inch knife who approached the Israeli embassy in Ankara, Turkey, CNN reported Wednesday. The man, identified by authorities only as Osman Nuri C., approached the embassy carrying a bag and and the knife. He was warned to stop by a police officer who...

The United States believes that Russian warplanes were responsible for the bombing of an aid convoy in Syria shortly after a ceasefire came to an end, government sources told CNN Wednesday. “All the evidence we have points to that conclusion,” one of the officials said. “All of our information indicates...

Iranian leaders’ recent statements about the country’s nuclear program suggest that it is not strictly intended for civilian purposes, which would mean that the world must impose restrictions on Iran’s nuclear-related purchases, a former high-level official of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) wrote on Sunday. Mohammad-Javad Larijani, a foreign policy advisor to Supreme...

The University of California, Berkeley has reinstated a course that aims to examine the history of Israel and the Palestinian territories “through the lens of settler colonialism” on Monday, less than a week after it was suspended over concerns that it amounted to political indoctrination. The one-credit, student-led class, titled...

A banner at an Iranian military parade Wednesday threatened to “turn Tel Aviv and Haifa to Dust,” The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. Iran held military parades across the country to commemorate the start of the 1980 war with Iraq. At the Tehran parade, which was shown on state television, a banner on...

A Lebanese-born permanent resident of the United States was sentenced by an Iranian revolutionary court to ten years in prison for spying, The Guardian reported Tuesday. Nizzar Zakka, an internet freedom activist, disappeared last September after attending a conference in Tehran. His arrest was first reported in November. Zakka had been invited by one...

A bipartisan bill to impose sanctions on Syria was derailed by the White House, which pressured Democratic leadership to delay introducing the bill to the full House of Representatives, Josh Rogin of The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Members of Congress and their aides had been preparing to introduce the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act...

The Israel Air Force shot down a drone launched by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, the army said Tuesday. WATCH: Footage of Hamas drone which was shot down by an IAF fighter jet earlier today. pic.twitter.com/MBPWjp9y2Y — IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) September 20, 2016 The drone had been “under IAF surveillance from...