The regime of Iran-backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has engaged in a systematic campaign of ethnically cleansing Sunnis from the capital of Damascus, in order to strengthen Assad’s hold on his strife-torn country and realize Iran’s ambition of creating a Shiite crescent in the Middle East, an analysis published Thursday by...

Israeli leaders commemorated the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks on Sunday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered words of support during his weekly cabinet meeting. “Today we mark 15 years since the terrorist attacks on 9/11,” he said. “We remember the victims. We embrace their loved ones. We...

Fatah, the political party led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, has nominated a man who murdered six Israelis to run for the Hebron City Council in (now-delayed) local elections, the watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch reported Thursday. “The number 2 candidate on the Fatah Movement list in the Hebron City...

Seventy-three Syrian aid groups have suspended their cooperation with the United Nations because of what they characterized as the world body’s “complacency” to the Syrian government’s “deliberate manipulation” of aid, The New York Times reported Thursday. The organizations announced their decision in a letter to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the...

JNS.org – Jew-baiting these days is a globally competitive field. The Middle East, Latin America, and Asia could all put up credible candidates for the title of most notorious Jew-baiter. But if you ask me, it’s in Europe, the continent where modern anti-Semitism crystallized, where you’ll still find the most able...

The $1.7 billion cash payment that the White House recently sent to Iran suggests that Washington may have transferred Tehran more than $33 billion in untraceable cash and precious metals since 2014, giving the Islamic Republic greater flexibility to launder money and finance terrorism, a sanctions expert told Congress on Thursday. In his testimony before the House Financial...

Owners of a popular cabaret club near New York’s Times Square regretfully canceled a scheduled benefit for the Black Lives Matter movement after affiliated organizations published a platform claiming that Israel was committing genocide, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The owners of Feinstein’s/54 Below e-mailed benefit ticket-holders informing them of...

The decision to disinvite an Israeli filmmaker from an upcoming film festival at Syracuse University reflects a change in tactics of the anti-Israel boycott campaign on campuses to “stealth boycotts,” Miriam Elman, an associate professor of political science at the university, wrote in an op-ed in Haaretz on Wednesday. Ben-Gurion University president...

Landmines are an international danger, but no country except Afghanistan suffers as much as Colombia, where last year landmines buried across the countryside killed 285 people, including 40 children. Over the past 25 years, more than 11,000 Colombians have been wounded or killed by landmines and other unexploded ordnance. So...

The U.S. sent Iran two previously unknown planeloads of cash, totaling $1.3 billion, in late January and early February, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday night, causing lawmakers to worry that the cash will be used to finance terrorism and destabilize the Middle East. The administration had already admitted to...