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A retired Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) general, who is currently one of the Iranian commanders leading Shi’ite troops in Syria, said in an interview last week that Iran has formed a Shi’ite army that seeks to destroy Israel by 2039, The Long War Journal reported on Wednesday. Brig. Gen. Mohammad Ali Falaki, who...

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The Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah is gaining valuable experience while “learning to fight on a large scale” in Syria, a former Shin Bet chief told a visiting delegation of U.S. congressional advisers on Monday, Israel Hayom reported. The warning came just days after Israel uncovered a bag of explosives near the Lebanese border, which...

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Iran-backed Shi’ite militias “detained, tortured and abused far more Sunni civilians” during the Iraqi government’s effort to recapture of the city of Fallujah than American officials have previously been willing to acknowledge, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Based on interviews with a combination of twenty survivors, tribal leaders, Iraqi politicians, and Western diplomats, Reuters...

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Mobileye, an Israel-based company that developed an accident avoidance system for cars, is partnering with the automotive parts manufacturer Delphi to develop an autonomous driving system by 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Both Delphi, which spun off from General Motors, and Mobileye currently produce sensors and software that manufacturers use to build autonomous vehicle...

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President Barack Obama changed his mind about launching a retaliatory strike against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces carried out a sarin gas attack that killed more than 1,400 people in August 2013, after Iran threatened to pull out of then-secret nuclear talks, the chief foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal said on Monday....

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Israeli security forces raided seven Palestinian-run West Bank weapons workshops early Tuesday morning, confiscating dozens of illegal guns. An IDF official told The Times of Israel that the operation, the largest of its sort this year thus far, was part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of illegal arms circulating in...

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Researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have unraveled the metastatic mechanism of melanoma, the most aggressive of all skin cancers. According to a paper published August 22 in the journal Nature Cell Biology, the scientists discovered that before spreading to other organs, a melanoma tumor sends out tiny vesicles containing...

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Weeks after returning home from a surprise visit to Jerusalem, Egypt’s foreign minister defended Israel from accusations of terrorism before a group of high school students who visited his Cairo office on Sunday. After one of the students asked Sameh Shoukry to explain why Israel and the United States are not considered...

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Today, more than half the fish consumed around the world is farm-grown. Most farms overcrowd the fish, feed them massive amounts of antibiotics, and treat them with hormones and pesticides. Yet despite concerns for human health and the environment, the aquaculture industry is growing an average of 6 percent annually...

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A year after the nuclear deal with Iran was reached, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have emerged as its biggest beneficiaries, Jay Solomon, the chief foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, wrote in an essay on Saturday. Khamenei achieved the major goals he wanted to...

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